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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scariest moment of my life...Spent all two years of my English GCSE course doing absolutely bugger all preparation for coursework etc.
Got to the spoken assignment, kept putting it off for weeks, intended to take the day off. Sadly I have no sense of time and totally forgot the day of speaking was upon us.
And I realised I had fuck all to talk about, no notes and a phobia of public speaking. Plus the girl I fancied was sat at the back of the class watching me.
Name got called, I grabbed my mate's book, turned to a page with writing on and bullshitted for 10 minutes to everyone.
Got a B- but bloody hell it was close.
(, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 21:43, Reply)
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