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so suggest that the girl who was MARy in the nativity

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SCargot · 09/12/2009 16:18

then went on to be centre in a netball team?

just a leetle theory i am h'explorin

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EccentricaGallumbits · 09/12/2009 17:11

I was a prophet - with a beard. Played a mean Goal Defence. Was a prefect for a while but got the sack for calling the headmaster a facist bastard.

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SCargot · 09/12/2009 17:12

ok get me

slacker at netball
shit innkeeper at nativity
BUT HEAD GIRL and all round bossy boots

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LeQueen · 09/12/2009 17:13

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ShutUpandDrinkYourMulledWine · 09/12/2009 17:13

ME:
narrator (good at reading, tall and not cute)
wing defence (chronic lack of interest in netball)
no steady adoring boyfriend until uni

BEST FRIEND:
Mary
centre
had two boyfriends at high school (one after t'other) - went out for year and a half ish each and gave each other teddies and i love you keyrings

there may be something in this

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GetOrfMoiLand · 09/12/2009 17:14

I was narrator

Never played any sport (cannot catch a ball)

Was in recorder group and ran the school environmental club (squirm) when in Year 6

Am a geeky engineer as adult

Christ...

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SCargot · 09/12/2009 17:14

oh lol at this
"I have never met a Centre that I warmed to."

and dh being grumpyand dnonkey in field

rofl at you all

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Ewe · 09/12/2009 17:14

Mary at school was indeed centre in netball, love the theory.

I was once the Santa who got stuck in the chimney and I was shit at netball.

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SCargot · 09/12/2009 17:15

my dh rejected the chance to be a prefect

said he "couldnt see what was in it for him"

i on the other hand loved the power.

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SCargot · 09/12/2009 17:16

"I was Mary. Twice. Probably because I had long dark hair.
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NO NO NO
schoolgirl error
marys despite being middle eastern are always BLONdE

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LeQueen · 09/12/2009 17:17

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primarymum · 09/12/2009 17:17

Narrator in Nativity ( I was a bloody good reader, preens and
Wing attack at netball (too small for anything else!

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Meglet · 09/12/2009 17:24

I was narrator one year and mary another, although my entire speaking that year part was "why Joseph?" . Hated netball and have blocked out all memories of it.

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MrsMellowdrummer · 09/12/2009 17:26

I was Mary, and failed spectacularly as GD in netball.

I was third choice for the role though, after two other girls had rather grumpily turned it down. Perhaps that explains things.

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EccentricaGallumbits · 09/12/2009 17:26

i thougt angels were always blond?

I was in primary school. went mouse as a teenager and wa relegated to prophecy.

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poinsettydawg · 09/12/2009 17:27

I have no idea what happens to Marys. I have never been mates with a Mary. And in sport I was strictly in a defending role. Solid thighs.

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poinsettydawg · 09/12/2009 17:28

I was a shepherd with a triangle and hockey was my game.

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hohoholepew · 09/12/2009 17:29

We never had head girls/boys at my school. I wonder why.

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SerenityNowAKABleh · 09/12/2009 17:29

Erm, LeQueen. I'm now just disturbed.

Will ask at work tomorrow, who was what as we have a Head Boy and Head of Sports in this department. I bet the head of sports was Mary or something, Head Boy was Joseph. Hmmm.

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Shodan · 09/12/2009 17:30

I wasn't left or right back because I wsn't sporty, I don't think. (Games Captain one year, get me! And pretty good at athletics.)

It was cos I looked Mean and wasn't afraid to wield my stick at oncomers.(In the days before the bully-off was banned because it was 'dangerous'. )

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Sputnik · 09/12/2009 17:30

I was Mary, yet amongst the last to be picked for the netball team.
Always happy to buck a trend though.

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Lexilicious · 09/12/2009 17:35

I was a Narrator and a Centre. I was good at stuff, not particularly popular.

But

I don't know what age kids' personalities become fairly well set (if at all) but you can't make all the outgoing ones play third shepherd and force the shy ones to be Mary and Joseph. It will either scare the bejesus out of them or upset the balance of friendships or both (and probably some other random effects).

Some painfully shy people I knew at school are now vastly more popular and extrovert than anyone could have predicted. And the Marys and Centres are average. And some people who were little social hand grenades at 5 are still so.

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Lovecat · 09/12/2009 17:35

I was a Native American and Judas's assistant (don't ask) in the two nativities I participated in. I was specky and about 2 foot high until I hit 16, so always ended up on the bench with the fat asthmatic girls.

I recall the girl who was Mary was indeed CF, was "popular", a complete bully, sexually advanced for her age and pregnant by 15. Hah!

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CremeDeMenthe · 09/12/2009 17:36

I was Mary and Goal Defence.

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pagwatch · 09/12/2009 17:38

we never had head girl or prizes - apparently it would fuck with our self esteem.

I was always third girl from the left and goal defence.

DD was Mary and also Jack in school play - so i am expecting Captain of Netball and Rugby

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