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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When I was about 9 or 10, in my first year of middle schoolI had a crush on a girl in my class. Naturally, I asked her out. And not quite grasping that no means no, I kept on asking, several times over the next few days.
Next thing I know I get called to the head of the year's office and she informs me that said girl's parents have written to her claiming I am sexually harrassing the girl. As if that wasn't bad enough, I was then frogmarched back to my class where I had to stand in front of everyone and apologise for sexually harrassing her.
Needless to say it was a few years before I asked a girl out again.
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Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Sun 17 Oct 2004, 22:07,
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