#317 – Fin
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
The first few hundred times I went swimming was in a pool. Kiddie pools in the yard, the public pool down the road or the pool at the hotel. It was such a different experience the first time we went to a beach. “There are things swimming around in the water other than people! Something touched my leg! Aaaaaa!”
Tags: ocean, shark, swimming
I learned to swim in a lake; this was good for the swimming, bad for the constant paranoia that I was going to run into a dead fish if I went underwater.
Then there was the day there were a bunch of dead fish…all in all, it’s amazing I still like swimming at all, now that I think of it.
Am I the only one who finds the smile in the swimmer’s face on the last panel slightly disturbing?
Ignorance really is bliss. If he turned around I doubt he’d be smiling.
What about the smile on the shark?
Which one?
Yeah, that’s the part that was worrying me. It’s carcharodon comedienensis, the dreaded practical joker shark!
I don’t actually swim. More like prolonging drowning enough to get rescued.
Just finished a vacation in Florida, in which we went snorkeling. I was the only one that saw the shark.
Ah.. the ol’ double fake out.
Ahhhhahahaha. Humans.
I grew up accustomed to an in-ground pool with a liner, and swimming at the beach. The sand was nice and regular but I was definitely freaked out if anything touched my feet or legs.
Now I live near a lake, and am rarely willing to swim in it due to how much icky stuff there is for my feet to encounter.
I grew up watching Animal Planet(back when it wasn’t flooded with “reality shows”), so I’ve never been able to swim, knowing what lives in there.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!