Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 14, 2014

I remember that… In gym class at school, the teacher always had another student climb it. I never saw a gym teacher do more with the rope than hold it still while we all tried it.

At the YMCA though, the phys ed instructor always climbed the rope… I always thought that was odd.

Also there were no knots in it… Straight rope… it was tough.

Where’s the golden parachute landing for rich CEOs?That’s right, there aren’t any.

^Many may be holding down the end of that rope,with their necks?

Is that guy standing there Charlie Brown…?!

My gym teacher was a Marine. He never told us to do anything he hadn’t done… dammit.

I hope it’s a looooooooooong climb.

Jacob may have seen a corporate ladder, but Judas used a rope.

always wondered why climbing rope will win the cold war and be useful later in life.

I guess not many made it!!!

I could never climb that rope. So frustrating!

I want to go where my cats and dogs went!

I went to many schools due to being an army brat. My father retired in the summer after my 6th grade, so 7th was even more uneven. I went to 3 schools in 3 different cities (2 states). In all I went to 11 schools in 2 countries, 5 states. None of those had the rope thing.

My kids on the other hand have had a completely different experience. Once you get stationed at Bragg you never leave, so they both went kindergarten through COLLEGE! here.

I think your gym teacher was a in the closet pedophile and found a job he loved.

…ahhh… and then there were the rope burns…

Heaven is for the 1%ers. Cruising under yacht knots.

Damn sliding/pop up ads are harassment….would never even read them or buy their crap….

The challenge for this one is one handed while hold a 30 pound kettlebell weight over your head in your other hand..

Knots so fast…

I’d hate to see the entrance for butchers!

I wonder if the gym teachers climb that rope a little faster when they realize that it’s nothing more than a knotted fuse, and the Devil is holding it steady from the other end…….miss one knot and you are toast for eternity!

I couldn’t climb that straight rope either – until the gym teacher did his drill instructor routine on me…and then I went right up the thing! (He sure did know how to cuss)

Kvelduff, please explain how that statement applies to grade school….Doesn’t make any sense to me… If you can’t do math, you teach math? If you can’t do long division, you get a job teaching long division? Is it also that way in reading? Now in the arts, that may be the way it is sometimes, but than you can’t make money at art for many years…..Kurt Vonnegut sold cars to pay the rent….

In bootcamp (San Diego) we had the knotted rope, and it was hard! Much later, I learned the trick with the straight rope; it’s rhythm, swinging back and forth, without legs.

When I was in elementary school the rope wasn’t knotted. You pulled your full weight up.

YESSSSS!!!!

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach gym class.

so gym teachers? No guts, No glory? .I had no love for my high school gym teachers. Clipboard holding, stop watch carrying, whistle screaming…… .Much better now – No high school gym teachers. Just tai chi and sword classes.

The only push-ups my High School gym coaches ever did came from an ice cream truck.

I never saw them going up to the top of the rope. Or on the rope. I don’t think my gym teacher ever even touched a treadmill.