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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Learning to paraglide in australiaYou do stuff in the classroom, some stuff on a shallow slope with very little danger.
Then you do a tandem flight to see if you really do want to fly.
Then you get to do solo flights and you need about 25-30 of them with lots more classroom before you get the license.
well - I start the solo flights where basically a bloke with a radio on the top of the mountain says left, right, etc and halfway thru a bloke on the ground does the same.
1200 foot up in the air, first solo flight, hanging underneath bits of string and a piece of cloth, radio stops working....
now thats out of your depth..
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pregnantfridge, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 15:41,
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