School Sports DayAt some point in the distant past, someone at my school had built a large concrete tank behind the sheds and called it a swimming pool. Proud of this, they had a "Swimming Sports Day" in which everyone had to participate, even those who couldn't swim (they got to walk across the shallow end of the tank).
This would probably have been OK if the pool hadn't turned a deep opaque green the night before due to lack of maintainance. Even the school sports stars didn't want to go near the gloopy mess in the pool. We were practically pushed in. I'm sure some of the younger kids never surfaced again and the non-swimmers looked petrified.
Tell us your sports day horrors.
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chthonic, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 11:13)
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TeacherOur gym teacher one year was an alleged archery champion who won some kind of medals for England. If you saw him, the only medals he could ever have won was for pie eating.
Anyway he'd make us do the usual football/hockey/rugby/running thing but from a distance cos he couldn't ever run close enough as he was too much of a fat chuffer. If we were far away it was standard to pretend we couldn't hear him or just ignore him and make him run over to us - it was fun to watch his red face try to convey any kind of words without him having a coronary....
Wait, he only lasted a term and then vanished.....
(, Sat 1 Apr 2006, 17:16, Reply)
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