Friday, 3 October 2008

Whatever Next?

I discovered something today while taking my son to the local pool for a swim. You are not allowed to dive in. It was very quiet. I made sure there was nobody near me, then I dived in, half hero/half porpoise, swam gracefully beneath the water, and surfaced like a God of the ancient world. Only to be met by the purposeful striding of a pool attendant, who was, striding purposefully in my direction. Not across the water you understand. They're not that powerful... 'Oh, are we not allowed to dive in?'
'No.'
'I see. Sorry about that.'
There were signs everywhere of course, featuring an image of a person diving into the pool, inside a red circle with a red line through the middle. Along with the words 'NO DIVING.'

Now if we were to conduct a Family Fortunes style quiz to find the 'top ten things people do in swimming pools', I bet that 'diving' would probably appear directly beneath 'swimming' and 'peeing'.

I'm just saying...

3 comments:

Michael A. Dangerously said...

Don't worry.

Soon there will be "no wading" and "no floating".

Rossy said...

I hope you promptly splashed the attendant in a rebelious fashion

BadAlbert said...

No, but I said 'fuck you!' really loudly in my head!