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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Beethoven's Underwater OvertureNot my story; tenuous link to sports 'day' but..
My dad always tells the story of his 'rough as arseholes' comp where the kids protested against swimming by pushing the school's only resource worth anything straight into the pool: a piano donated by the local council.
Kids & sports.
Not so much oil & water..
(, Mon 3 Apr 2006, 19:49, Reply)
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