Swimming and Baywatch
Last weekend, my wife and I decided to take my 2 1/2 year old daughter, Netra for a swim. The idea was to show her a good time and parallely introduce her to the crutial life-saving skill of swimming which is also a great exercise.
If you watch Baywatch (”watch baywatch”, interesting pun that, eh?) as often as I do, you will realize that the people in baywatch have 2 things in common. 1. They have terrific bodies and 2. They are excellent swimmers (the third thing is that they all seem to have remarkably low level of IQ). I agree that very few people watch baywatch for the swimming part, but thats beside the point.
Now I am not going to mislead you by saying that point 2 caused point 1. The people in baywatch have terrific bodies because the director of baywatch hired such people to play the roles, though I suspect David Hasselhoff is old enough to be Pam’s great grand father. This way, David is very similar to our local heroes who get paired with heroines less than half their age.
Coming back, Netra was initially very excited about splashing around in a huge pool (about 3 feet deep), but her initial euphoria soon evaporate when she realized that her foot wouldnt even touch the floor and she had to hang around my neck to stay clear. However, she soon recovered and had a “whale of a time” splashing water on my face while clinging on to my neck with one hand (kids have strange ways of displaying gratitude) and doubled up with joy when I pretended to cringe and get hassled.