2 for 1
Both of them revolve around the bane of my school days, Physical Education. I am a nerd, not an athlete. Don't push me.

One particularly cold day, when it was pissing down and blowing a gale, we were all sent out to do some rugby training, which to start with consisted of standing around for a while. Of course, this had to be done in the cheapest, thinnest, smallest standard PE kit ever issued. I don't like rugby, or standing in the freezing cold rain while some fat berk with an office full of biscuits stands around in 5 layers of clothes under an umbrella telling us we're useless. My response was to turn blue. This isn't an exaggeration. I didn't know until the other students pointed it out. Sure enough, I was freezing to death, and the "teacher"'s response was to make me run to warm up. I couldn't, as my legs were seizing up. Eventually, he reluctantly sent me indoors. I didn't do PE in cold weather ever again.

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A few years later, when I was doing AS Levels and consistently skipping PE lessons (still enforced even though you didn't pick them, and you supposedly control what you can do), I was in a photography class. The classroom overlooked the tennis courts, where a number of students were running back and forth with hockey sticks. Another student and I were idly gazing out the window, and talking about how crap PE was (go Art students!). The other student remarked: "What a pointless exercise". As quick as a flash, without even thinking, I responded with my zippiest one-liner to date. "Well, that's what P.E. stands for".
( Awesome Welles petitioning for foetuses to be rebranded 'wombles', Thu 5 Feb 2009, 14:59, 4 replies)

Sorry to be a party-pooper
But I'd take PE over Art any day of the week....
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 5 Feb 2009, 15:33, closed)

Doesn't bother me.
Each to their own, and all that.
( Awesome Welles petitioning for foetuses to be rebranded 'wombles', Thu 5 Feb 2009, 16:08, closed)

Absolutely...
...however it is possible to be a nerd AND sporty. I was a bright kid, but was pretty decent at most sports. My son is exactly the same.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 5 Feb 2009, 16:18, closed)

Agreed
I never really understood the people who thought they were "too cool" for P.E, or "just didn't see the point". I was runty and nerdy too (at least until year 9 when I took up cross-country running and became fast as fuck) but I still got involved, running around ineptly and bouncing of the bigger kids in rugby. I feel sorry for people who can't deal with inclement weather and a bit of exercise.
(Bernard Bernoulli, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 16:11, closed)