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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Just remembered another...I was house head for our house at School, while in the sixth form. Now, I'm not the sportiest of people - covered in hair, sometimes referred to as being "Troll Like"... so as you can guess, sports were never my strongest point.
This didn't stop my entire year coming out in force for the Swimming day, where all the swimming races were held. And not a single bugger entered. So I was forced to compete in every race for my house. The bastards.
To make matters worse, I had to borrow a pair of old, holey swimming shorts from another kid in the year below, as I had banked on just sitting at the side watching the other kids in my house getting nice and exhausted.
However, my moment of shining glory came the point of the underwater race (where you must hold your breath and swim as long as possible). I play a lot of music, so have quite strong lungs - so strong in fact, that the PE teacher in charge dived in as he thought I had drowned.
I would apologise for the length, but instead I might just sing myself a little song...
(, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 2:53, Reply)
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