Did you ever have any of these?
You know, when you used to go to holiday camp things aged 11 or 12 and you went out to the basketball court to play basketball, but there were some other boys your age there already and they all went quiet when you showed up.
And this other time I was ice skating in a relatively small ice skating rink. Now I'm a pretty good skater, and this other guy was about the same, so we suddenly just started cutting each other up and stuff like that, as if it was an unspoken race or something.
(again i was 13)
I love moments like this. Tell me of stuff like this that has happened to you.
This is a GOOD thread
Nothing like this has ever happened to anyone
it's pure fabrication, and to be honest, i'm a little offended.
People must have holiday rivalries.
THEY MUST
I went on a holiday to the norfolk broads.
We were staying on a houseboat. Some black kid shouted at me from the houseboat next to me so I ran away (he was black! This was Norfolk!).
Turns out he wasn't shouting at all: he wanted to play with us. Me and my brother took him and his brother on at a rowing race. We won. His dad gave us chocolate. His sons cried.
Another time,
we were on holiday on the Scottish borders (I know! dangerous!). We met some insufferable little prick who bragged about not having a tv (even more middle class than me not being allowed to watch ITV. HOW DARE HE BE MORE MIDDLE CLASS THAN I!), and his family and mine went walking in the hills together one day.
He insisted on whistling all the time and drinking water out of the streams as they were so delightfully fresh. I noted with delight that he was drinking sheep droppings. I didn't tell him.
you racist cunt
this happened in orchestras
when I was younger. When people were 'warming up' they'd try to outdo each other by playing little excerpts of complicated stuff pretending it was to make their fingers more supple when really they were showing off
^^^
i'd generally just honk my oboe then go back to reading.
^ This!
I remember going to Spain with my family camping in 1996.
The people in the tent next to us were pretty much a Dutch version of our family. We got on really well all week, then England beat Holland 4 - 1 and they stopped talking to us.
TRUE STORY.
what the hell is a holiday camp?
sounds awful.
You know those places you all go for your fun indie weekends?
they operate as holiday destinations for non-indie people at other times in the year.
I got challenged by two dutch girls
(who happened to be twins, not that that matters, but I just wanted to colour in a little more detail) to race them up a climbing wall at a camp site in the pyrenees one evening when I was 12. I don't know how exactly the gauntlet was thrown down, as I didn't speak Dutch nor they English, but it was definitely on. In the end it was pretty much a dead heat. Then one of them kissed me for a bit. I went back to the tent, ate quite a lot of custard, then went for a bike ride by myself. Good holiday.
that does sound like a good holiday
all the elements falling into place. Good work.
it kind of sounds like one of those
eighties coming-of-age films...or if you were several years older and the other dutch girl kissed you too then it would be an appropriate beginning for a european blue movie...
I got in trouble on a PGL holiday once
It was tent c4 v tent c6. We hated each other. And one night at gone midnight a girl came in and said they were waiting for us at the lake. And we thought we were pretty cool so decided to go. And then we got there and they jumped out at us and pushed us all in and a fight of epic (nine year old girl epic) proportions ensued. Then one of the annoying group leader people found us and phoned our parents.
That was pretty fun, thinking on it.
I once cropped a kid with downs syndrome on the beach playing football.
I didn't know what downs sydrome was at the time, so I had a go at him for being a wimp when he was crying.
way to make me spit out my coffee
you bastard
I went for the ball in fairness.
It wouldn't have been a straight red, but he didn't seem to know how to fall over right.
i remember
i went with my mate and his parents to center parcs when i was about 13 and we met some lad who said he'd got some cider stashed in a bush so we went to get it but it became clear to me he was having a piss in a bottle, not collecting said cider. my friend seemingly didnt clock on... i let him have a few swigs before i told him :(
^ lowering the tone
of center parcs? working class bastard!
when i was on holiday with my cousin
there were these two german kids who always used to try and bully us off the ping pong table. Then obviously one of the german kids left so the other kid tried to become friends with us. We ignored him.
Maybe they thought it was Poland?
the french 'young' olympics
Every year, the kids at the holiday resport would be forced into a 'non comeptetive olympics' (thats how they saw it, for fun of course and to keep the kids busy whilst the parents took to the long walks)
This included all sorts of sports, anyway this caused much rivalries, good dutch swimmers, fancy french footballers, great 'jack of all trades' english kids.
Some of the parents (not usually the english) who decided to watch their kids every day got very competetive about their youngsters.
Not a rivalry
but when I was 11 or so I saved a German boy from drowning in the swimming pool, then swam off because I was embarassed.
That's international solidarity right there.
Maybe he thought you were Japan?
it's possible
I am white, and being embarassed my face would resemble a red circle. I think you've cracked it!
some kids on holiday once
shouted at me, "ooo little mummys boy?!"
i ran back to find my mum
School trip, year 9.
I was on a history trip in Normandy with my very Welsh, welsh speaking school. Staying at our hotel were a group from a school in Farnham (very English, English speaking school in Surrey). Basically every evening my school would hurl abuse, crisps and coke at the Farnahm people, which was usually responded to with endless sheep puns.
I wasn't actaully a part of this, being English and from the Farnham area myself!