Oh the things you see....
We skipped organized swim practise and hit the public swim time for a leisurely swim (Fastlane effort was not in the cards this week but still need to get in the water). You see some wackadoo people at the pool. Especially the downtown "big pool". And not just in the water. I mean, yeah, you get the strangest strokes and oddball behaviours but the things I saw today... oh boy.
Wackadoo thing number 1:
Setting: the change room, me getting dressed, middle aged woman enters and procedes to prepare for swimming.
Internal monologue: is that? nooooo couldn't be! I mean really, Who swims in VELOUR? I mean SERIOUSLY? a velour swim suit??? Wow. I mean WOW!
Wackadoo thing number 2:
Setting: leaving the change room to meet Brian upstairs. pass a middle aged woman on the stairs coming in to the swim area. From outside.
Internal monologue: Where are her pants? no seriously. Shoes: check. shirt: check. bathing suit: check. Pants? Pants? Bueller? OK and for that matter why is she wearing her swim suit OVER her button down shirt? Interesting but seriously... WTF???
So yeah. People are strange. No wonder there are signs on not shaving, brushing your teeth, spitting or peeing in the common shower area. And signs instructing you how to use the hair drier (only on your head people). Because there is a subset of the population that really does need these reminders.
So remember people: First your swim suit THEN your shirt and don't forget your pants.
PS. as for the count down pic o the day: count the pigs. This is a first parter of a two part series entitled: But BLTs taste so darn good. Thanks to Dan-o-mite for the photos
5 comments:
oh man. A velour swimsuit must get very heavy and um.. unstretchy in the water.
Velour?? I know people used to swim in wool suits ..
You should add those to the ST "Strange Denizens of the Pool" thread (http://forum.slowtwitch.com/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Forum_F1/Strange_Denizens_of_the_Pool...._P1036721). I've been following it for over a year and no one yet has posted velour or swimsuit OVER clothes denizens.
That is too funny! It reminds me of the guy at the gym who always wears his Tri onesie to run on the treadmill. One time he wore running shorts over it, midway through the run he took his shorts off. If you're going to wear the onesie then flaunt it, dont wear shorts, think you're getting to warm, then sport the onesie.
You haven't seen the lady who swims in a full on suit...including pearls??? OH and her friend wears a full wet suit and snorkel.
No. Joke.
can you EVEN imagine the drag a button-down shirt would create?!?
i too wonder about the spitting, peeing and drying signs. but yeah, some people really are THAT stupid.
And while those signs are like instructions to those people, they are also like reminders to us non-velour-wearing normals that those people do in fact exist. so see - its actually a PSA all around.
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