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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Went to Strasbourg,Went to the European Parliament. Decided it would be a good idea for me to volunteer to make a speech in front of the 500-or-so people assembled there about European politics. Decided it would likewise be a good idea to let two other people write the speech for me. Decided it would be a fantastic idea to let them write it in German (being German, it was easier for them). I therefore had no notes I could understand. Result: "Uh, we should introduce more, uh, political, um, er... things"...
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Pretender, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 21:26,
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