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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Relay raceI was the second runner in my class's 4x100m relay team in the school sports day, for some reason, presumably because there was a rule for how many events you could enter and the faster runners had already been in other races.
I'm not a great runner by any stretch of the imagination, and after the fastest lad in my class passed the baton to me, I was pretty far ahead of the rest of the runners. The gap was closed by some of the other runners by the time I made it to the third runner and passed the baton, but I was very pleased to have not fucked up completely in front of everyone.
Eager to ensure this remained the case, I quickly attempted to leave the track, forgetting the advice we were given beforehand, namely, make sure you look out for other runners behind you when leaving your lane.
I found myself flung to the ground as I had just ambled into the path of the fastest runner in school. He was also on the floor, his baton was several feet away, and the guy waiting for it was staring at me liked I just raped his Grandma.
The whole school was staring at me as I picked myself up and made my way to the side of the track. My lack of participation in future sports days was an inevitable result.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2006, 2:25, Reply)
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