Mom gets back at cruel P.E. teacher for making kids run in the blistering heat: 'No one likes him!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Mar 12, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Everyone had an unnecessarily toxic gym teacher at one point in their schooling. Did they motivate you to be better about exercising? No. Did their cruel tactics build character in you? No. Were any of their methods productive besides helping you learn how to avoid the wrath of a bad person? Certainly not! 

Of course, there are effective gym teachers out there, but today, we are talking about the bad apples that need to be called out. So with that in mind, this post goes out to any of you who had to endure a toxic P.E. "educator" during your adolescence. Those of us who had to do pushups every time you didn't catch a ball understand where this Redditor's mother was coming from when she enacted her petty revenge. Her daughter shared how her mother's volunteer work at the school canteen provided her with the perfect opportunity to ensure that her daughter's eternally angry P.E. teacher got shortchanged when it came to ordering his favorite lunchtime tea cakes. 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and best reactions. For more, check out this post about a Karen who tried to get her neighbor fired.

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    A P.E. teacher got the smallest 12 teacake for several years and didn't know why For this Petty Revenge there needs to be a little background information.
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    When I was in high school back in the 80's, my mother did volunteer work in the high school canteen, along with a few others that had their children at the school too. This canteen served both the students, staff and teachers. Like most canteens of the time and area, we had meat pies, sausage rolls, (and a particular favourite of a buttered bun, with a sausage roll in it & tomato sauce. As we used to say "buttered bun sausage roll 'n sauce thanks") a variety of sandwiches, cakes, drinks, etc. On
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    This was very popular! {For those that don't know what a tea cake is, think of a slight sweet white bread with sultanas in it and pink icing in top. These things were usually a little larger than 30cm (12 inches) long, approximately 16 to 18cm (6 1/3 to 7 inches) wide, and about 5 to 7cm (2 to 2 3/4 inches) high.} The canteen would cut them in half and then slice them down the centre and butter them. Very yummy, but not so good for you, this was the 80's. Bite me! :)
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    One day there was a cross-country run for P.E. (physical exercise as it was called back then) and everyone had to do this run of about 5km (just over 3 miles). This particular day was about 30° to 35°C (86° to 95° F) might have even been hotter I can't remember but it was HOT! The cross country run was in the morning and lunchtime wasn't long afterwards so if you finished the run early you could go to lunch. My mum was in the canteen and noticed all these students coming up to the serving window
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    profusely sweating and looking like some were suffering from heat stroke. After seeing so many she asked why they were all so hot and sweaty and of course they all said "the cross country" My mum used to work at a very reputable children's Hospital in England before they came to Australia, so basically she knew her stuff! Having a huge stature of massive 4 feet and 5 1/2 inches (136
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    cm) she walked down to the boys quadrangle where the P.E. teachers rooms were and proceeded to, in front of all the boys, rip strips off the P.E. teacher responsible for conducting the cross country on such a hot day, (back in those days we weren't allowed to bring a bottle of water either. Madness!) My mum didn't allow him to get a word in edge ways! All the boys watching were laughing and joking how such a short lady was putting the tall P.E. teacher in his place.
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    Now for the petty revenge! My mum went back to the canteen and of course told all the other canteen ladies, what had just happened and why all the kids are looking really hot, flustered and about to collapse!
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    This teacher always got a 1/2 tea cake for recess, so the next day my mum found the smallest tea cake, and cut it "not very in half" ... And that teacher got the short end of the stick so to speak. All the other canteen ladies thought that was a fitting punishment for putting, not only their children, but all the other children through a very unnecessary run on such a hot day. This was then adopted so that teacher automatically got the smallest 1/2 tea cake. This continued for a few years till t
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    Now, several years later I was recounting this story to a friend and his friends. I got to the end of the story and one of my friends friend asked if that was at ***** high school, the school I went too. I said sure was! A slight pause and they then said "my dad was that P.E. teacher" ... I froze and thought Oh I've stuffed up here! They then smiled and said "it's ok, he's a {see you next Tuesday}! No one likes him"
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    She mentioned her Dad had complained about always getting a small 1/2 tea cake. Now she knew why, but wasn't going to tell her Dad. I wonder if she ever did... Petty Revenge complete!
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    Unfortunately my mum passed away quite a few years ago and won't ever know that her petty revenge has been spread to the world for others to enjoy. Thanks Mum for the greatest of times!
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    Dougally 4 hr. ago The sweet sticky bun with pink icing and butter sounds very Australian. As does the revenge. 169 Reply Share
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    Dranask 4 hr. ago His Teacake was probably the one that was most carefully cut. It was a karmalised one.
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    aussiesnrg OP. 4 hr. ago It was! Karmalised! Brilliant
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    ImSoSorryCharlie 4 hr. ago Thanks for the conversions to our stupid freedom units
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    aussiesnrg OP. 4 hr. ago Not a problem! It helps make more sense of the story if you don't use metric.
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    damselbdam · 4 hr. ago Pray tell, what does "spat the dummy" mean?
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    aussiesnrg OP. 4 hr. ago Ahhh that means they got upset and exclaimed words in a verbose and forceful manner. ;)
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    Lia_Delphine 4 hr. ago Buttered bread roll, Sausage roll and tomato sauce a 3 in one. My wife remembers these so fondly lol.
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