PE / Games (!? where's the fun?)
I have many horrific memories of PE lessons.

I'm convinced the teacher was kicked out of the Army for unnecessary aggression (as well as being a cock), there was also the dodgy one who used to peer in the showers, hence a shower was a 10 second dash to get your hair wet and thus appear to have showered.

Anyway, I recall the weather was a major factor in our PE lessons. You see the PE teacher took a bit of pride in "his" football pitch. This meant that if it was raining/snowing/hailing, far from abandon the PE lesson he was more concerned we might turn the pitch into a muddy bog. So we'd do cross country running instead.

And so we'd don our small polyester shorts and go for a 1 hour run around the perimeter of a field in sub zero wet conditions. I remain astonished nobody died of pneumonia (though one kid in the class did contract it!).

I've never worked out either the criteria by which some boys ended up playing cricket while the rest of us did more cross country running.... It's not like they sat us all down and said "who's interested in cricket, would you like to be in that group?". No, I was never asked, nor invited. Perhaps somehow it was assumed I wouldn't like it? None the less in 7 years at that school not once did I try my hand at cricket.

I suppose however as far as useful skills go, and considering the shitty area I lived in, the ability to run fast for a long period of time is no doubt more likely to benefit me than knowing how to play cricket.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 9:44, 2 replies)

But having a cricket bat to hand to thwok all the ne-er do wells with would of been handy no?
Then you could of strolled away at a leisurely pace...
(Formaly Over say's hello, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 10:29, closed)

Ahhh
the endless cross county running... was ok if, like me, you were a bit nippy and could fuck off ahead of the rest to have a crafty fag while the others caught up... maybe it was just the sort of school I went to...
( SpankyHanky, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 10:54, closed)