Remembering Things Past

[T&C]

We had ropes in 6th grade gym . Any rope burn got a walk over to the gym office a a fluorescent pink painful spray of that shit. I learned not to scream cuz the classmate abuse would be worse than the burn.

Also ropes 30 feet high with a fall death prevented by a 2 inch foam pad on the floor and an overweight gym teacher…

I don't remember it as a spray, or being actually pink. Seemed more on the red side, It was something that was just daubed on with a cotton ball, kind of like a battle scar when it dried. And yea it burned like hell.

We didn't have any padding under the ropes and they went all the way up to the rafters.

Dodge ball was interesting, most of the balls were regular size but there were 2 of them that were around the size of a cantalope. Not that much bigger than a softball, those little buggers could really sting.

 

[HipKat]

We had ropes in 6th grade gym . Any rope burn got a walk over to the gym office a a fluorescent pink painful spray of that shit. I learned not to scream cuz the classmate abuse would be worse than the burn.

Also ropes 30 feet high with a fall death prevented by a 2 inch foam pad on the floor and an overweight gym teacher…

I was terrified of heights when I was a kid. Never made it up those ropes.

 

[HipKat]

 

[sukie]

You know your aircraft is old if it still has an ashtray