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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Still slightly ashamed of this one..Sat in the stands with my friend during one glorious summer sports day, I looked over to notice he seemed to be just staring into space, deep in thought. Being young and childish I did the only obvious thing and pretended to slap him, stopping my hand short of hitting him (of course, I am not a violent person :).
His reactions were, shall we say, less than lightning-fast, and after about five seconds more of his thoughtful stare into space he suddenly jerked up and grabbed my hand.
My comment to him was something like "Nice reactions speedy", which prompted him to say "yeah, just you try that again".
So I did.
Quite Hard.
I did help him up afterwards, with blood pouring from his nose, and we went to find the nurse.
If by any chance you're reading this Paddy, I'm sorry!
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The Glum Reaper cannot solve your problem because he has no jam, Sun 2 Apr 2006, 12:18,
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