Dodgeball

I was reading an article about Clay Aiken today and it talked about how he was a nerd in school who was always one of the first targets in dodgeball. It flooded back many memories for me since I was the same way. I always hated playing dodgeball since I was the easy fat target. My small group of friends and I would hide in the corners of the gym till we were made to move. The stupid gym teacher never let us kids stay in one spot to long. We always had to keep moving, but tried to keep the attention off of us.

Does anyone know what I am talking about? Did you ever play dodgeball in school? Remember how there were usually three athletic guys or maybe a tomgirl who always took turns at being the winner? That is how is was in my school, until one day.

It was a typical round of dodgeball of me hiding in the corners. I was usually targeted around the beginning of the game, but not this day. I was doing a great job of avoiding the athletic boys that day by standing behind my friends. They were knocked off one by one by having the most popular and cute boy in the class throw a ball hard at them. All of a sudden it was just me and him. Don't ask me how that happened, I really don't know. I was scared poopless. I was glued to the wall as he was pacing around in the throwing circle. Here comes the slow-mo part. He throws the ball as my knees go weak and I fall to the ground. BUT, I catch the ball!!!

If you know anything about the game, you know that if you catch the ball, the person who throws it is out of the game. I caught the ball, but it took me a second to realize that I won! I was so shocked! Happy, but shocked. It was surreal! It is one of my favorite elementary memories because it was the only game I ever won in gym.

Do you have any special gym memories? Is it stupid that this is one of my fav school memories? Let me know what ya think. Dodgeball is grand people!