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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My career as a dictatorI went to a primary school with a very small student population and at one point was the only person in my year to be in "white" house for sports day. Being the oldest by about a year, this made me house captain by default. I should point out, this is like putting the Tellytubbies in charge of the Treasury. I neither play, nor enjoy, any field sport whatsoever.
However, being an arrogant little shit, I hand-picked a junior football team anyway and proceeded to hold a pre-match pep talk. I didn't know what any of their questions even meant, especially when they began with references to a Premiership of whose existence I had only the vaguest awareness.
Needless to say, I was rumbled within a day and deposed, by general consensus, in favour of a gang of three girls from the year below me. The shame.
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pineapplecharm D d M Y, H:i, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 10:11,
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