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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Never having been any kind of athleteand always being the kind of kid that would get outrun by others when they were running backwards, school sports days were things I tried to avoid, usually unsuccessfully.
Suffice it to say that when football teams were being chosen, the fattest kid in school would get picked before I did. At that point, the captain of (now) my team would say something along the lines of "oh shit, we've lost".
This occured pretty much most times. While the prophecy may not always have been fulfilled (I did get pretty adept at staying as far away from the ball as humanly possible) there was one constant - I was always the one kid that never got picked.
Anything humourous happened? Well, I could tell you that my knob fell out during a race once, but as that would be a completely untrue utter barefaced lie, I won't bother.
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esganorp has no hummus, Wed 5 Apr 2006, 18:12,
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