During a group physical, how much time did you spend socializing with the others vs. quietly watching the proceedings?

Did you casually shoot the shit with them, or mostly keep to yourself?

A bit of each actually. In HS we were stripped to our underwear and lined up to see the doc. There was some talking and joking in the line. We went in to see the doc five at a time and once in the exam area, it was pretty much quiet. You could definitely tell who was experiencing a group exam for the first time.

We had group physicals starting in 6th grade to 12th if you played athletics. We were called ten at a time from the gymnasium into the outer nurses office in alphabetical order. We had to strip to our underwear and then we were called one by one for height, weight, and blood pressure by one of the school nurses and an assistant wrote everything on a form with a clipboard. Then we were told to stand in line against the wall in name order to wait to see the doctor.

When we were waiting it was guys talking and joking but once our name was called we immediately had to get weighed on the big scale then our height was taken with a ruler on our head to the diagram on the wall with our back up to it. Then we had to sit down while the nurse took our blood pressure. It wasn’t lost on us that they could see pretty much every thing through our tighty whiteys especially sitting down. Then we were mostly quiet as we waited to see the doctor and because I was towards the end we knew if it was a male or female doctor and that our underwear was coming down.