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Post by hitzpink on Mar 19, 2007 19:43:42 GMT -5
Ooh, we had to do swimming too. I hated it, especially because it was the only part of p.e. that was co-ed. And the pool was always freezing! They used to keep track of when you sat out because of your period, so if you tried it twice in a month or something, they'd look at you all suspiciously and make you run a mile. They wanted you to actually RUN it too, I remember being sent back to do it again because I walked around the track all lazily. Sheesh, p.e. teachers can be so ridiculous!
Umm, back on topic.. Mal having to wash the pinneys is really gross. I had forgotten about that. I would've refused to touch all of those sweaty things. Eww.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2007 0:14:54 GMT -5
I read this book last week for the first time ever. It kind of struck me as an odd book, or at least some of the slang mallory uses is odd.
those disgusting mesh vests that they made you wear in gym class, she referrs to as "Pinnies"
When babysitting for the newtons she says that's Lucy is wearing a "stretchy" (which I can only assume is a onesie). And, when she takes lucy outside she gets put in her "sack suit"
did mallory just go crazy and use weird slang in this book, or do I have a book from somewhere else where they use this kind of slang...
was it a bizarre book, or just a bizarre book... inquiring minds want to know _______________________________ In other news, I would up getting a doctors note to get out of most of gym class. I wasn't allowed to play "contact sports" or pretty much anything where a ball could hit my hands because of a medical condition. So, no volleyball, no football, no basketball, no push-ups no chin-ups, and I could bat but not catch. I walked a lot of laps back in the day.
I liked raquet games, but got in trouble because I never wanted to keep score. I thought it was more fun to just whack the ball back in forth. In college, I got an A in Badminton. It was Awesome.
Flash forward about ten years. These days I will sometimes play basketball with my husband and I'm not that bad. I have to dribble left handed and its never 1 on 1, more like free thows, around the world and horse... but its not that bad. And he knows he has to be nice to me because I make dinner and I put out.
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Post by hitzpink on May 6, 2007 11:13:30 GMT -5
I've never heard of those shirts being called "pinneys" except in this book either. I don't remember the "stretchy" and "sack suit" comments, though.
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Post by starrynight on May 9, 2007 11:41:23 GMT -5
We didn't have swimming in PE, thank goodness, but we DID have tumbling. I'm one of the only girls I know who never learned to do cartwheels and roundoffs or even a good somersault. I used to DREAD the humiliation that was the tumbling unit in PE! That being said, we had a "fitness run" every Friday in middle school PE that covered a route of over a mile. I could barely run 100 yards before getting tired in those days, so once I faked an injured ankle to get out of it. I pretended I'd hurt on the way to school, so there was no way I could have a doctor's note, and I got away with it.
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Post by mckay on May 9, 2007 18:59:25 GMT -5
I never could run more than a few hundred yards before my lungs seized up, still can't (of course I'm in terrible shape, period these days). And I never did well in tumbling, either, all I could manage was a cartwheel. And I sucked at basketball, and softball...and pretty much everything.
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Post by starrynight on May 10, 2007 11:04:16 GMT -5
^ Glad I'm not the only one who had those issues. I'm not even going to go into my volleyball experiences. *shudder* I wish I'd had the guts to take a stand like Mallory did.
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Post by lilafowler on May 10, 2007 13:16:57 GMT -5
^Your volleyball experiences probably aren't as bad as mine. There were two separate years where I intentionally injured my wrist to get out of playing volleyball. I was ridiculously bad.
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Post by mckay on May 10, 2007 14:36:05 GMT -5
I actually did okay at volleyball. And field hockey. But that was pretty much it. I benched myself during a basketball unit one year, and skipped gym for an entire semester. And never got in trouble. I have no idea why not.
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Post by starrynight on May 10, 2007 14:53:31 GMT -5
^Your volleyball experiences probably aren't as bad as mine. There were two separate years where I intentionally injured my wrist to get out of playing volleyball. I was ridiculously bad. I was so bad that not only did my teacher once pull me aside and tell me that I may not like the game, but I did need to try (she thought I just wasn't making any effort even though I actually was), but when we had a shortage of people in class one day and I had to be moved to a different team, my old team CHEERED. Out loud. Right in front of me.
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Post by dawnomite on May 10, 2007 16:08:37 GMT -5
^ Glad I'm not the only one who had those issues. I'm not even going to go into my volleyball experiences. *shudder* I wish I'd had the guts to take a stand like Mallory did. Volleyball ::shudder:: I was OK or even good at a lot of things in gym class but never volleyball. I remember the crying because the other kids on my team yelled at me so much in middle school. I don't have very good depth perception so yeah that was fun. The format of school gym class is actually a huge adult peeve of mine. It turns a lot of people off of exercise for life. Not every kid is going to be good at "team sports" especially when other kids are screaming at them for not doing well enough and.or the whole class is spent waiting in line or sitting on a bench or standing on a field. There are so many other (and a lot more fun and interesting and effective) ways to offer physical activity to kids/teens. I've seen a great program offered somewhere in illinois I this (I think gym is required all 4 years of high school there sp they'd better make it interesting) Ok end of rant
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Post by hitzpink on May 11, 2007 19:04:45 GMT -5
Ugh, that's terrible! What brats. I despised volleyball and totally sucked at it, but I think my worst sport was soccer. You know how on tv and movies some super-clutzy kid will be standing with his legs open, ready to grab the ball which is slooooowly rolling towards him, and somehow he misses and the ball rolls right between his legs and into the goal? That was me, exactly. Then my team yelled at me and I got into an argument with them because they had forced me, against my protests, to be goalie because I'd been so terrible out on the field the day before. UGH. Wow, it's kind of theraputic to complain about it with you guys though. hehe.
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Post by mckay on May 11, 2007 20:21:03 GMT -5
I seriously lucked out - I went to a school where the girls were more the backstabbing whisperers than outright tormentors (or they just thought I'd try to, like, sexually assault them or something if they did, what with all the - perfectly accurate, but still, I was a femme! - lesbian rumors circulating) , so I never had to know who hated me and why. Didn't matter to me. And I imagine they really didn't talk about me to much, as I mostly kept a low profile. And much as I hated gym class , I wasn't usually picked last for teams Pretty close to last, but never last. Heh.
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Post by lyricalangel on May 12, 2007 1:56:47 GMT -5
LOL. I got mono one year and had a doctor's note to get out of gym for the rest of the year.
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Post by dawnomite on May 12, 2007 6:44:53 GMT -5
I remember 9th grade, I was in the hospital for an eating disorder (I know very cliche for a ballet dancer, I realize). And when my teachers sent me homework my gym teacher (not know what I was there for) told me to run around the house several times. I guess I oculdn't get out of gym no matter what.
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Post by sotypical42483 on May 12, 2007 13:17:15 GMT -5
^geesh! I usually didn't mind PE too much. Volleyball was the one exception, but with everything else I was kind of a show off and was pretty hell-bent on being better than everyone else. Oy.
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