I overheard some ladies talking yesterday and instructing their kids not to get in the ocean. Here are two of their reasons: 1) they just had lunch and lady said you'll get cramps, you can't swim for an hour, and 2) your face will turn to scales while food is in your stomach.
Later, a young woman was advising me on my newest problem, leg cramps, and she told me it was impossible for me to get leg cramps because I wasn't sprinting. She said that leg cramping is caused from dehydration and only a person who sprints will get dehydrated; not distance people, so she suggested I see a doctor.
We all know these are pretty ridiculous, have you overheard anyone advising others about "their myths?" The people making these comments were from England.
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The reason I mentioned they were from England was because this would normally be something a Honduran would say, they have a thousand old wives' tales, some you just can't believe; I could write a book on their tall tales.
Someone has already stolen your idea for the book:
http://tinyurl.com/2z638f
Good old England. We have all the best mind numbingly stupid myths:
My hairdresser told me that my hair would fall out if I didn't wear a swimming cap.
If you urinate in the pool it turns purple because of a special dye.
And my old swimming coach would tell anybody who listened that people of African descent / ethnicity could not swim well because of a 'special bone' in their foot. He had a whole long list of other such ethnically based 'facts'.
My favourite though is a salesman in a shop where I was trying to buy a suit. He complained that my arms and legs were both too long and that my feet were too big for any of his merchandise to fit me. All of which he blamed on swimming.
The reason I mentioned they were from England was because this would normally be something a Honduran would say, they have a thousand old wives' tales, some you just can't believe; I could write a book on their tall tales.
Someone has already stolen your idea for the book:
http://tinyurl.com/2z638f
Good old England. We have all the best mind numbingly stupid myths:
My hairdresser told me that my hair would fall out if I didn't wear a swimming cap.
If you urinate in the pool it turns purple because of a special dye.
And my old swimming coach would tell anybody who listened that people of African descent / ethnicity could not swim well because of a 'special bone' in their foot. He had a whole long list of other such ethnically based 'facts'.
My favourite though is a salesman in a shop where I was trying to buy a suit. He complained that my arms and legs were both too long and that my feet were too big for any of his merchandise to fit me. All of which he blamed on swimming.
