tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920111333235421319.post3495373030074471513..comments2023-05-23T09:01:55.803-07:00Comments on creativegarbagedump: Another True High School StoryKurdthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02669891159273784069noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920111333235421319.post-5015579840891745952010-07-09T16:52:53.408-07:002010-07-09T16:52:53.408-07:00@Oisin: Great story! I think all gym teachers (or ...@Oisin: Great story! I think all gym teachers (or PE Teacher, they're called that sometimes here too, like a military drill sargent is sometimes called a TI, training instructor)are cartoon characters. Most of them were the big tough jocks in highschool and after they graduated it was either teach sports and gym or work at a factory or a car dealership. It allows them to relive a little bit of their fleeting glory and pretend to be cool again. Its kind of sad really. We had one guy who should have been teaching PE but he was a history teacher instead. It was pathetic, one of the worst classes I've ever had. We'd read from the book for a bit and then just watch movies all hour. You'd think that would be great, but I just thought it was a waste of time. The jocks all loved it because he would talk to them about sports and everyone got A's for doing nothing. One time he showed us Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor and claimed we should learn something from it. I wanted to scream. Another time he came to school with sunglasses on and never took them off, all week. Apprently he had gotten into a fight at a bar and both of his eyes were blackened. A few years after I graduated he got fired for calling a gay kid a faggot and making him cry. He probably works at a car dealership now. Sorry, long comment.Kurdthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02669891159273784069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920111333235421319.post-63635214462440408912010-07-09T13:46:22.046-07:002010-07-09T13:46:22.046-07:00I was friends with a guy similar to that years ago...I was friends with a guy similar to that years ago but he was much less severe than what Cletus sounds like.<br /><br />My P.E. teacher (which is what we call gym) for the three years of my junior cert (what you'd call middle school) was a complete cartoon character.<br />He was a redneck obessesed with Gaelic Football (the Irish cultural equivalent of American Football)and excercise and fitness in general and always took more of a liking to kids who played sport than those who didn't.<br />He taught other classes and he'd just stop abruptly and talk about sport with some of the more athletic kids in the class for the whole time.<br />He was the coach of a couple of school sports teams and got very obsessive about them He'd make them train during the summer months. I wondered how much of a life he could have if he cared so much about under-13 boy's gaelic footabll teams.<br />I used to do an impression of him, about what I imagined his home life was like. He'd go around, yelling at his kids to hurry up eating their breakfast, doing their homework, and chase them around the kitchen with a broom while forcing them to kick a football. Just like he yelled at us to run faster in PE.<br /><br />For a while his wife was very sick and he was pretty depressed and drank a lot and we had him for our first class each monday. He'd come in with the stench of whiskey, holding his head, slightly stumbling, and say something like <br />"Alright class, go to room number... whatever, we're not doing class today... YOU!! DO YOU HAVE YOUR PE GEAR IN? NO?! Get to the office, and tell them you've got detention. and what about.... YOU?!" <br />It was like that every day, I counted about 5 days we actually didn't just sit around in some empty room.bluh blah blah balhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18290703868916125060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920111333235421319.post-66861095717419677292010-07-09T07:36:27.675-07:002010-07-09T07:36:27.675-07:00I will never get tired of this. It's insanely ...I will never get tired of this. It's insanely interesting!<br /><br />The gym teacher descriptions are really accurate, from what I remember in middle school. luckily, for some reason, I don't have gym at my high school. They're completely focused on torturing us with boredom, I guess.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17641021856477898999noreply@blogger.com