A Past Dream Come True

Preamble: When I was a young teenager, my dream was to become the fifth Spice Girl after Ginger Spice left. That's why this dream was so interesting, especially years later.

So I am at a Spice Girls concert, watching from the front row. Ginger Spice is performing with them, and then all of a sudden, she is gone. Within the flash of an eye, I'm suddenly on stage with the rest of them, completely confused, but I'm singing along with them, and having a great time.

Then there's this part of the concert where Mel C gets down into the audience and mouths the words to a passage that is on the slide projector, and I'm holding the thing that makes it go to the next slide. Well, hello. I've been on stage for like ten minutes - so I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm doing my best, but Mel C keeps looking back at me as though I'm not doing it right. So then I feel like a complete idiot. Finally her bit is done and she is on her way back to the stage, and she smiles at me so I feel a little better, until I press the off button on the slide button, and the whole projector goes off. The techies run in and they try to fix it but they can't seem to do it. I feel like a complete failure, so I fall to the stage, nearly crying, and everybody is just waiting, as I wallow in my failures.