Standing out for the wrong reason
A repost, but relevant:-
Now physical feats of speed or endurance are not my thing. PE teacher never did learn my name. Not a bad thing. I'm more of a brainy type. Of course this means I had my fair share of bullying but I like to think it was jealousy based. I can see some of you are nodding and some want to punch me already.

Aged 12, at a selective boys grammar school, I'm trying to make my mark with a new load of 30 class mates. PE class warms up with the usual running around exercises until Sir sets one particular task.
"Everyone in the middle of the gym, now run and touch every wall and return to the centre"
This is the cue for every boy to immediately scatter to the middle of the nearest wall before turning around and running fast as their little spindly legs could carry them to the middle of the opposite wall (some unfortunately meeting another boy coming the other way) before returning to the middle of the gym, turning 90 degrees (or pi/2, as I like to think of it) and repeating with the last two opposite walls.

Now I really don’t like to do more than I have to; one of life’s natural slackers perhaps. I thought for a moment and proceeded to jog sedately to the corner of the gym where I touched two walls at once, ambled to the opposite corner, touched the last two walls and returned leisurely to the centre of the gym arriving way before the speediest of my peers.

I had singled myself out to staff and pupils alike as too-bloody-clever-for-his-own-good.
(Rich T has a clever and witty sig, Sat 21 Nov 2009, 17:25, 6 replies)

Dammit
Yeah, I remember thinking I was the only one who'd figured that one out. I guess not.
(purplegod counting down for Christmas!, Sat 21 Nov 2009, 21:13, closed)

Very good man after my own heart!
(JuicyJ, Sun 22 Nov 2009, 0:20, closed)

Pythagoras!
Vitun geometrinen persereika kusipää.
(Klangtarnflatchslapper looks just like a Telefunken U-47, Sun 22 Nov 2009, 0:38, closed)

it took me about five seconds to figure that one out
the teacher gave me a nasty look and called me a smart-arse.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 22 Nov 2009, 1:13, closed)

Surely the whole point of the test
was to spot the future trouble-makers...?
(dxg, Sun 22 Nov 2009, 1:19, closed)

By jog sedately
You mean run 70% as quickly as the speediest of your peers. Otherwise they'll win.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 12:05, closed)