Water ! Water ! Everywhere .. Not a Soul to drown ?

Last Sunday a couple of my buddies called me to check if I wud go swimming. Well, the lake is more like my idea of swimming. But I settled for the pool in the gym. I went in jumped into the inviting waters of the pool and finished a lap.. only to realize that my buddies didnt really know how to swim. Well they cud swim if they were standing in less than 5 ft of water. Somehow I fail to comprehend that as swimming. Well.. the stupid me that I am.. I started giving tips on how to reduce 'the fear factor' involved in going into the deep waters. All 7 ft of them. One of buddies came into the deep waters.. to try and get over his phobia. So I was there right beside him, boosting his morale... I am no life-saver but.. ya.. I can push a man to safety in the hour of need. Luckily there were no incidents. My buddy was safely clutching the wall and he told me that he would try a dead float. Now that he was all safe and secure I started drifting away into the lane. Serendipity! I was doing a casual back stroke.. And I saw a couple of huge waves erupt where my buddy had been the last time. I straightened up and looked at my buddy. Then I went over to him and thot about giving him my had so that he could hold on to it and come back to safety. But .. No !!! I realised what would happen if I did that. If I have realised one thing from my past swimming and trying to teach swimming expriences twas that a drowning person's strength in water quadrapules ... maybe goes up ten-fold. Even the leanest drowning person becomes an alligator in water. He / She can pull down a truckload of ppl trying to save him / her into the water and try to drown them as if twas natural to be able to do that. Is there like a rule book or something I cud read to know all this stuff? I wud expect it to be out there somewhere. Hmmmm ... E-Bay. Stopping digressing. I swam around him grabbed him from behind his back and pushed him over to safety, asked him if he was alright and went to finish my lap. I came back and there he was, clutching the edge of the pool to dear life. And ... Yes ... And he was shivering.. Panic, Fright .. He had lost his nerves completely. After than point the whole deal was hilarious forever.

I was telling a freind of mine this story and she came up with a similar one.

She's about 5ft1 and 100 pounds maybe. She went swimming in the lake.. Yes in the lake.. with a friend of hers who is about 5ft10. The girls jumped into the pool and all was well until my friend realised that her buddy cudnt really SWIM. Maybe she shud have told her that. Dont U think .. Let me re-consider.. If I didnt know how to swim .. I wud let my friend know that I CUDNT swim. So this girls starts shouting for help and .. somehow the two girls manage to get out of the water. Its not really about the size and but its realy impossible to pull anyone out of water.. Size would just add to it .. coz of the increase in physical alligator strength when inside water.

Scary but quite funny coming to think of it..