Comment on Anon races against the jock in P.E.

• Backlog3231@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because I’m akward AF and have absolutely no hand-eye coordination. I always got picked last on every team I’d ever been on and the kids made fun of me.

  Let me tell you a story, one that I don’t like sharing IRL.

  One time my pe teacher started getting on my case about attendance again, so I decided to go (big mistake).

  That day we were doing indoor sports and I had to do baseball. It was my turn at bat; swing one, two, three, I’m out, or so I thought. Then the teacher said the most cruel words I can remember in high school, “no outs. Keep swinging”. So there I stood, desperately trying to hit the fucking ball. Swing ten, swing fifteen. The whole class was laughing at me. Swing thirty, swing thirty five. “Come on its the same fucking pitch hit the ball loser”. Swing forty, swing sixty. Then finally, mercifully, I managed to somehow bunt the ball. I tried to just walk away but the teacher made me go to first base. I walked to first base basically in tears where they promptly tagged me with the ball and I walked off the field.

  I think he didn’t want me to feel bad for striking out but it was so much worse. I didn’t go back to gym after that and the teacher never said anything again.

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  • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m also awful with hand eye condition (my bad eyes don’t help either) and always got picked last, really dislikes most ball sports for that reason, but I did enjoy when we did athletics, went running, climbing, hiking, cross country skiing etc. It was always a gamble what we were doing but often enough it was fun.

    Which sports do you usually practice?

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    • Backlog3231@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I basically don’t enjoy any athletics in any form. When faced with the “opportunity” to do any kind of athletic program, I will do my best to get out of it, even now. My parents signed me up for soccer when I was four and I begged them to take me out of the program after a year. I missed catching a baseball and got hit in the face when I was like 6 and never wanted to play again. I’m not a good or fast runner.

      When I was in the military we had to play basketball once and both teams made the whole point of the game to get me the ball no matter what because they thought it was hysterical how bad I was.

      Hiking and biking are cool but were never an option for our PE classes. Thats pretty much the entire list of athletic things that interest me.

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