What a mistake that was. Sally won every time. The other girls in class rejected her because she was trying to be popular with the boys and she didn’t join in on any of the games the girls played. The boys rejected her because girls had no right to win all the marbles and skite (an Australian, New Zealand, Scottish use of the word meaning “to brag”) about it. The teachers thought she was obsessive about playing marbles and told her to stop. Her parents agreed. She now had jars of victory marbles on her desk at home.
Mrs. Strickland, the mother of Andrew, made an official complaint to the school: why is a girl playing a boys’ sport? The school pointed out that marbles wasn’t just a boys’ sport but an asexual sport. Mrs. Strickland, the mother of Andrew, wasn’t too sure about that. She wasn’t having her son at his age indulging in an asexual sport. What is this world coming too? Next thing they’ll be putting condoms in the girls’ bathroom. But the school insisted: marbles is an asexual sport.
Well, Mrs. Strickland, the mother of Andrew, got herself organized. She phoned other parents, and a Federation was formed whose aim was to prevent the school from encouraging the playing of asexual sports. The head teacher, Mz. Fok-Hing Wong, declared that as far as she was concerned all sports at primary school were asexual.
Mrs. Strickland’s Federation Undermining Canality in Sports (FUCS) was outraged. “This is so grubby,” said Mrs. Judith Averill. “Utterly grubby.” As far as can be ascertained the outrage continues.
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