I'll start this by saying it was a long time ago, probably when I was around 12. So memories are hazy at best. And may be made up more from retellings of the story than the actual events themselves. I was at school, at the start of a PE class. Physical Education. Sports. Not my top subject, to say the least. I hated it. But this lesson had begun inside the sports hall, which at least meant we weren't running around the playing fields risking getting hurt, so that was a bonus. A slight aside, but the playing fields were terrible. Fields, frequented by people walking through dropping litter, including empty cans; and people walking their dogs. And picking up dog poop was really not a thing back then. People just left the heaps behind. And they mowed the fields with a tractor without cleaning up anything first. The result was fields coated in shredded metal cans that could cut you, and very spread out dog shit. Which they expected us kids to run around on, and not mind being tackled to the ground in rugby. Anyway, we were all sitting at one end of the sports hall, while the PE teacher was taking about something. I wasn't taking any notice at all. Until my I noticed quite a few people had their hands up, and my friend next to me nudged me firmly and said "quick, stick your hand up!" I did. The teacher took names for everyone who had their hands up. I had no idea what I'd volunteered for. My friend explained it was to go and have tennis coaching with Virginia Wade. She was a successful tennis player, probably the most famous player at the time. And I'd never really played tennis. But, he argued, it would be a good skive. Better than whatever else we'd be doing. And I had to admit, while I wouldn't have signed up if I'd known, it didn't sound too bad. It was a lot of kids, all at once, with one famous tennis player, so I can't honestly say we learned much, but as we were taking turns to fire shots back at her, my shot went somewhere she wasn't expecting, and she missed it. I got a shot past Virgina Wade. No, it wasn't any great skill. Luck, probably along with being so incompetent it made me unpredictable. But, technically, I did do it.