In high school I had physical education class three times a week. I particularly remember two things about it. Firstly that it was the only class where girls and boys were segregated, which my classmates and I deeply regretted, d'it, and secondly the annually recurring problem with my shoe-laces.Algot Runeman wrote:aglet
a metal or plastic tube fixed tightly around each end of a shoelace ...
We, boys, had to wear shorts and tennis shoes and exercise bare-chested, winter or summer, while the occasionally glimpsed girls wore bra's and tops too, d'it. When changing clothes in the locker room, I often inadvertently stepped on the lace of a shoe, lifted the corresponding foot to the bench to tie up and of course tore off the aglet. I always finished the school year with frayed laces, the aglets having disappeared in the nooks and crannies under the benches and lockers.
Fortunately by the end of the school year my tennis shoes were almost worn out and I needed larger footwear and shorts for the next year anyway. When showing off my new shoes, my classmates used to say I was all agletter.
Also the girls then got larger bra's and tops to wear too, d'it ...
I think they should be UNantiquated...is that even a real word?? 
