Was at school.
Maybe year 2.
Show and Tell Day.
Very important day in Year 2. Public speaking. Time to shine. That sort of thing.
Anyway, got to school. Show and Tell starts. Go to my bag and realize I have nothing to show, or tell!
Pretend I have to go to the toilet so that I can sit for a minute and try to think of a solution.
Nothing comes to mind.
Head back, panic stricken.
Went back to my school bag and eventually decided to improvise by emptying my lunch box out and carrying it up to the line with me.
I held it behind my back so that no one could see what a lame show and tell I had but of course that made whatever I was hiding that much more exciting for my peers, and my teacher even made a point of saying she could not wait to see what I had to show because it was making so much noise. (I was trying to put the lid back on it while it was still behind my back - Must have sounded cool)
Anyway, of course it gets to my turn and I present my awesome red banged up old stinky lunch box and the looks I got from both teacher and students was one of such utter disappointment.
I was so so so embarrassed because I was normally such a good show and tell girl.
It took about 3.7 agonizing minutes of me stuttering away about my old manky lunch box, including the part where I made a point of talking about the type of pen I had used to write my name on it and using up at least 38 seconds pealing the bit of grape skin off the lid before my teacher reminded me that I had just been to Grafton for the school holidays to visit relatives and maybe I would like to talk about that instead....
Um.... yeah..... ok.
Sigh.
Ummmm......sad sad sad damn it
14 hours ago