Did you like gym class in school?

[J-Mann]

I had to vote "no," since the choices were limited, although it largely depended on the activity.

There were days that I lived for in elementary school -- days when we played on scooters, did group activities with a parachute or climbed the rope to the ceiling:

 





Thinking back on that rope ... I have no idea how that was a mandatory activity. The thin little pads they put under the rope would have only managed the blood splatter had a kid actually tumbled off the thing, given that the gym ceiling was probably 40 feet high. We all survived though.

Then we had a totally uninspired gym teacher in junior high (the husband of the elementary school gym teacher, believe it or not). He made us play variations of sports that he liked -- basketball or golf, mostly.

We swung at wiffle balls with putters and played some stupid basketball game where four teams competed for who could make the most baskets. He always formed some team of the "athletes" -- the seemingly giant 5'8" 13-year-olds who hit puberty before everyone else and actually liked the game. I always got on the team with the two fat girls, the chick with spina bifida and the kid with cerebral palsy. And, I suppose, my athletic ability was similar to theirs.