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Employees kept getting in trouble in the pool at the YWCA.
 
I was watching the pool and a manager was practicing swimming.
 
We had foam "noodles" that could support probably up to 200 lbs.  I told the manager that he could sit or stand on a single noodle and it would support him, which was true.  He didn't believe me and tried to sit on the noodle but lost his grip on it.
 
He closed his eyes and flailed until he reached the wall, missing my outstretched hand.
 
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Two managers had clashing egos.  One started taking swim lessons so he could start swimming laps to impress people.  One day when he was trying to show off he got in trouble halfway to the deep end and had to be pulled out.  The other manager made fun of him for a week until he got in the water and got in trouble halfway to the deep end and had to be pulled out.
 
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On the second swim day during summer camp, I was hanging out in the deep end with Will and Gail.  A counselor named Jerry was sitting on the edge of the pool so I told him he had to get in and interact with the kids.  He jumped in and as he started to come up I saw he was panicked.
 
I grabbed his hand and he pulled  himself on the deck gasping for air.
 
"Why didn't you tell me you couldn't swim?  I would have told you to go in the shallow end," I said.  Will, Gail and I laughed and made fun of him for a week.
 
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A manager named Paul was watching the pool while this kid was swimming.  The kid got in trouble halfway to the deep end.  I just happened to walk to the window by the pool to see Paul, who was about 5'9" and a musclar 200 something pounds extend his hand to the kid.  He had to jump in fully clothed because the kid was too panicked to see the hand.
 
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George and Jonathan worked at the Y while the went to college.  George bet Jonathan that he couldn't jump from the side of the pool and clear the second lane divider.
 
The deck along side the pool was about three feet wide.  The the lane divider was about 10 feet from the edge,
 
Jonathan cleared the divider and soaked his clothes, wallet and paycheck.
 
Names have been changed to protect the innocent, ignorant and foolish.