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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Sports Day CertificateBefore the days of printers, etc, we had a really old stodgy photocopier that was yellow and used a lot of expensive ink. It was rarely used because the school was so stingey.
It was used to copy the School Sport's Day Certificate. It was on thin, cheap blue paper, and the 10th generation copy made the text blur and go fatter.
The most important thing about it, was it also had a sad copy of a boy running in a race, and I swear it was me, I used to look at it and wonder if they had taken a photo of me in a previous race and stuck it on. I'm sure they would have told me, and to this day I guess I'll never know.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2006, 18:34, Reply)
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