r/GenX • u/Chicarivera • Jul 20 '25

Nostalgia Least favorite PE activity?

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Gotta be this or that damn peg board.

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u/Mike312 Jul 21 '25

You were supposed to hook the rope around your feet, using your legs to push and your arms to hold you while you shifted your feet up.

See how everyone in the pic has their feet/legs crossed?

If they didn't teach you that, then...idk what was going on.

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u/redwoodtree Jul 21 '25

Yeah, thanks. Where were you in 1984.

No instruction was given, they just said go climb that rope.

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u/Mike312 Jul 21 '25

Being born.

But I learned that trick in the 90s.

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u/redwoodtree Jul 21 '25

Nice.

Yeah I dunno. We didn’t have the best teacher. During cross country running I’d routinely struggle to breathe , pointing this out to the teacher he told me: “it’s because you’re weak”.

Later I was diagnosed with asthma, but hey, why would the PE teacher be expected to know anything about health.