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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Way out of my depth....Moved to Melbourne, got a job with a dodgy "Consultancy" and was asked to "just show some slides about the GST (VAT) to some members of staff at a Transport Company. So I turn up, all prepared, Got the puter and projector set up, called IT for access to SAP, got it. People start milling in, then more people, then the Financial Director, then The CEO. FUCKING HELL!!! I thought, ok what would Anthony Robbins do here? So I did the only honourable thing a freshly landed English lad would say in Australia, I said, "Before we start, does anybody know what this GST is about? Some guy said "Yes" so I said "Over to you" and got me coat!!! I went straight to the office called them a shower of cunts for landing me in it and resigned!!
(, Sat 16 Oct 2004, 6:37, Reply)
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