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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The joys of unsupervised PEDuring school PE lessons, as you got higher up in the school you were given the option of what you wanted to do, so all the 'cool' guys went off to play football or whatever. My friends and myself opting for tennis, in the courts round the back of the PE block, seemingly ignored by teachers. After about one day of playing 'real' tennis we got bored and reinvented it as 'crazy tennis' which was basically us twatting about with tennis balls, occasional volleys, trying to hit each other and so on. One mighty game was a normalish round that was played over the whole tennis court area - four courts side by side, basically hitting it as hard as you can to get it to the other end, then a fight between everyone playing at the other end to reach it first and hit it back.
We got into a bit of trouble after managing to lose something like 12 tennis balls to the row of trees and road hiding behind that bordered one side of the courts.
There was also the day it pissed down, which should have been an oppertunity to hide inside the changing rooms, but were bored so decided to play anyway, que about four guys running about in the pissing rain twatting about with tennis balls.
They did decide to drag us indoors and get us to do PE 'properly', namely basketball.
We organised beforehand a set of signals (usually odd words shouted out) and corresponding actions. Hence suddenly 3/4 of the players dropping to the ground and 'breakdancing' or rolling from one end of the court to the other, plus other nonsense like one guy who decided to drop and roll his way past people when he got the ball and so on
David
(, Mon 3 Apr 2006, 16:20, Reply)
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