On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 21:42, ed tharp wrote: > I have a story about that. As a teenager, (having spent most my life in > the Fla.Keys) I, and most all my friends were excellent swimmers, and > water polo was the game most often played. We also liked to play "tag" > on a bridge with a "catwalk" (a walkway for fishing) that had a strong > current running under, that got stronger as you got closer to the middle > of the channel. We would run out the cat walk and jump in when "it" got > close, and swim back to shore fighting the current. one day when I was > about 14, we had spent the afternoon playing tag, and after we left, > some tourist had tried to swim back in from where we were jumping in and > swimming. needless to say, he got his name in the paper, and his wife > was quoted as saying he just jumped in where these kids had been jumping > in, but the current must have gotten worse since it carried him right > out to sea. I decided that night, that just because _I_ like to swim > upstream, does not mean I should let others see me swim upstream and > think that they can do it too, so we never played tag during the > daylight hours like that again, at least at that bridge.
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