3. Dear Reddit, what was your biggest public speaking mistake and why?

Dear Reddit, what was your biggest public speaking mistake and why?

6th form (16-18) at school: Big school, about 500 students per year, so around a thousand in the whole 6th form.

Every week we had a debate in the school theatre, proper theatre stage at the front tiered seating like a cinema. Basically you teamed up with a friend, staff picked two pairs of names and a topic you had to go upfront and debate it on the stage.

Was terrified of public speaking but was told I was funny and kept getting asked to volunteer, so figured it could only help get me over my fear and went for it. Me and a friend (both guys) get picked to debate against two girls on the motion: Feminism has been pushed too far and has passed equality so that society now stands in favour of women (Or that gist with similar phrasing).

In my wisdom I come up with an amazing first strike for team boys! I was going to be the first to speak, I knew one of the girls always wore trousers and the other whilst sometimes wearing a skirt was likely to be in trousers, so I borrowed a skirt to wear for it. I stand up, everyone laughs at the boy in the skirt, "Why are you all laughing? Will the same laughter erupt shortly when my opposition stand up in their trousers? their traditionally manly attire? No, so girls have a choice of skirt, dress, trousers... boys don't get afforded the same rights... this hardly seems fair does it?" Boom, take that girls!

So I get to the theatre early, slip on the skirt, realise it is short, shorter than the baggy boxer shorts I am wearing, this looks ridiculous... oh well commando it is. I position myself sat behind a table so nobody can see me from the waist down as the theatre fills up... with 1,000 of my peers, numerous teachers, and my mum who worked at the school.

I get up, laughter errupts, I deliver a frankly brilliant and hilarious speech, finish take a bow, and go sit down while the other three do their speeches...

...Sit down, like a guy: slouched back / legs splayed... and bask in the glory of my speech. Whilst unbeknownst to me showing my cock to everyone. When I found out afterwards, that was pretty awkward.

TL/DR: Won a debate about feminism by waving my willy at my mum, lots of teachers and about a thousand children.

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