I love my husband

Colin and I have been meaning to take up swimming for a while now. I am a terrible swimmer and I get a little claustrophobic when I stick my head underwater, which makes me his new project. Tonight was the night. First we had to drop a movie off at the nearest movie rental store, which is in the next suburb over. I was a little anxious about the time because the pool closes at 8 and we were just leaving home at 6:20. We quickly bike over to the movie store but decide to take a different route to the pool, in the dark, and we’ve only ridden past the pool once before. We get incredibly lost. I didn’t recognize anything and when we finally figured out where we were I was astounded that we had gotten ourselves that turned around. Over here I have no concept of North, South, East, or West unless I can see ocean.

We end up getting to the pool just before 7. We run into our respective change rooms and as I’m about to walk into the little change booth, I notice a sign saying, ‘This is a change room, not a toilet’. Shudder. There are little baby cockroaches in my room but the tiny ones don’t bother me as much. As I root around my knapsack I realize that in my haste I forgot to pack a bathing suit top. What to do, what to do? I dissect my bag hoping that I just missed it and it’s hiding in there somewhere. Nope. I eventually decide to wear the ol’ bra and we’ll just use the outdoor, and hopefully dark, pool. I wrap up in my towel and go to meet Colin in the waiting area. He’s standing there holding my bathing suit top and asks me, “What took you so long?”

I think if any female had been in the opposite situation, the UNIVERSAL course of action upon the discovery of her mate’s swimming garb would be to walk over to the men’s change room and just yell inside that you’ve got his bathing suit. Alternatively, you could just send a nearby man in there with the suit.

I look at Colin holding my bathing suit and ask him what he thought I was going to walk out here wearing. “Couldn’t you figure out what was taking me so long?” I don’t even remember what his reply was because I was so stunned. I don’t blame him. I blame his gender.

We only did laps for 30 minutes but we had a great time and were pretty tired when we left. I was grateful for the bathing suit because the outdoor pool is extremely well lit AND there was a kids swim club practicing beside us. I think we’ve found our new hobby.

E.