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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As an age-group swimmer, I swam at a summer pool that had only 5 lanes. Visiting teams always got to pick their lanes for the meet, and never before had a visiting team NOT chosen lanes 2 and 4 (so that their swimmers never had to have an outside lane.)
One of the guys on the team had this great idea of smearing vaseline on the walls at the ends of lanes 2 and 4 just at the very end of warm-ups before a particular meet.
And that day for some unexplainable reason, the visiting coach decided that he would select lanes 1 and 3 for his team.
As an age-group swimmer, I swam at a summer pool that had only 5 lanes. Visiting teams always got to pick their lanes for the meet, and never before had a visiting team NOT chosen lanes 2 and 4 (so that their swimmers never had to have an outside lane.)
One of the guys on the team had this great idea of smearing vaseline on the walls at the ends of lanes 2 and 4 just at the very end of warm-ups before a particular meet.
And that day for some unexplainable reason, the visiting coach decided that he would select lanes 1 and 3 for his team.
