I'm up to 20 laps of the channel now - 16 forward, 4 back (those back ones - the ones against the current - kick my butt.) The thing that I love the most, though, is watching the little toddlers with their parents. Somehow, I don't think that I'm going to be able to convince Mom to stand in the water and let me jump into the pool on her, though. Every once in a while, they break off and the whole class comes and floats around the channel for a couple of laps - it's kind of the equivalent of an obstacle course for the pool.
The dressing room is always an education in the diversity of the human body - on one side of me is this young woman who could be starring in a Zumba infomercial pulling on her Victoria Secret thong, and then on the other side of me is an 85 year old grandmother picking her breasts up off her navel to stuff them into her orthopedic bra. Then, there's the 50ish woman sitting absolutely starkers on the bench on her cell phone talking about a real estate deal she's working. I am truly grateful for the technical advances we've made this past 50 years - heck, it's kept me alive, but that offends my sense of propriety. You should not be able to transact any business that would require a bank loan without having to put a minimal amount of clothing on.
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