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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Perforated faceI’ve always hated sports day as I was one of the tall kids, so was always picked for sports, even though I was complete rubbish. Anyway sport day comes around and low and behold, I’m chosen for the hurdles! I can hardly run let alone run and jump. Come the day I’ve “Accidentally” forgotten my trainers. Oh whoa is me, looks like I can bugger off and have fun with my mates. Unfortunately my very sporting brother just happens to have his cricket shoes on him. Even more unfortunately these are the ones that where banned when they changed the regulation size of the metal spikes on the bottom.
So there I am at the starting line worried to death that I’m going to tare up the shitty track and get into deep shit when the guy in front of me goes arse over twat and his head land in my lane…. Just as I’m landing from jumping over this hurdle! Jonathon Naylor (for that was his real name) has no idea how close I came to making him Swiss cheese, but a couple of inches to the right and it wouldn’t have been pretty.
(, Tue 4 Apr 2006, 17:05, Reply)
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