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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Repeated regurgitationI am a total lightweight..
First year, first week of uni - I decide that I am on form and go to the student bar, I am then asked to take part in a drinking competition as I have been blagging about my drinking prowess,(to try and impress the bar tender).
In the next few hours I get wasted, I don't remember leaving but am told that I collapsed in the street and am then carried home by some stranger that was walking past. I throw up all down his back. Then back at student halls - everyone is coming back from the pub and I am still unable to walk or talk. They think I should have my stomach pumped. So off I go in the ambulance, as I still have not found my legs they put me in a wheel chair. I am fucking wheeled out of the hall with everyone watching me.
The next part I do remember - I wake up in the hospital and decide to discharge myself (not that sort of discharge). I am still drunk and stagger back to halls wearing only the hospital robe, to find that I don't have my keys, wallet or phone.
I spent an entire year getting ridiculed by people I barley know.
Apologies for length.
(, Fri 15 Oct 2004, 17:03, Reply)
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