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Thursday, November 4, 2021

Horseplay



 

Most swim clubs and YMCAs frowned on horseplay, but stuff happened.

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  1. Our high school swim class was conducted naked, but horseplay was a major no-no there, too.

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    1. My high school didn't even have a pool.

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    2. Mine didn’t either. School had to ‘buy’ time at the community center down the street when they gave Red Cross life saving course.

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    3. At least you had one nearby. We didn't, but we did have irrigation ponds for skinny dipping in the country.

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  2. Horseplay was strictly banned in my school's beautiful 1920s pool, needless to say. But the public swimming baths in the little county town near our country house had a notice that read "NO HORSEPLAY. NO PETTING.". I'll never forget - if only because we were on the paving stones next to a man in an extreme micro-bikini which the innocent little me couldn't understand was quite so fascinating - asking my father, "Papa, what is petting?" to which he replied "I'll tell you when you're 24." I'm sure he had my number right from the get go.

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