Humor In Swimming

Connie: The way I count... I am gald the 500 SCY free is just 20 lengths....If it was 21....I'd probably get arrested...

Stories eh? Hmm.... sooo many. A guy on my friend's club team (Woodlands in TX I think) was in the finals Jr. Nationals in the 50 fr. (think that was the event). Anyway, he's a black kid & the announcers would announce them anyway they liked. So the kid had them announce himself as "Chocolate Thunder" hehe. One time I fell asleep during a kick set. Waking up breathing water is not fun. One time in college friends bet me a $1 (standard gentlemen's bet for us) I wouldn't do a 50 naked during practice -mixed practice. I won me a $1 :D Then there was guy on my club team who did a 1650 at IUPUI naked. Got up on the block with his suit untied, dove in, off came the suit. The officials were not happy. In HS during diving one teammate was listening to his head phones very loud. So loud in fact, the divers on the other side of the pool could hear it. So I tap Mike on the arm to get his attention to tell him to turn it down. I tap him, he ignores me. I tap him again - still ignores me. I tap him a third time to which he responds YELLING (as he can't hear his own voice) - as a diver is on the board - "WHAT THE F---!" The entire crowd then is staring at him and we all just start laughing at him. Then there's the stories outta the pool at parties in college ;)

Hope you don't mind, but this one happened after a day of Surfing in Newport Beach. Standing on the corner of Pacific Coast HWY and Orange St. waiting for the light to change, leaned my surfboard up against a pole, started waving to a girl I had a crush on as she was standing on the other side of the HWY, and my BEST friend came up behind me and dropped my shorts to the ground! Kept waving until the light changed, picked up my shorts, my surfboard and my Ego and went home!:D

Originally posted by tjburk Hope you don't mind, but this one happened after a day of Surfing in Newport Beach. Standing on the corner of Pacific Coast HWY and Orange St. waiting for the light to change, leaned my surfboard up against a pole, started waving to a girl I had a crush on as she was standing on the other side of the HWY, and my BEST friend came up behind me and dropped my shorts to the ground! Kept waving until the light changed, picked up my shorts, my surfboard and my Ego and went home!:D oopsie! Hey, what are friends for! ;) Oh, speaking of newport, you probably know where thelocal watering hole, Mutt Lynche's is at the newport pier. One late morning iwas rollerblading there, stopped at a scack kiosk jsut next to the place, and for some silly reason, passed out (I think i had a temporary potassium dficiancy or sime silly thing), by the time I woke up, there was a fire truck, and ambulance and two cop cars there, righ in front of the watering hole. me in the middle, flat on the ground, wioth nothing but a swimsuit and rollerblades on. Yikes!

Originally posted by Tom Ellison Connie: The way I count... I am gald the 500 SCY free is just 20 lengths....If it was 21....I'd probably get arrested... Arrested? Okay, that one zinged right over my head?

Backman...you poor guy....err.....that poor girl....

Connie: Hint... I have ten fingers...... and ten toes.....

As an age grouper a girl on our team (she was in high school) was so late for practice... we were all sitting in the weight room with our suits on for our pre-practice meeting. She strolls in late with her very white bra underneath her two suits. She sits down and everybody, duh, was staring at her. Because the coach was talking nobody would say anything, although I think the boys were too busy drooling! (They had probably seen their first bra!) It was probably only a minute when the girl next to her whispers. The next thing you hear is a very shrieky, "Oh my God!" and she darted out of the room. I have to hand it to her she did come back out and do the workout. :)

Hi Emmett, I thought you were going to say that you tossed her coifness into the pool... I can't believe you did "that", wait, yes I can.;) Going to Nationals?

Before I went to my first meet, I had been to many, many meets with my kids. Some of those meets did not bull pen and I was always preaching to my kids to make sure they did not miss their events, pay attention, lah de dah. Well my first meet was 2 years ago. I had brought my daughter who was 8 at the time. This place had a competition pool and another pool with a slide. So until the pool with the slide opened up, my daughter sat in there reading and coloring. I went to check on her and heard my name being yelled. I turned and saw my coach waving frantically, so I moseyed over in time to see my heat of backstroke starting, whoops. My kids have never missed their heats, so I had a hard time living that one down!