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...
Parents
Former Member
Reading these posts brings back alot of memories for me, as I am sure they bring back alot for everyone. One of my favorites was the time that we put a whole person in a swim cap while we were warming up, we were all about ten. In high school I decided to join the swim team and ended up getting fast enough times to go to the league finals. Everyone was talking about how and with what they were going to shave with. I had never shaved my legs before but since everyone was doing it, I did too. But no one had said to shave your arms, and as we were getting grouped up to head to the pool (it was across town) my friend started laughing at me because of my hairy arms. So I asked if he had a razor so I could shave them, and he produced one and I went to town on my left arm... totally dry. WOW! I cant really tell you how bad that sucked, but it was bad. I decided to wait to get to the locker room at the pool before working on my right arm, but before that I had to dip my left into the pool to cool off the razor burn.
Reading these posts brings back alot of memories for me, as I am sure they bring back alot for everyone. One of my favorites was the time that we put a whole person in a swim cap while we were warming up, we were all about ten. In high school I decided to join the swim team and ended up getting fast enough times to go to the league finals. Everyone was talking about how and with what they were going to shave with. I had never shaved my legs before but since everyone was doing it, I did too. But no one had said to shave your arms, and as we were getting grouped up to head to the pool (it was across town) my friend started laughing at me because of my hairy arms. So I asked if he had a razor so I could shave them, and he produced one and I went to town on my left arm... totally dry. WOW! I cant really tell you how bad that sucked, but it was bad. I decided to wait to get to the locker room at the pool before working on my right arm, but before that I had to dip my left into the pool to cool off the razor burn.
