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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10 stepAnyone remeber doing 10 step at Primary School. It was like a under 11s Decathlon, where you get points depending on how well you did in things like standing long jump and hundles etc.
Anyway, I digress. One such event was cricket ball throw. After completing my throws, I went to help the teacher measure and return the ball. For a reason I cant remember (Im sure I had a reason when I did it), I decided to catch the gimpy kid's best-throw-by-miles. I gave a little cheer as I was chuffed to catch it, but got a bollocking off the teacher, and everyone moaned at me for ruining that kid's best throw. No one played with me that lunchtime....
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