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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Three day hangoverWhen I was at university I was living in halls and one of my flatmates was a rather nice muslim chap from Malaysia. He made it clear to me he had no intention of staying devout to his religion when he arrived in the UK. One night he decided to treat us to a carry out. Unfortunatly his lack of alcohol knowledge caused a few problems. He assumed bottles of Smirnoff and Jack Daniels were the same as bottles of Carlsberg and Stella. So he turns up with several botlles of both and we tuck in.
Oh dear!!!! We were absolutely shit faced in a way I had never been before or ever hope to be again. I conked out on the floor of the living room in my own vomit and found myself stuck to the floor when I woke up in the morning. Not that I wanted to get up, as I was suffering from the hangover from hell. It took three days to recover fully from that experience. I learnt an important lesson that day, never ever down pints of vodka and whisky mixed together.
In case your wondering my Malaysain friend suffered far, far worse than me and surprisingly it didn't turn him off the booze. I didn't drink for several months afterwards.
(, Sat 16 Oct 2004, 2:09, Reply)
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