Stepping out into the bright lights on the stage at FR.
The audience waiting for you to say your lines and perform your part.
Your first few lines came out a bit garbled, it often happens to newbie actors on the worldwide stage of FR.
Then someone in the audience murmured with a comment about your verbal stumble.
Instead of moving on with your next lines an uncontrollable Brandonian rage welled up from deep inside you and you heard yourself screaming obscenities at the audience.
Then suddenly, the audience disappeared into darkness as you were hit with a tremendous flash and heard a thunderous boom.
Later, when you regained some degree of consciousness, you found yourself laying in a dark alley, your costume smoldering and tattered.
While in your head your mind kept screaming out these words, over and over, "YOU COUDDA BEEN A CONTENDA!!"
Great one! Very apropos for the subject of the thread. You’re brilliant.
LOL! Well done! Combining an ode to the zottee with an ode to the theme of the thread too. Bully!