We've all had them, your suit rips during a start, you accidentally sneeze on Michael Phelps, you burp or fart on the starting blocks, etc. (none of those happened to me...knock on wood).
What's your most embarassing swimming moment? (includes, meets, practice, anything swimming related)
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I'm keeping a running list. One of these days I'll sit down, rank them and let you all know what the winner is.
Dual meet versus Tennessee my freshman year at Texas. I was supposed to be this hot shot recruit... then I went 10:03 in the 1000 free and 4:57 in the 500. That was quite a wake up call, not to mention the fact that I was the laughing stock for a while.
Embarassing?? Perfectly respectable masters times! :applaud: :notworthy:
I was standing behind the blocks about 2 heats before my 100 back finals at conferences my freshman year of college and a girl taps me on the shoulder to tell me that my suit had ripped....right down the seam in the back. Darn paper suits!
I rushed into the locker room, which fortunately was right behind the starting block area and a girl on my team was in there showering. I was almost in tears not knowing what to do since my practice suit was in my bag on the other side of the pool. I kinda thought I'd just sit in the locker room and miss my event.
Mary told me to put on her speed suit. Ok, I was thin in college, but not nearly as thin as Mary and had a ton of trouble trying to put on her size 24 and still wet suit. I got it on and ran back out to the blocks and my heat was just getting in the pool so I barely made it. I don't remember how I did, but the memory of the suit incident will be fresh in my mind for a long time, even if it was 12 years ago!
The worst thing to happen ever to me was at the Key outdoor pool in DC. I changed and went out tot he deck. I did some stretching. got into the pool and did about half of my work out. An older woman walked up to the side of the pool and told me the bottom of my speedos were ripped out. I thanked her and got out. fortuneatley, I acted as if nothing were wrong and no one else said a thing to me. What was so terrible was that I knew about halfg of the other guys swimming inthe lap lanes.
I got dresses. I walked down P St to the sports shop and bought a new pair & returned to pool and finished my workout. I guess I was the only one embarassed. I wonder if anyone besides the lady noticed. I was freaked out .
These stories are a hoot and have given me the courage to tell one of my embarassing stories. :rolleyes:
I was about 16 and had just finished swim practice. I was coming out of the dressing room and my coach asked me a question. I thought he said "Do you drive an Audi?" I said "NO. I drive a Volkswagon." He and all my teammates proceeded to laugh so hard that they couldn't breathe. I'm standing there puzzled going , "WHATS SO FUNNY?" My coach proceeded to tell me that what he had in fact asked me was, "Do you have an "innie" or an "outtie" belly button!" I was soooo embarassed and was teased about for many years. In fact I still see my coach, Chris Davis, very frequently at Swimatlanta and he STILL asks me how my "Volkswagon" is! :rofl:
just wanted to chime in and say that Poolrat has one of the best signatures on the board....and I thought my signature was good...LOL!!
And that was an hillarious story swim4life....I have a similar type story that happened to a friend of mine who use to wait tables with me when I worked at the Olive Garden (back in Houston TX)....WARNING: Its a boderline racy kind of story (so if you're easily offended by slightly off color humor please DO NOT continue reading this!!...I hope I don't get suspended from the forum for this??)...Anyway the story goes like this: Some lady with an "accent" (like a brooklyn type northern accent) was sat at one of his recently bussed tables that did not have fresh silverware on it yet (dumb hostesses)....anyway, she asked him "where's my fork and knife"...and he thought she was just asking for a knife only (in a derogatory way so to speak...with the brooklyn type accent it sounded like a harsh request for a knife only if you know what I mean)....so he went and brought a knife back to the lady and started massively apologizing and such when she excaimed in an even louder voice..."I said I wanted a fork and knife what's wrong with you ...you don't understand plain English or what...etc..."
He turned 3 shades of red and said...please Mam I brought you a knife which is what you asked for o.k. there is no need to angry and use that kind of language...etc.. (By this time we all noticed this major ordeal developing)...Finally they both understood the confusion and both started laughing ...we all ran back to the wait station and laughed our butts off until we were almost crying.
Newmastersswimmer
Once in practice I did a really bad flip turn and somehow went under the lane rope and started swimming in the next lane over - still haven't figured out exactly what happened.
.... I enter room 118 (instead of room 102) and Now I'm in pre-calc mode....So I start my precalc lecture for the day and ask for questions over the hw assignment I gave the other day...etc...and about 5 minutes or so into the class someone raises his hand and says....excuse me but are you substituting for Mr. Dixon today? I look out over the crowd of students and then realize that I don't recognize any of them....Ah I answer....I guess Mr. Dixon is a little late today and I'm sure he will be here any minute...I then apologize for entering the wrong class....put my head down and crawl for the door.....
That is way too funny. :rofl:
My brother works for the college here and tells us about one of the older instructors that does this frequently. Used to really confuse the students but it's a big joke now.
Can you say "absent minded professor"?
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O.k. guys.....this doesn't exactly fit this thread topic because its not an embarressing swimming moment per-se....but it is most embarressing and it just happened to me about an hour ago. I teach a pre-calculus class at 12:00 today and an elementary algebra class at 10:00....the pre-calc class is in room 118, the elem alg class is further down the hall in room 102....so I'm heading to my elem alg class at 10:00 and when I pass room 118 my brain gets crossed and I enter room 118 (instead of room 102) and Now I'm in pre-calc mode....So I start my precalc lecture for the day and ask for questions over the hw assignment I gave the other day...etc...and about 5 minutes or so into the class someone raises his hand and says....excuse me but are you substituting for Mr. Dixon today? I look out over the crowd of students and then realize that I don't recognize any of them....Ah I answer....I guess Mr. Dixon is a little late today and I'm sure he will be here any minute...I then apologize for entering the wrong class....put my head down and crawl for the door.....So I get to my elem alg class late and procede as usual.....Talk about an example of a Southwest Airlines comercial where the final slogan is "Want to get away"....LOL!! OMG I have never been so embarressed in my life...LOL!! At least I don't have to face those students in Mr. Dixon'e Pre-Calcl class ever again...LOL!! (that is unless I see one or more of them down the road in a future semester that is....)
Newmastersswimmer
