Before I can go forth to explain my most embarrassing moment on steemit, I will like to use a few lines to explain the kind of person I am as this will help us appreciate the moment or maybe pity me a little more than I felt.
I will not say I am an introvert as that will be very far from the point but I have this first meeting syndrome where I can't find the courage to approach someone for the first time, majorly because of the fear of telling me off, snub and the likes. Maybe that explains why I am not so much the ladies man, because somehow they always expect you to make the first move which am teribbly poor at.
That said, I joined Steemit January this year that is like over 25 years of living the way in had explained the previously, and fast forward a couple of days later, just 3 days or so short of making exactly a month, I had cashed out about 10SBD and was in high spirit for the first Abuja meet-up in Nigeria.
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Maybe due to the excitement of the messages presented and how cool and normal all these guys sounded, I felt like, well it won't be a bad idea to approach them, my inner self had adviced me against it but once the thought of the money I had cashed out flooded I didn't hesitate.
All the biggest guys on steemit who where from Nigeria were at this meet-up so gingered up I approached the one that sounded the coolest among them. At this point I should have revealed the name but I won't, for my own safety. I just said Hi, am @gjoeohere on steemit and he was like, what do I need your username for dude? Just tell me your name...or- George I had to cut in before he wounded my soul.
I thought waoh maybe that was an isolated case, so I went to the next and was like am George and he looked atbme and was like, you are a newbie right? I thought yea this one understands and I said "yes". He then replied bro don't show that too much, intros are done with your steemit username so it sticks.
I was shell shocked and humiliated, I didn't remember the next words we said after that because I was so embarrassed by their response because they just finished advicing us that networking was the way to make it on the platform, talk to people and all, and here I was trying to and they just shut me down.
That was the height for me although there are a few more snubs on Discord and all bit I think pretty much the platform is solid and has genuine people that will always make you feel good, these were just isolated cases, this has been my consolation and reason I got over them a little bit more easily and above all the motivation for joining the platform helped me a lot.