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.
Here's UT's Michael Klueh's winning ticket
YouTube- Michael Klueh's Lottery Win
Hmmm. This discussion seems to belong with the "Do real (men) swimmers moisturize?" (Except it's the opposite; here everyone is boasting about this side of themselves; Dr. Izzy weighs in; continues to be curious)
Must be a boy thing, except for EW's comment. Izzzz it a boy thing?
For example, my brother and friends moved all of their roommate's belongings into another room on the first day of freshman year; kid came back; called the cops; brother and friends got in big trouble.
Who knows how they made it, but a 2 mile run on a full stomach in street clothes, sweatshirts, and stuff isn't fun when you're racing the clock.
That's a pretty good one!
In college, our coach had a rule that everyone had to be in the water for warmup before the 1st person (who got in) was able to finish a 50. If that person touched the wall and you were still dry, you had to put on a 8-12 lb weight belt for the rest of the 800-1,000 warmup. It was common practice to just hop in a split second before that person finished the first 50.
If you were talking and not paying attention, you would hear the splash of someone getting in and you would get your butt in gear. One morning, I told a couple of the guys to shield me as I slid into the pool quietly. I swam a 50 under water and they were ready to jump in right before I touched the wall, but not too early so as to make others take notice. So I finished the 50, the guys that knew had jumped in at the last second, and my coach saw that everyone else was nailed. The entire women's team plus half of the men had to wear wear belts that morning. Victory!
Not really a prank, but during the swim season, we would, at four in the morning, show up to people's houses, wake them up while dressed in gorilla suits, grab them, cover them in shaving cream, take them downstairs, outside, put them in the trunk of a hatchback, and then drive them to a picnic area, make them march in line, while we were armed with water guns, and have a nice breakfast. This was shut down after a couple of years, we didn't know where everyone lived and we went into the wrong house several times. People should really lock their doors.
