I don’t remember ever having stage fright per se, but there was a time when I completely did not know the lines that I was supposed to be reciting. I don’t think that it was necessarily that I was afraid to say them and I like tensed and I forgot them. I think that I just never really learned them. It was my senior year in college and it wasn’t a very big presentation or performance. I don’t even know what you would call it. But we as seniors in the German program had to present a, a reading basically. We had to memorize some sort of text in German and basically perform it in front of a fairly small group of people but still a, a group of people. And, I remember I was just so done with school at that point. It was right at the end of my senior year and I was done. And I remember not really putting in very much effort to actually learn this piece that I was supposed to learn and it was kind of a fun — it wasn’t a dry like text or it was — I’m not even gonna say it correctly, Struwwelpeter?
I can’t even remember what it was. But it was this — I mean, it was kind of a children’s story but like a very, very creepy adult children’s story. And I just didn’t know it, like, I just did not know it. And I went up there and I — like I said, I don’t think I was — I don’t think I had stage fright or I don’t think I was really afraid to say it and I kind of just stood up there, like I really don’t know this. And somebody else who was clearly a much better student that I was at that point. I think she had either learned the same thing or she — maybe we’d practiced it. I don’t — somehow she kind of knew what I was supposed to say, so she was like trying to help me along with it to kinda prompt me so that it would maybe cue me into actually saying the proper thing. But it, it never — it didn’t. Like I really just did not do well with it at all. I don’t remember if we were graded on it or what this really was but oh my gosh, I, I just really bombed it.