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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Monged outWas about 15 and thought getting myself into the school play would be a good way out of double science (physics specifically). Lines learnt and the rehearsals go fine and I'd thought I'd mastered acting...
1 day before the play opens we get to perform the play to about 200 tards from the 'speshul' school down the road.
Theres something about 200 people looking at you drooling and crapping themselves that completely wipes your mind of everything. I forgot all my lines, and ended up having them mouthed to me by a very disappointed teacher. Still manged to get em wrong. The next day, when it actually opened they actually wrote my lines down and made me take them on stage!
Have been terrified of tards since.
Woo - My first post!
(, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 15:06, Reply)
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