Swimmers sometimes play pranks on each other. Practical jokes. Please share yours.
It comes with the territory, we're a fun loving good natured bunch usually with a decent sense of humour.
Might be throwing ice water on someone in the shower, or throwing someones legs to one side just as they are diving.
Keep in mind, if you begin pranks there could be retaliation & revenge is a dish best served cold.
Share your yours & make sure nobody gets hurt.
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This isn't specifically swimming related, but it was pulled off by my college swim team, so maybe it counts.
My freshman year, the team had to come back to campus on New Year's Eve so we could leave on the bus for winter training early on New Year's Day. A bunch of the sophomore guys lived in an 8 person suite on campus, and they hosted a party. The TV was on and as the night went on we watched the various midnight celebrations in the different time zones (we were in central). As the night went on, let's just say people got merrier. One guy in particular was quite out of it.
Someone got the idea to tell him (he was an architecture major) that for the midnight celebration in Seattle they would be blowing up the Space Needle to make room for a new runway at the airport. (The previous year, the team was already at winter training for New Year's and had gone to see a midnight building demolition, which primed things nicely.) Everyone played along and at midnight Pacific time the fireworks went off and one of the other guys said something along the lines of, "I can't watch this!" and turned off the TV quickly enough that it did look sort of like they'd blown it up.
For the rest of winter training, every once in a while someone would say, "It's a shame about the Space Needle," and we'd once again be treated to a rant about how uncool it was that it'd been blown up for a runway.
This isn't specifically swimming related, but it was pulled off by my college swim team, so maybe it counts.
My freshman year, the team had to come back to campus on New Year's Eve so we could leave on the bus for winter training early on New Year's Day. A bunch of the sophomore guys lived in an 8 person suite on campus, and they hosted a party. The TV was on and as the night went on we watched the various midnight celebrations in the different time zones (we were in central). As the night went on, let's just say people got merrier. One guy in particular was quite out of it.
Someone got the idea to tell him (he was an architecture major) that for the midnight celebration in Seattle they would be blowing up the Space Needle to make room for a new runway at the airport. (The previous year, the team was already at winter training for New Year's and had gone to see a midnight building demolition, which primed things nicely.) Everyone played along and at midnight Pacific time the fireworks went off and one of the other guys said something along the lines of, "I can't watch this!" and turned off the TV quickly enough that it did look sort of like they'd blown it up.
For the rest of winter training, every once in a while someone would say, "It's a shame about the Space Needle," and we'd once again be treated to a rant about how uncool it was that it'd been blown up for a runway.
