How I learned to swim

[punkwalrus]

When my father bought his first yacht, my mother was convinced the very first thing I would do was drown alone at night when I fell off the boat peeing or something. Then I would be eaten by a large fish as a final insult to the 7 years she had raised me. The fact I swam at Tuckaho with friends didn't make a difference so they made me pass a

Comments

[vvalkyri]

Thank you for writing about this. He sounds like one of the good ones.

So did you work the pool later?

[punkwalrus]

No, actually. The only reason I was allowed at the pool was for the lessons or the swim test; my parents did not have a membership.