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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Bob the builderMany moons ago, on finishing a sort of education I got myself a job as a trainee Surveryor with t'local council.
Now this job sent me to college every Wednesday to study the enthralling 'Building Studies'. What this entailed I don't know as Wednesdays became a good opportunity to do ANYTHING other than go to college.And to my surprise I got away with this for about five months. Then came a test. And obviously I knew nothing. And wrote as much on the exam paper.
Decided that such was my 'up to my neck in it' that it might be best to leave the job before they got the results....
(, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 8:18, Reply)
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