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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Anaemia?My course at (generic Midlands) University is English and French, 3 boys, 22 girls. While this has its obvious upsides (of which I take regular advantage) it has the downside that half are boring sods who stay at home and give you odd looks when you Stella-talk to them in the union.
Was sending an e-mail to someone on the course - a 'non-amaemic' - as a reply to one of their mass e-mails to everyone on the group. They had suggested a group meeting at a club or something, and I was saying back something like 'how many anaemics do you think will turn up?'
I think I realised that I'd hit 'reply all' instead of 'reply' about four milliseconds before my mouse button clicked 'send'.
And ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that sinking feeling still makes me criiiiiiiinge.....
(, Tue 19 Oct 2004, 15:03, Reply)
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