School Story:
Whenever I am speaking in front of large audiences, I can always calm my nerves thinking of the time I had to give a speech in Mrs. Hunt's class. Ryan Whitmore & Paul Brennan were determined to make me lose my composure during this speech, presumably because I routinely attempted the same tactic during their speeches. After enduring no less than four consecutive minutes of lewd gestures, facial expressions, and mimed sexual innuendoes, I finally succumbed to laughter; Paul had stood on his desk and mooned me with his bare bottom just beyond the scope of Mrs. Hunt's peripheral vision (or did she actually see this?). Having survived this baptism of fire in speech class, I have found that public speaking has been relatively straightforward, though admittedly mundane, in the absence of exposed backsides.
