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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Drowning is fun!When I was 4 or 5 I couldn't touch bottom below the slide in the neighborhood pool, but my 6 year-old neighbor could... on tiptoes. I thought it would be a good idea to have her stand at the bottom of the slide and catch me as I came careening down. Of course we both went under, had to be dragged out by the lifeguards.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had poor water saftey assumptions when I was young.
Some years later, I was 12 I think, I thought putting my hair over my face while I tanned instead of putting on sunscreen would prevent me from burning. I was burned in a zebra-fashion on the face for a week.
(, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 18:35, Reply)
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