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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No.I am the one who shows other people up :D
...except this one time at school (Well I say ONE time, I mean the one time out of hundreds over the space of 5 years that I'm going to tell you about) when we each had to divide into groups of people with the same hobby and each group had to do an assmebly to the rest of the year about their hobby.
Me and the class mong were the only two people who did archery.
I was 13, and by this time truely, madly and deeply in love with Gemma Legget. Come the time of our assembly, she's sat front row centre, 3 feet in front of me, looking up at me.
It's not so much that I choked, more that we hadn't done an iota of planning. We stood up, looking like cute white fluffy baby rabbits in the headlights of a dirty great 18-wheeler. I nudged him in the ribs, he nudged me, and we sat back down.
She wouldn't even look at me.
She went out with Liam McPhee, who beat the shit out of me when I spilt lemonade over his art project.
Still, I'm cool now, though! :D
(, Fri 15 Oct 2004, 1:27, Reply)
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