Humor In Swimming

Originally posted by Tom Ellison I took my sweats off, had my goggles in my hand and my big beach towel over my shoulder and I just walked out of the locker room buck naked onto deck …Too much information here for the imagination. :D Moving right along, here's a few for a laugh or two. One of the lifeguards at our pool, who plays water polo in high school, asked our coach if he could work out with us, although he's not old enough to join USMS, for stroke improvement. Last Thursday night, he shows up for practice, wearing a slightly customized Speedo. The coach's daughter (20) who swims in USMS immediately pointed the customization out to him. He had two holes in the rear end of his suit and his left cheek was clearly in view. Good thing someone had a spare suit. Dorothy, two of my teammates remind me that I used to be big time in missing heats. I thought that I had this well under control this season after almost missing a heat in October. (It was my first 100 free.) I did miss that heat, but got re-seeded ... with the ladies. :D Anyway, in February I was trying very hard to pay attention. I walked up to the block prior to my heat and at the last moment, started to adjust my goggles. No goggles! I had left the goggles with my stuff and I wear contact lenses, so I had to sit that one out. Then there was the time I was demonstrating a stroke to one of the kids to whom I teach basic swim lessons. (I wear board shorts over another suit because I will often sit down on the floor of our rec. pool when working with smaller kids.) This particular lesson was in the lap pool, so I dived off the wall at the deep end to do the demonstration. It must have been a pretthy good dive, I left the board shorts behind me. Thank goodness for wearing two suits. Finally, last year, the Aquatics Director at our pool, who wandered in during one of our practices told me that my crack was showing. I checked and thought my rear was covered. Well ... not quite. Seems that the Lycra in the suit had finally separated and everyone had something to crack up about.

Originally posted by Tom Ellison I took my sweats off, had my goggles in my hand and my big beach towel over my shoulder and I just walked out of the locker room buck naked onto deck …Too much information here for the imagination. :D Moving right along, here's a few for a laugh or two. One of the lifeguards at our pool, who plays water polo in high school, asked our coach if he could work out with us, although he's not old enough to join USMS, for stroke improvement. Last Thursday night, he shows up for practice, wearing a slightly customized Speedo. The coach's daughter (20) who swims in USMS immediately pointed the customization out to him. He had two holes in the rear end of his suit and his left cheek was clearly in view. Good thing someone had a spare suit. Dorothy, two of my teammates remind me that I used to be big time in missing heats. I thought that I had this well under control this season after almost missing a heat in October. (It was my first 100 free.) I did miss that heat, but got re-seeded ... with the ladies. :D Anyway, in February I was trying very hard to pay attention. I walked up to the block prior to my heat and at the last moment, started to adjust my goggles. No goggles! I had left the goggles with my stuff and I wear contact lenses, so I had to sit that one out. Then there was the time I was demonstrating a stroke to one of the kids to whom I teach basic swim lessons. (I wear board shorts over another suit because I will often sit down on the floor of our rec. pool when working with smaller kids.) This particular lesson was in the lap pool, so I dived off the wall at the deep end to do the demonstration. It must have been a pretthy good dive, I left the board shorts behind me. Thank goodness for wearing two suits. Finally, last year, the Aquatics Director at our pool, who wandered in during one of our practices told me that my crack was showing. I checked and thought my rear was covered. Well ... not quite. Seems that the Lycra in the suit had finally separated and everyone had something to crack up about.