Gone swimming
Jul. 19th, 2004 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dream_labyrinthI do not like public pools.
For several reasons.
First, you have to pay to get in there. And if that wasn't bad enough, they only open at 10am. Oh please! Half of the day is over by the time you finally get into the water.
Secondly, other people. There are the ones who swim disgustingly slow, wearing sunglasses that shouldn't become wet, exchanging recipes and telling each other about their latest diseases and illnesses. Great. That's exactly what I want to know about people I've never seen before.
Then there are the teenagers who discuss their personal problems and relationships. Or who play around with their girlfriends, trying to pull down her bathingsuit or bikini bottom. If you do, please remember what your girlfriend looks like. Don't pull on the next bathingsuit you see.
Then there are the sporty guys, all potential Ironman participants, the guys that do three lanes why us normal mortals do one. Which is fine with me, as long as they look where they're going. Usually they do, and don'tbother the other swimmers much, so they're the least bothering kind of people.
The kids are worse. The ones who just learned to swim but mainly spent their time jumping into the water from the side, not paying attention wo whether somebody's swimming there. Their parents should tell them that it's dangerous to jump on somebody else's back.
Who else? People who swim across. This is not the way you're supposed to swim. OK, so if 50 meters id too far for you and you need to swim across, be careful where you're going. As this category of people oftentimes is the same as the first one I mentioned, they don't.
There are people who think everybody should get out of their way, even if the person coming right at them is doing backstroke and therefore cannot see where s/he's going. If you can see where you are going, that just watch where you are going!
The most obnoxious category, though, are the people who try to deny the passing of time. You should not wear something that was invented after your birth. Women who might have been beautiful sometime before WWI should not wear bikinis. Especially not white ones, as these have the tendency to become see through when wet. If you are male and over 50 years old, you should not wear something that looks like a bikini bottom for a 20-year-old woman, if it's possible to see it at all underneath your belly.
I don't really care if somebody's fat, I just don't want to be forced to see it all the time. And if your belly hangs low enough to hit your knees, it's time to start a diet.
I keep seeing tattoed women older than my mother. Makes me wonder how all the pierced and tattoed girls my age will look like when they are 50. That is something they should consider before having somebody inject ink in their skin. If the beautiful eagle you have on your backside starts resembling a goose, it's not sexy anymore.
OK, so I'm intolerant. I don't believe the human body is as beautiful as many people think it. And I don't think it brave or a sign of self-confidence to show every bit of your body to people who really don't want to know.
For several reasons.
First, you have to pay to get in there. And if that wasn't bad enough, they only open at 10am. Oh please! Half of the day is over by the time you finally get into the water.
Secondly, other people. There are the ones who swim disgustingly slow, wearing sunglasses that shouldn't become wet, exchanging recipes and telling each other about their latest diseases and illnesses. Great. That's exactly what I want to know about people I've never seen before.
Then there are the teenagers who discuss their personal problems and relationships. Or who play around with their girlfriends, trying to pull down her bathingsuit or bikini bottom. If you do, please remember what your girlfriend looks like. Don't pull on the next bathingsuit you see.
Then there are the sporty guys, all potential Ironman participants, the guys that do three lanes why us normal mortals do one. Which is fine with me, as long as they look where they're going. Usually they do, and don'tbother the other swimmers much, so they're the least bothering kind of people.
The kids are worse. The ones who just learned to swim but mainly spent their time jumping into the water from the side, not paying attention wo whether somebody's swimming there. Their parents should tell them that it's dangerous to jump on somebody else's back.
Who else? People who swim across. This is not the way you're supposed to swim. OK, so if 50 meters id too far for you and you need to swim across, be careful where you're going. As this category of people oftentimes is the same as the first one I mentioned, they don't.
There are people who think everybody should get out of their way, even if the person coming right at them is doing backstroke and therefore cannot see where s/he's going. If you can see where you are going, that just watch where you are going!
The most obnoxious category, though, are the people who try to deny the passing of time. You should not wear something that was invented after your birth. Women who might have been beautiful sometime before WWI should not wear bikinis. Especially not white ones, as these have the tendency to become see through when wet. If you are male and over 50 years old, you should not wear something that looks like a bikini bottom for a 20-year-old woman, if it's possible to see it at all underneath your belly.
I don't really care if somebody's fat, I just don't want to be forced to see it all the time. And if your belly hangs low enough to hit your knees, it's time to start a diet.
I keep seeing tattoed women older than my mother. Makes me wonder how all the pierced and tattoed girls my age will look like when they are 50. That is something they should consider before having somebody inject ink in their skin. If the beautiful eagle you have on your backside starts resembling a goose, it's not sexy anymore.
OK, so I'm intolerant. I don't believe the human body is as beautiful as many people think it. And I don't think it brave or a sign of self-confidence to show every bit of your body to people who really don't want to know.
