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.
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chthonic, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 11:13)
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We sometimes played Pirates at primary school(except we didn't call it Pirates - it had no name). I always took great delight in telling the teacher how many times I had managed to touch the floor without her noticing. Oo, I felt like such a wicked monkey.
After each game we were told to go back to the changing area without walking (to make us exercise as much as possible, I suppose). Cue everyone hopping, skipping, running etc back to get changed. One day I opted to mince out. The teacher's failure to persuade me that it was the same as walking was matched only by my failure to convince her that they were completely different forms of locomotion. In the end I couldn't be arsed and just ran.
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Bob Todd whee, Wed 5 Apr 2006, 19:42,
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