I never did P.E. as such...
My friend and I got a pass from P.E. once to help a teacher rebuild some racking in the English department book store.

We managed to string it out for the remaining 4 years in senior school. We ended up marking registers, multiple choice questions, sleeping, in fact anything other than having to do P.E.

It didn't bother me, as I had been doing karate since 8, and was going to evening classes at least twice a week, one of them in the school hall.

One young P.E. teacher wasn't quite so happy with the arrangement, and used to give us "The Hard Stare" whenever we walked past during break.

Unfortunately for him, he happened to wander into one of my karate lessongs, walking up the side of the hall like he owned the place. He saw me and gave his customary hard stare. Mid-frown, my instructor (Grand) Master Loke shouted "You: Stop!". He may have been only 5'5", but his presence and authority knew no bounds. He then tore a strip of the teacher for entering his class, and made him do the walk of shame back the way he'd come.

Funnily enough he wasn't looking so hard on the return trip, and I may have even managed a little smile at him.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 10:47, Reply)