I'm so old I Remember when:

[LTAY1946]

 

[Brooks_]

It's still here. I live here.

Not that Alabama.

 

[R2elk]

Beat you to it.

Tis the season. *

* I don't remember it per se. I just had a cool album. Funky Favorites, I think it was.

 

[fuzzi]

For those who are not "sporty" it was an hour of failure and ridicule. I was unable to climb a rope, so I was laughed at. I tried jumping the vault, slammed my knees into the box, hurt like the dickens. And I got laughed at. I had little balance, coordination. And even though I tried, I got laughed at.

When my family moved to a bigger town the gym classes were electives. I took archery and swimming. And I didn't get laughed at.

Oh, a follow-up...when my children were being bullied and the school wouldn't do anything I enrolled them in martial arts. The bullying subsided after a couple "incidents".

I decided to take classes, too. I was 33, overweight, out of shape, but determined. Every time I tried to do a kick I fell over, my balance was that bad. I had a great instructor who gave me the time to develop, and no one laughed at me. I might have done better in sports if the gym teachers had more empathy for a student with no natural ability.

 

[Brooks_]

Beat you to it.

I skip a lot.

 

[LTAY1946]

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[LTAY1946]

 

[fuzzi]

Any day of the week and twice on Sunday! Hated gym so much - made me loath any kind of sport involving a ball for the rest of my life, plus the shame/stigma of always being chosen last for teams because I was so lousy at the games. If it didn't involve horses or the woods, I didn't want any part of it.

No one wanted me on their team either...

I got over it.

 

[fuzzi]

Several years ago, I made a purple people eater costume for one of my adult daughters...she's the one in the middle ... Im on the right ... lol

That's great!!!