The feeling of that first pause when you enter the PE closet.
Posted by M3talhead@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 40 comments
Posted by M3talhead@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 40 comments
gtindolindo@reddit
How is everything so clean???
caramelcoldbrew@reddit
Ah, I can smell the old rubber as we speak.
kimchiman85@reddit
Same.
chawrawbeef@reddit
It’s like a combination of rubber mixed with old sweat and band aids
quercus_lobotomy@reddit
I can hear it - *ping ping ping*
Jasdak@reddit
I came to say the same. Kickball rubber is burned into my psyche.
AverageNeither682@reddit
The parachute!
tallcat601@reddit
I recently tried to tell my coworkers who didn’t grown up in the US about the parachute and they didn’t get why we only saw it once per year.
Cubelock@reddit
I don't remember it being this colorful though, everything was brown, beige or orange.
jackofallsomething1@reddit
Yup.
Insomniac_80@reddit
It had browns, and a lot of faded greens, blues and yellows. There might have been a trampoline, and gymnastics mats which were off limits!
Intelligent-Bed7284@reddit
The 80s were very brown. Our stuff was definitely old and not bright like this.
Worldly-Fishing-880@reddit
The signature kick ball color to me is a former red now faded into a smooth, matte pink
bikeonychus@reddit
This is very late 90s-early 2000s UK junior school.
In the UK, a lot of supermarkets ran voucher schemes where student's parents would collect vouchers from shopping for groceries, the kids would hand gem in at school, and the supermarket in question would buy computers or sports gear for schools. I remember it happening in the 90s, and my small rural school finally had P.E equipment that wasn't from the 50s. But, my year group never got to use it, as we moved up to secondary school the year the school actually got new gear.
My class was the last to play Rounders with wooden bats and balls. I am quite happy the younger generations were spared that, bloody terrifying having a wooden ball hurled at your face.
jackofallsomething1@reddit
It is so clean, neat and colorful. AI ask. Or a neat cozy gym closet much wealthier than my middle school.
Mirmer9@reddit
Good ole scooter boards
MOSbangtan@reddit
Oh hell yeah
mhyquel@reddit
So much activities for room
Ltimbo@reddit
Why does everything look brand new?
pawogub@reddit
I’m an elementary school custodian. They’re still like this.
Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit
I remember seeing it one time and asking the PE teacher why we didn’t play all the other stuff and then I never got to help again.
NW_Forester@reddit
Our room had a bunch of old gymnastics equipment we werent allowed to use. like we did tumbling and "balance beam" on a beam that was like 12" off the ground. But in storage they had stuff like pommel horses, a regulation size balance beam, a vault spring and vaulting horse. Never got to use any of them, they phased that stuff out years ago, just hadn't gotten rid of the equipment yet.
Insomniac_80@reddit
ROTFL, exactly the same here. The real balance beam, along with a trampoline were all in the storage room of the gym and were strictly off limits. Those gym rings which would let a person swing around the gym were also tied up and never used.
Insomniac_80@reddit
It was the fun stuff from the seventies which was "off limits."
Insomniac_80@reddit
What we see now is what was in there in during our last years of school. When we started school, this room was almost all faded colors, and contained things like trampolines, hockey sticks, gym horses, balance beams, and baseball bats. Each year a kid would get hurt, and we got "new things." We saw the balance beams in Kindergarten, but by third grade, they were replaced with powder on the grass outside. That rubber ball hit someone too hard, now dodgeball is played with foam balls. Watch those volleyballs, they are soon to get replaced with inflatable beach balls!
nickd1980@reddit
All I remember the PE closet being dark and dingy both elementary and middle school.
GuidoTheRed@reddit
Those rolly-coaster things were finger death traps!
Empty-Raspberry-9018@reddit
This was the best bit of the whole PE lesson.
SteveEcks@reddit
Squirrel_Master82@reddit
I remember going in there and getting excited seeing archery and fencing supplies. But we never got to use that stuff.
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
This is IDENTICAL to the PE closet in my old elementary school!
brokenman82@reddit
We weren’t allowed in. My senior year I worked part time at my old elementary school. The gym teacher had me go in there and I got very excited and she didn’t understand why
fubo@reddit
This is way too clean and bright. In my memory, everything would have a bit of grayish gunge on it, from the rim of the hula hoops, to the crevices between the bumps of the basketballs, to the wheels of the caster scooters. What's the gunge made of? Rubber, dirt, sweat, candy, hair, floor wax, who knows? Don't pick at it, it's gross!
LastChime@reddit
Pictures one can smell
Kramerica_ind99@reddit
Omg I can smell it!
vandal298@reddit
Omg yes, the secrets you then possess
Mottsawce@reddit
Gold mine.
ConcreteKeys@reddit
The heartbreak of watching your best friend get a front row seat on the gym floor to watch The Harlem Globetrotters and you will never know that feeling of having them spin that basketball on your finger as a volunteer.
thoughtfractals85@reddit
My elementary school was so poor the gym teacher just drove around with the equipment in busted cardboard boxes in her car. We always had to unload what we needed and load it back up at the end of class. The gym was also the cafeteria and the theater.
TinyRedGuy@reddit
Anybody remember Germ Warfare ?