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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out of my depth? i wasn't even in the same pool.Decided to try out for the hurdles at school. Mainly because nobody else would do it and partly because I was a cocky shite. I won by default and became the number 1 hurdler in the school. So they let me try out for the county.
3 lads. 110 metres. 9 hurdles. On your marks. Get set.
Go.
I've never been so utterly humiliated in my life. I looked like Christopher Reeve (after he died) in comparison to the two other superhuman athletes they had pitted me against.
My teacher (Mr. Walker - hands permanently down trousers as PE teachers are wont to do) was nice about it. He said, "Never mind, at least you came third in the county."
I took heart from this until a few weeks later when I was talking about it with some mates and he walked over. I said, "Yeah, I came third in the county", feeling all impressed with myself and expecting him to back me up. Then he piped up with "No you didn't, you came last. By miles. You cunt." Well, he didnt say the cunt bit, but it was implied.
I hated him after that.
Burned his house down and murdered his hamster*
*may be lies
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mrlogic is copying your beard, Tue 19 Oct 2004, 13:31,
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