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Are_grits_groceries

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3. When I was in HS,

Reply to tridim (Reply #2)

Wed May 23, 2012, 09:11 AM

May 2012

our band took a trip to a music festival. At the hotel pool the 1st night, a kid who couldn't swim jumped in the deep end. He just stood calmly on the bottom. Somebody was paying attention through all the teenage noise and got him out. He was lucky!

He said he wasn't paying attention and thought it was shallower. Damndest thing I have ever seen. I was watching the hoopla from a window, but nobody could hear me.

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Drowning looks different than you think- Know the signs of drowning [View all] Are_grits_groceries May 2012 OP

Great post, so true! JNelson6563 May 2012 #1

On vacation with my family, I got a cramp in the hotel pool.. tridim May 2012 #2

When I was in HS, Are_grits_groceries May 2012 #3

EXACTLY the same thing happened to my grandma lapislzi May 2012 #5

Important post! lapislzi May 2012 #4

Very good advice badtoworse May 2012 #6

Many years ago, when my daughter was 3 and my son 5 ... Tracer May 2012 #7