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The Teen Commandments

Your Turn: P.E. Humiliation & Tea Bagging

The Teen Commandments

Sara Cox

Sara Cox, Funny, Personal Journals, Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Kids, 90s, Teenagers, Comedy, Throwback, Parenting, Nostalgia

4.9834 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Who remembers those humiliating P.E. lessons where your teachers made you strip off?! WELL, Sara and Clare painfully reminisce in today's episode, whilst also reading out more of your brilliant stories about mishaps whilst youth hosteling, trying to remain the 'cool uncle', and tea bagging graves...


If you've got a story to tell, we want to hear it! Email hello@teencommandments.co.uk


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of Teen Commandments contains some adult topics and some bad language, so maybe don't let the young kids here.

0:07.3

Hello, Claire Hamilton.

0:08.4

Hello, Sarah Carr.

0:09.4

Hello, lovely people.

0:10.5

Welcome to Teen Commandments, Your Turn, the show where we try to make sense of the often and fascinating brains about teenagers and we do it through your excellent stories.

0:18.2

Thanks so much for sending such crackers in as ever. Hello at teen commandments.co.uk.U.K. That address again, Claire.

0:25.2

Hello at team commandments.commodments.com.com. Very nice. We are there as well on Facebook.

0:29.7

If you want to go and join in with Claire's Facebook gang. And wherever you listen to us,

0:34.8

do leave a little comment, leave a little review. It really helps so that Claire can do want from the salon and leave hairdressing behind her.

0:45.1

Excellent stories as ever.

0:47.4

Do you want to kick off?

0:48.5

Okay, I will kick off with the hopeful Mrs Williams.

0:51.9

This is the lady who's written in before and she refers to herself

0:54.5

as Mrs. Williams because she has a big thing for Robbie. Oh, very nice. Hi, Mrs. Williams.

1:00.9

Hi, lovely ladies. Please keep me anonymous. Although she wants to, Mrs. Williams. Yeah, it's not

1:06.2

really her, that's Robby. Because she wants to marry Robbie. She's not really married to

1:10.2

Robby. She's not really called Mrs. Williams. Okay. I wanted to share something that happened to me when I was a teen. It was the early 90s and I was probably around 12. I had very little confidence in myself made worse because I had developed earlier than many of my classmates, which made me feel like I stood out in a way I didn't want to. Back in those days,

1:29.3

the school had showers which had to be used after PA. Oh, the dreaded showers. Absolutely mortifying

1:35.3

for most of us made even worse because a teacher would stand and check that you had undressed

1:40.1

and actually went into the showers. Oh, I mean, It was awful, won't it? Just traumatising. Why was that? It's so weird. We've spoke about it before. Yeah. But it's just so weird. You had to get naked. And you were watched to make sure that you went in there. And shouted at it. It was quite aggressive, wasn't it? And how could they not know that that was traumatising? Or does it just go on because that's what happened to them at school? So that's what they did to us. It doesn't happen now. I'm pretty sure. Now, I don't think my daughter has to shower after games and stuff now. My daughter would have refused and I would have stuck up for that, you know. Quite right. So it's just so horrible when you can't find any other word for it. It's horrible, isn't it when you look back on that? Yeah, it really is. It's humiliating. It's embarrassing. You know, your body's changing and you don't want to show anyone your body, never mind be watched, you know, while a Scottish woman with a tight perm, screams at you to get through the shower. I'm sure our teacher had a whistle. I'm sure she used to blow a whistle. She would have had a whistle. Does she blow it in the shower? Or the acoustics in a shower as well. Not good. This particular day, we had finished PE and we were back in the changing rooms and waiting to use

2:51.1

the showers. They were the communal type of showers that a few of you used at the same time,

2:56.0

no such thing as doors for privacy. We had to line up in our towels and wait to go in.

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