When I was in college, we went out to a local bar that had karaoke. I had never done it. My roommate put in for Around the Way by LL Cool J, and dragged me up on stage to do it with him. There were so many reasons to not do this: Neither of us really knew the lyrics. White dudes singing hip hop is usually terrible. And there were two Cute Girls of note in attendance. But, I felt obligated. We went on stage. We sucked. Some people booed.
And I was done with karaoke.
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