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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Cross-Country RunBecause I have asthma, I usually had a handy excuse to get out of the yearly cross-country run.
However one year, the new teacher didn't believe me and forced me to start running. After running painstakingly slow (a little old granny could walk faster than I decided to ran) I got sent back to the school because the teacher (who had to stay at the back with the last kid) wanted to catch up with the others.
(, Wed 5 Apr 2006, 17:46, Reply)
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