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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am just like you! I think I have blanked out most uncomfortable moments. I also forget everyone's name, which is unfortunate because I remember faces, so I know that I know someone, I just don't know what their name is. This happens with people I've met several times.

I am not like you in that I don't have a darling wife. Which is unfortunate, because my apartment could really use some unpaid labor.

I remember one uncomfortable moment (more so for the witnesses than for me). I dislike public speaking very much. I had to give a presentation to my class in undergrad on something or other -- I think it was a Sylvia Plath poem, something about Daddy being a Nazi. Uplifting. Anyhoo, I had miscarried about a week or so before the presentation, and it was not particularly easy and I had had to be hospitalized for a few days. So I am still kind of recovering and unsteady. I get up to do my little presentation and about halfway through I feel like I have to sit down. So I announce that I have to sit down and then I wail "I just lost my BAYBEEEEEEE!!!" and start bawling. This was a summer course and I wasn't particularly close to anyone in the class and no one knew what to do. Other than get me a chair, which someone did. And the prof awkwardly tried to make me feel better.

The next day I gave the presentation and it was fine. Grace under pressure.

That seems like a lot to go through to secure an empathy-A.

TM