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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Fourth grade band...Once in class, the teacher found me playing the theme to Star Wars on a xylophone. Assuming I was some sort of expert he thrust a booklet of sheet music in my hand, entitled "The Score from Star Wars" and told me to play it at the concert THE NEXT DAY...SOLO (no pun intended).
The problem is, I'd simply memorized ONE LINE of the Star Wars theme, and couldn't actually read music.
Friday night I'm all dressed up on stage. Hundreds of parents and students staring at me. He waved the baton.
DING DING DOK.
I played three notes of a vaguely Chinese-sounding song, then sat down.
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Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Sun 17 Oct 2004, 8:54,
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