The first two weeks of High School Football practice were known as the hell
weeks. Double practice sessions for two weeks in mid August in the
Sacramento valley. Naturally, no one took their stuff home to wash it as
there wasn't time (somehow, everyone always forgot at the end of the first
week). After the first two weeks, you could hardly breathe in the locker
room. The coach always made everyone take everything home the weekend
before school started and anyone who showed up for first day of school
practice without clean practice duds was sent home. Once past that
inspection, we used to see who could get away without laundry the longest.
Usually the coach would have to intervene again due to complaints from the
five gym periods before the football jocks took over. It was like a right
of passage.
CB
At 08:32 AM 2/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Gee, you guys took 'em home once a month? We didn't need no steenkin'
calendar. At the end of gym period, we balled up each item and threw it
against the wall of locker doors. If it fell off, it went back into the
locker. If it stuck, it went home to be washed.
Cheers!
DaveT
