ok, me, no, never. but i have a funny story...
i was helping a group of younger kids on a hike a few years ago and i was walking at the back with a the 2 weakest girls while the other helper was walking up front and they told me this story. it always makes me giggle...
now at my old school, where all these kids came from, we all have to listen to an assembly in year 9 about air cadets (basicaly recruitment). they'd gone home and given their parents the newsletter containing this information about the assembly and joining instructions etc and both their dads had been really keen that they joined (one of them being an only child and the other an eldest child - kinda keeping some family tradition).
well...the night came and they dutifuly went to training, waved off by proud dads etc. this being the first night, and with the the combination of superiors wanting to assert authority, the amount of exercise for these (not very sporty) girls and them only having gone to please their dads, it wasn't surprising that they weren't keen on returning the next week. however, they had promised their parents.
the next week came by and they were again sent off with their money to training, dragging their feet. they got to the gates ok. then, remembering the pain and effort last time, looked at each other without much enthusiasm and wondered why they were spending the evening doing something their dads wanted to do, not them. they decided to sneak off now whilst they hadn't been seen and use the money meant for training to buy fish and chips instead
now that makes me giggle in itself to imagine these 2 really not wanting to go, getting there and deciding to occupy themselves with something more enjoyable. but whilst they were buying their fish and chips, the other new cadet wanabes got taken on a run past the chippy, forcing the girls to hide in some bushes in a panic to avoid being seen and made to join in!
hehe, i can just see them jumping into bushes with chips <imagines>. they didn't say how they eplained that one to their proud dads...
