I hate/ hated gym class.
Good point Glider. I just wanted to say that it wasn't any big deal at the time, heaven forbid, nobody was naked! When I read someone's comment that the teacher would likely be up on a sex charge, I thought, hang on, that's way extreme, even today.
We can all agree that protective measures are far better today and that's thanks to knowledge and learning. And back to the topic itself, it's the very reason why I hated gym because it seemed that whatever ploy you tried to get out of doing it, our teachers were one step ahead!
Thankfully my high school only required one year of PE. Well I actually went to a DOD US military base school overseas and they only required one year of PE. Then I moved to Northern VA but that high school required TWO years and I moved to this high school as a upcoming senior! So I was mortified that I had to take PE as a senior. HOWEVER since I transferred from a high school that only require one year of PE, this high school said I was exempted. YES! I hated PE. I have terrible coordination and still do. I hated volleyball, basketball, baseball, etc. I rather have cleaned up the showers or locker rooms instead of actually being around other kids playing a sport. I was always last to be picked too if we had to be in groups. SO annoying! I don't know if there was a class where I can take another to replace my PE requirement. Maybe one on one karate? I don't know. ![]()
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Most of our PE classes was my dreaded sport of basketball---I was absolutely lousy at it. I couldn't even make lay-ups right. I had to stop first before jumping up to try to make a basket---which often times didn't go in.
This was co-ed PE. And our teacher always divided our teams up in "Shirts" and "Skins." The first day of PE where this happened I was trying to figure out what this meant. Two teacher selected captains began taking turns picking us for their teams. I was one of the last to be selected (as almost usual). Mr. X looked at us and pointed to the other team and said, "You are the shirts." That team went out onto the court and began dribbling the basketball. Mr. X looked at the team I was on and said, "You are the skins." I felt a swarm of butterflies in my stomach when I learned what that meant---the guys started taking off their shirts. I didn't feel comfortable doing that. I was very skinny and I was self-conscious---partly because of one side of my sternum that stuck out noticeably more than the other side. I stood frozen. Mr. X yelled at me, and I took my shirt off.
Every time we played basketball (and it was most PE days) I was on the "Skins." I couldn't figure it out. It made me mad. I got to where I would throw my white PE shirt at the wall and yell, "Skins again of course!" When Mr. X did allow us to play something else, it was often wrestling.
Then, near the end of the period, it was off to the mandatory shower room with the multi-headed shower pole. We all had to stand around it with no privacy. And Mr. X would watch us from the entrance of the shower room. I began to wonder about if he got pleasure out of this.
I often went to the golf course to play 9 holes on weekends. One time as I was on the first hole by myself, I saw Mr. X on the second green. He was looking at me. And as I teed off of the second hole, he remained on the second green instead of going on to the third hole's tee off. All I could do was play onto the green. Mr. X said, "Play along with me." So I had a very awkward round of golf with him. Though I have blocked out his conversations with me, I remember there were some strange things he said to me. I just can't remember what they were, but I can remember feeling a bit bothered by it.
My best man, who I had gone to school and graduated with, had reminded me about one of the P.E. teachers who used to place a chair in front of the shower room, and would sit and watch the boys showering at the end of class. I suppose you could argue that this particular teacher was only making sure his students weren't goofing off, but still, you gotta think, this was very, very weird behavior on his part.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
I never understood that the "have to watch the boys shower" thing. What the f**k. It is bad enough you have to get naked in front of other people, but to have some one pulling up a chair to watch. Son of a b***h that is creepy. "Hey Billy, you didn't scrub you dick well enough, try again." I am all for hygiene, but leering in a whole other thing.
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I'm lucky my classes never required us to shower. A couple people took showers but most didn't. I never did. Even if it was required I probably could of got out of it because some of my classmates thought I was homosexual; I think forcing us to shower could of led to a sexual harassment lawsuit
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Yes. mostely i hated any sport that wasnt basketball. I was so good as Basketball because i practiced, and was like the wonder from down under with the rock. i was hot! i could practicly make it from anywhere, but couldnt play on a team.
i hated opening my locker i was always so freaking nervous. because i didnt wear boxers. so you could imagine the names i got called ![]()
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One time, an idiot gym teacher put me, a girl, in a group of rowdy boys and told us to play basketball. Of course, I was the only one in the group who didn't know how to play, and there was no way I could complete an assignment like that. Not only did I not know how to play, but the boys wouldn't acknowledge my existence. The teacher tried to get me suspended for not participating.
OK, that guy was a total ass. Do PE teachers have to pass some psycho test just to get a job?
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I hated PE, I wasn''t good at any sports.
when it came to groups, I was always last to be picked. I especially hated it when teachers forced me to join a group, as the others would whine about how I would ruin any chance they had of winning.
I remember when my brother (NT) started high school and my mother made him wear socks with his PE shorts and shirt (because that was the uniform).
well wearing socks with shorts got him majorly teased.
speaking of excuses what excuses did u use to try and get out of it?
did any work?
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when it came to groups, I was always last to be picked. I especially hated it when teachers forced me to join a group, as the others would whine about how I would ruin any chance they had of winning.
I remember when my brother (NT) started high school and my mother made him wear socks with his PE shorts and shirt (because that was the uniform).
well wearing socks with shorts got him majorly teased.
speaking of excuses what excuses did u use to try and get out of it?
did any work?
I had inadvertently stepped on a rusty nail a couple times. While legitimately accidental, I admittedly milked it for all it was worth, getting my parents to write me a note to my P.E. teacher that I was unable to participate in any physical activity due to my "injury." It worked for about three days - until without thinking, I ran up the stairs past my P.E. teacher, who gave me a look that plainly said. "you're back in gym clothes, tomorrow." So, the next day, I was back, taking part in sports, miserable and humiliated by my lack of athleticism as ever.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
OK, that guy was a total ass. Do PE teachers have to pass some psycho test just to get a job?
Or perhaps they simply have to fail any 'normal' test that is applicable to teachers?
I was ruinously, unforgivably dire at PE.
I couldn't catch. I could throw, but usually either in the wrong direction or straight into my teammate's face. I couldn't use my racket to hit anything that was supposed to be hit. My style of running is primarily characterised by flailing limbs, frequent stumbling, and an uncertainty on behalf of the spectators as to whether I'm moving forwards at all.
My physical coordination is so poor that I can't even ride a bike or balance properly on one leg to this very day.
The only thing in which I could achieve even the barest level of competence was swimming, and I made a point of worming my way out of every swimming session in high school. See, I was already a figure of ridicule for being overweight (among other things), and I wasn't prepared to endure the indignity of getting changed with the other girls.
To top it all off, my PE teacher was one of these 'Mr. Motivator' types, and took the utmost pleasure in bellowing himself hoarse at the evidently flabby and weak-willed among his pupils in the hope that this would lead them to see the value in 'healthy competition'.
Horrible memories.
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