Look at me swimming!
May.23, 2006, filed under Miscellany
So for today’s pool session we’ll be joined by our old chums Seal and Dolphin.
Yay!
It has been simply years since I had much to do with those two. And it’s nice seeing them again. Really it is.
But guys, I only have a very limited amount of time to swim in my lunch break and if you want me to get in my thirty lengths (33 today, actually) then you’re going to have to stop distracting me.
“Ooooh! What’s that shiny thing on the bottom right down there by the drain? There’s only a small chance the pressure on your goggles at 4m will pop your eye out. It might be interesting. It could be… TREASURE! Ooooh! Treasure! I like treasure! Quick! Let’s go see! Let’s go get the TREASURE!”
It wasn’t until today that I noticed the similarities between the Old Man and my prime puppy trainers, particularly Dolphin, at least in terms of being easily distracted by shiny things.
Dolphin isn’t really very camp. Neither is Seal. They’re just both very easily excited by stupid crap on the bottom of the pool. Like elastoplasts. And clumps of hair. They are especially excited by all things shiny, like lost earrings. I used to find loads of them when I was a kid.
It’s difficult to maintain your freestyle rhythm when one of them suddenly blats you round the side of the head (water in mouth, lots of coughing) to yell “LOOK! TREASURE!” because there’s some piece of green shite stuck to the drain. As far as they’re concerned it might be one of those hair band things and they’re great because they almost float so they’re just right for pushing around and sticking on the end of your nose and pretending they’re jellyfish or seaweed.
I really did miss those two.
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