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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This guy out of his depth...Funnily enough I always manage to blag my way through things, but that doesn't matter.
One time, long ago, I was a sixth former, and sitting in the common room, a wannabe hard-,man asks me "oi, wot yoo lookin' at?", now i'm wearing shades and am somewhat bemused as to his assumption that i'm looking at him, this questioning goes on for a while, and I end up telling him where to go.
So he picks up a chair, now being renowned at my sixth form as an assassin/spy/convict/general nutcase, I pull out from my bag, a scalpel and the chain I usually use to lock up my bike, three teachers come marching out of the sixth form office, disarm him, and completely ignoring me, march him away... Scary what you can get away with when you've got a strange reputation.
(, Wed 20 Oct 2004, 15:30, Reply)
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