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Oct 2020
2:00pm, 9 Oct 2020
28,456 posts
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Wriggling Snake
This was going to be a blog...it might be expanded one day.....
I was a prototype Luke Shaw, alleged full back at Manchester United. There are caveats, you add 10lbs in weight, a bald head (even back then), take away any pace, or actual football skills, but add positional sense, commitment but if I actually caught up with a winger, I would tackle them. I was also a Derek Pringle Cricket-o-Like, I could bowl deceptively slowly of a decent run up, occasional wicket taking ball, economical, sometimes, catch well, sometimes, bat defensively, sometimes for little runs. Always went to Arsenal.
I could do well at school, but occasionally hardly went, managed despite that to get A-Levels, did not get on with a single teacher. I liked pubs, a great deal, and had a somewhat erratic work life until my mid 20s, when I saw the error of my ways and went to night school.
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Oct 2020
12:54pm, 10 Oct 2020
49,132 posts
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Velociraptor
How much younger?
I don't know how I did it all.
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Oct 2020
10:05am, 11 Oct 2020
149 posts
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SteveCRunner
Skiver, drinker, smoker, waster ... until I rode the first MTB wave and then discovered running.
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Oct 2020
11:11am, 11 Oct 2020
53,725 posts
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Diogenes
Underachiever. More beautiful and talented than I realised but lacking belief, bravery and a work ethic.
Fundamentally exactly the same as I am now with the same good qualities and faults.
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Oct 2020
11:19am, 11 Oct 2020
22,447 posts
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Nicholls595
Skinny, with chips on both shoulders.
Good enough to play football for money (one full season on expenses and a team win bonus) but not good enough.
Even better at cricket (out playing Andy Pick in an Evening League match in the week he played for Young England against the Aussies. I was 2 years younger, but ultimately, not good enough*)
* or was it lack of opportunity? Add another chip
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Oct 2020
11:20am, 11 Oct 2020
6,414 posts
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Raemond
Really, *really*, odd.
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Oct 2020
11:49am, 11 Oct 2020
20,990 posts
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Dvorak
Fairly bright, but lacking almost entirely in application, or ambition. Terribly, terribly shy, and unable to make or maintain connections.
These days ... I'm a little bit more outgoing.
Details needed, Raemond. Could you have been in "The Big Bang Theory"? 
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Oct 2020
4:04pm, 11 Oct 2020
28,468 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I was talking about myself, late teens to mid 20s. What occured to me the other day working with the runners down at the uni, was they all seemed so self assured for 18/19 year olds. Perhaps it is the fatc they are good runners in their environment, or just that they are already quite smart people who seem to know where they are going.....something I didn't (or perhaps) never have worked out.
SHy and chippy, yes, could add shy, chippy came later when I have since realised my school wasn't up to scratch, not the fault of the teachers, just a lack of money. Under achieved for sure back then, may have made up for it later....
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Oct 2020
4:06pm, 11 Oct 2020
71,654 posts
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Gobi
Gobby wanker
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Oct 2020
4:06pm, 11 Oct 2020
18,179 posts
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GimmeMedals
Terribly shy and this resulted in no long term friendships that lasted into adulthood from school; this changed at university.
I tried hard at school but just didn't get it. I should have been in the year below and would have been if born 5 days later. I always felt like I was behind everyone else.
BUT I worked hard and was tenacious so eventually got the qualifications I needed.
I used to care far too much about what other people thought of me but was happy in my own company so I avoided people whenever possible.
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