Impersonating Elvis
Back in about March this year a note went round my office announcing a Charity Star In Their Eyes competition. Me and a mate thought it would be a 'laugh' to do The Proclaimers 500 Miles song. However as the night neared we hadn't practiced at all and fearing a total balls-up, we decided to tell the guy organising it. By this time he'd gone to the length of hiring a local theatre and sold god knows how many tickets to a baying crowd of co-workers and their families (about 300 in total) and acts were pulling out in their droves. He was down to 7 acts. In a moment of blind charity myself, I said I COULD possibly do something on my own. He didn't attempt to talk me out of it and I stood there calling myself a symathetic twat. So anyway, about a week later I find myself metaphorically soiling myself, standing behind a stage curtain, underneath a small bridge of balloons with dry ice smoke pouring out onto a stage, dressed up as Elvis and about to sing Guitar Man to a crowd of people, most of whom I didn't know but a lot of whom I did. I remember standing there and couldn't for the life of me put together the series of bad decisions that had led me to be in such a situation. Easily the dumbest thing i've done. Oh apart from getting busted for drink driving, shagging my boss's missus, drinking a whole bottle of Tequila in one night and a few other isolated events.
( Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 1:02, Reply)