On Saturday morning, I took Jack to his first real swimming lesson. And by real, I mean, he is really learning how to swim, not just being a happy baby splashing in the water while I sang "Wheels on the Bus."
We arrived at the pool ready to go, and the teacher informed me that I would not be getting in the pool with Jack. I had assumed that I would be, given that (1) he can't swim and (2) he is too short to stand up in the shallow end. Apparently, I was the only parent who made that assumption, which also meant that I was the only adult there wearing a swimming suit.
Yeah.
And to make matters worse, we grown-ups did not get to sit on the side of the pool to watch, but rather had to sit out in the lobby.
You ever feel self-consious in a swimming suit? Well, imagine that you are also the only one who is NOT fully dressed. And that you are not sitting next to a pool.
Since changing into my real clothes was not an option (we needed to be there to watch in case the kidlets should need us), I decided to just adopt the proper attitude. As in, "Yeah, catlickers. I'm wearing my swimming suit. And I look freaking hot, don't I? Go ahead, take a good look. Can you tell I'm a marathoner? By the way, nice shorts. I can see you're really getting your money's worth out of that elastic waistband."
12 comments:
LOL...good save.
They don't let you sit by the pool. My guy is 7 and they let us sit by the pool.
Yeah, sitting there in my bathing suit would have been, well, I bit disconcerting for sure.
Oh my gawddd!! ROFLMAO!!! That is so hilarious!! You totally rock chica!! Totally rock! At least you weren't wearing a thong bikini . . .or were you? ;-)
Just discovered your blog, and already had the best laugh in a long while - thanks!
OMG, laughing soooooo bad! Way to tell those "catlickers"!!!!!
Hahaha I can totally picture that too--it's something that would happen to me. If I had a kid. And took him to a swimming class...
Haha, that's great. Way to turn it around on them in your head! :)
That's the funniest damn thing I've read all day! Good for you!
That's the way to do it...turn the focus and sarcasm on THEM. Elastic waist bands are a dead give away for the inactive.
Ha ha ha! Awesome. You rock.
I've just signed up my son for his first swim class too, but I know FOR SURE that it's both of us in the pool.
Leave it to a fellow Betsy to come up with the MOST appropriate slam!
Oh my. Nightmare. You handled it well. :D
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