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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Virign Radio c. 1992I was about 12, and really faniced this girl in my class. I went so far as to write her anonymous poems.
Anyhoo, Nick Abbott was doing his phone-in show on Virgin Radio, and silly me phoned up to talk about my infatuation with this girl.
Nick proceeded to take the complete piss out of me and I clammed up, pretended that I had got cut off I shut up and just listened as Nick said to me "I know you're still there, I can hear you breathing".
I promptly hung up. Next day practically the whole school (including the girl I liked) had listened to me and my life was hell.
I have never phoned another radio show, and never will.
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just mike, Sat 16 Oct 2004, 13:14,
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