HUMOR

She Has a Hard-On for Swimming Lessons

The woman has no chill when it comes to chlorine

Claire Franky
3 min readNov 27, 2023

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Photo by Haley Phelps on Unsplash

“You should really have her in swimming lessons, you know?”

Oh, sweet badger of fucks. Here we go.

Trying hard not to roll my eyes and use a sarcastic tone, I replied, “Why is that?”

My friend, Nicola took her eyes off her crazed two-year-old who was hitting another child in the play area, to look at me and say, “It’s a life skill.”

So is not being a little shit.

I glanced back at her child now kicking the slide and said, “I agree. I think it’s important that children learn how to swim….among other things.”

“Then get her started. I’ll send you the details of our swimming group,” Nicola stated before screaming her child’s name.

The kid ignored the calls of her mother and made her way over to my two-year-old, who was playing happily in the ball pit in front of us. Picking up a large green ball, she launched it at my child’s back.

She probably learned that in swimming lessons.

After comforting my child, who refused to leave my lap as The Punisher sat waiting for her return to the ball pit, I said, “I’m not starting her in swimming lessons…

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