The Right Choice

“Almost anyone can be comfortable in a skirt.” “Sam the Athlete” is a short story written by Stuart McLean, the story is about a boy named Sam who tries out for the field hockey team at his school. He decides to wear a skirt as a part of his team uniform. Sam made the right decision to continue to wear the skirt because it helped him feel like he was a part of the team, and because he had enjoyed wearing it. Sam had talked about how “everyone on the team [had worn] one,” when he said that it had meant that if all the girls on the team were wearing one then it was okay that he was also wearing one. Sam was so happy when he received the skirt that when he got home he “put his skirt on and [had] spent an hour working out some game moves in front of his mirror,” this just goes to show how happy he was to have received the skirt. When asked by his dad if he liked it he had said that he “loved it,” when he had said that it showed how he had felt towards wearing the skirt and if he did not enjoy wearing the skirt then would not have worn it in the first place.Sam made the right choice to wear the skirt because it helped him fit in with his teammates and because he had enjoyed wearing the skirt whenever he wore it.