I was surfing the web for my swimming class to find a couple of articles on swimming, when I came across an anecdote that was so funny I almost died laughing:
I teach group and private swim lessons at our local Y and am constantly amazed and entertained by the comments from the kids. Last year, little Ben, 5 years old, was swimming backstroke, eyes to the ceiling, goggles bigger than his head, blonde hair falling in his face. I'm watching from the side, signaling to kick and streamline. All of a sudden he yells out "Miss Barbara!""What Ben?" I reply, still making kicking motions with my arms. And loudly comes this little voice echoing throughout the pool "I want to eat you like a strawberry!". I thought the lifeguards were going to fall out of their chairs. What could I say? "Keep kicking Ben, just keep kicking!"
I didn't use this for my class (it's not copyrighted by the way, and it's not my personal story), but it made me realize that there's got to be a lot more swimming humour out there.
(Of course I could mention the time where I smashed my head twice in one lap swimming backstroke. They moved the backstroke flags!)
I'm interested to hear more...
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This happened today at my workout... actually two things. We were doing timed sets and using the blocks. when I got on my block, I was standing on top of it and I started singing (and at one point started to do dancing arm motions) one of my parodies about the blocks. I stopped singing in the middle and one of my teammates said "Don't stop, I think it sounds cute!" and she and I started chuckling. on another timed drill, I got on my block and my formation was a bit off and I flopped (BIG TIME!) and tried to catch up with my team mates, but while I was swimming (Breaststroke) and for every stoke I let out a high pitch Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow...
This happened today at my workout... actually two things. We were doing timed sets and using the blocks. when I got on my block, I was standing on top of it and I started singing (and at one point started to do dancing arm motions) one of my parodies about the blocks. I stopped singing in the middle and one of my teammates said "Don't stop, I think it sounds cute!" and she and I started chuckling. on another timed drill, I got on my block and my formation was a bit off and I flopped (BIG TIME!) and tried to catch up with my team mates, but while I was swimming (Breaststroke) and for every stoke I let out a high pitch Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow...
