Out of my depthAs a schoolkid, I signed up for a public speaking contest purely as a ruse to meet girls. It haunts me still: in front of 300 people, I started to speak, dried up, stood there for what felt like half an hour staring at the floor and then slowly walked back to my seat. Oh, and the girl I liked laughed.
Have you ever been utterly, completely, devastatingly out of your depth?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 15:07)
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Oh the humiliation.In the first year of secondary school I volunteered to sing in a Christmas show, I believe i was motivated by testosterone. Anyway I had one hours practice of the song and was deemed ready to perform infront of around two hundred. As I sat on the stage I got more and more nervous and by the time it was my turn I was a quivering ball of flesh, after falling down the steps from the stage I was ready to die but I perserved only to faint into the lap of the headmaster during the first chorus. Needless to say I moved county.
(, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 18:03, Reply)
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