Tell about a great victory or personal success from your school days ~Family History Tuesday~

Oddly enough one of the greatest successes I had in School was in my Physical Education class.

Remember how I told you it was always my worst class. I always performed way below everyone else. There were times that I hid behind a wall as I watched my classmates run laps -- to suddenly reappear when the last lap came around.

I even purposefully missed out on the swimming portion of class.

So, IT IS  strange that my victory was in an event of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test (do they even still do this in schools today?) . I think it was called the bar hang. Boy, could I hang!  I could hang longer than anyone else! It was truly a feat that felt like it didn't take much coordination or strength.

As I think about it now, I believe this success was only possible because I was a very small, thin-boned High School girl at 4 feet 10 inches tall and probably around 80 pounds heavy. A weakling who could definitely hang on for dear life! :)

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embarrassing

A co-worker just came back from lunch, red-faced, and proceeded to describe to us what had just happened to her. Her embarrassing moment brought back the memory of MY most embarrassing moment. Maybe not because it was THE most embarrassing, but I clearly remember my strong feelings at that moment. 

 I was 15 years old. I was in High School and all it's awkwardness. I dreaded every day of my P.E. class. I was so unable to do anything that expected me to coordinate my limbs. I ran the slowest, I jumped the shortest and couldn't throw a ball to save my life!


 So when we began playing baseball, our team went out on the field. I walked out the farthest I could from home base. I didn't want to risk the expectation of having to catch the ball! *CRACK* the sound of the ball against the bat reverberated in my head and I turned away to meander around my lonely end of the field. Then *THWACK*, my head jerked forward and i was dazed for only a moment. My senses came back to me as I felt everyone's eyes at my back. The sting of embarrassment started at my toes and burned it's way up to my face, where it stayed. Only the P.E. teacher dared to approach me. I didn't turn around. I didn't look him in the eyes. I just wanted the ground to open up and pull me in. 

And for the rest of the day, well, actually for a really long time, I truly thought everyone was pointing at me and laughing at 'the girl who got hit in the head with a baseball'. What's your most embarrassing moment?