Xander ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Between you and me, Vortex, you know it's because black women hate to get their hair wet.
har. I tried to be diplomatic about it. but, the advances in hair technology have made that much less of an issue. although, i still know people who sleep in chairs to not mess up their hair.
I can't float and I am white as they come. Must be my dense Irish/Scandinavian bones.
I can't float, but it never stopped me making the school swim team. My mother, aforementioned non-swimmer, enjoys the water, and floats with aplomb (no pun intended).
I found not being able to float helped my swimming, as I had to learn to take action to stay above water.
My sister is on her way to a charter school in Detroit for an interview.
The car in front of her has 3 people in it and they are passing a joint.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Is she rolling up the windows and turning off the AC, Aimee?
I can't swim underwater - I've always bobbed right back up to the surface or pretty close to it, even when I was skin and bones at 145 lbs. Nowadays I'd probably float on the surface like cork.
In a lake or a pool, I know I can get to land in any direction if I swim far enough. The ocean, NSM.
What ita and Brenda said. When I think "lake", I think Lake Michigan. Small and swimmable do not mesh with lake in my head.
I get weirder about lakes and oceans. Lakes because I fear various animals and oceans because I have nearly been drowned numerous times by powerful undertows (and because of animals).
This me, except for the undertow thing. I have this irrational fear being attacked by something under the water and not being able to plant my feet. I have no idea where it comes from. So I'm fine with a pond or lake until I can't touch bottom anymore.
I also nearly drowned in a creek when I was a kid. It wasn't super deep, but I fell in, inhaled a bunch of water as I landed and then the water was too murky to tell which way was up so I panicked. Luckily one of my friends pulled me out.
Swimming in a pool, I don't have a problem. Though I still can't make myself dive. I just can't force myself to leap headfirst into anything, water or no.
Is she rolling up the windows and turning off the AC, Aimee?
Heh. This is my sister - she's probably going to stop them and ask for a pass.
My legs don't float but the rest of me sure does.
My mom can't swim, but that has nothing to do with her background and everything to do with her weird mental blocks when it came to her mother as a teacher.