Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
I spoke to my 11 year old sister today on the phone, (she lives in Australia, I live a long, long way away). She told me that she got picked first for netball today. I was like;
"What, they nominated two kids to be captain and then you all stood in a line and got picked one by one?"
"Yep. And I got picked first!"
"That's great," I said, but inside I was seething. I never got picked first, if anything I was the last pick. Which is funny because after school I was the only one of my class to make a living from sport.
I had assumed that the school system would have phased this sort of stuff out by now. If anything is designed to make kids feel like a piece of [censored] it's watching all the other kids being picked, desperately hoping that the little bastard who is captain is going to pick you, until finally you're picked because there's nobody else left.
And then you play like crap and confirm why you're last pick.
So were you guys first or last pick? And were any of you the captains? Oh man, to be the captain and GET TO PICK! That was a dream.....
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