Well anyway, here it is....don't we ALL have shyness once in awhile??? (Well, I know a few people who are damn good at covering it up, if they do have it...). I'd say shyness/social anxiety is a normal experience that everyone feels from time to time. It is only the poor souls who are extra sensitive who feel it more intensely, are overwhelmed by it and thus at times are more intensely restricted by it, that have a worse case of it. The rest of us "only" have to deal with it once in awhile...

that's probably too serious an answer though <drat>

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia