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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Oh, and...There was the time when I had to look after a group of about 10 Russian kids (since I was about 10 we've had a Belarussian orphan stay with us for a month every year). At 16 and with no grasp of the russian language, I decided it would be good to try and ask them what they wanted to eat using hand gestures and crude drawings. As I began they went into fits of hysterics. Ok, my drawing wasn't that great, but there's nothing more humiliating than 10 Russian kids, a good 3 years younger than you, laughing and pointing in your general direction. I wasn't amused and stormed off. They trashed the house. I got a bollocking. They got ice cream. Still, they're orphans, so I can't be angry with them.
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mrlogic is copying your beard, Tue 19 Oct 2004, 13:48,
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