Reply #26: Dodgeball [View All]

[last_texas_dem]

I missed out on getting to play the violent type more than a couple of times.

I remember playing it in fourth or fifth grade in our coed P. E. class of about sixty students, using like thirty balls, and it being kind of a riot. We played it much differently than the type I played a couple of times in junior high, and the type played in the movie Dodge Ball and a memorable episode of the show "Freaks and Geeks."

I remember in sixth grade my P. E. teacher (he was a big jerk... just thinking of that; no reason to mention it, really) telling us before we went home for Xmas that during the next semester we were going to do wrestling and play dodge ball. I was a short, slightly chubby, clueless sixth grader at the time and kinda worried about doing wrestling in there, not even thinking about the implications of "grown-up" dodge ball. I mentioned it to my dad (who happened to be the principal) and for some reason we ended up never doing dodge ball or wrestling that next semester. haha So there were at least a couple advantages to having to spend junior high with your dad as the principal. I didn't much appreciate the situation at the time, though!

Sorry for that ramble... haha