AFH2O
Visalia, United States
Today, I got chewed out by a parent for putting her kid underwater. I teach swim lessons. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
cplaner
United States
Little perv
Today, I was teaching swim lessons. I got felt up by a 6 year-old boy. Three times. FML
Cantswim
United States
Today, I had to go take swimming lessons because my mom has a fear I'll drown and I'm totally afraid of swimming anyway and never get anywhere near water. My instructor? A high school classmate of mine. My fellow swimming classmates? 5 and 6 year old kids. FML
luh8r
Canada
Tyranny
Today, while teaching swimming to a bunch of five year-olds, one particularly bratty girl decided she didn't want to swim and led the entire class to strike, leaving the pool empty, and me without a job. Apparently I was teaching the next world tyrant to swim. FML
please don't get the succ
San Francisco, United States
Today, at my job as a sailing instructor, I had to stop kids from getting their asses sucked by a pool filter. FML
rowanjusmc
United States
Today, I got a concussion while teaching a kid how to be a safe and cautious swimmer. FML
poolboy
This FML is from back in 2009 but it's good stuff
United States
Teaching moment
Today, I was working as a swim instructor for kids. Teaching them not to be afraid of the water, I put my face in the water and blew bubbles. I asked them to try it. All of them did, except for one. I went right to him and blew bubbles again. He then said to me, "But I just peed in that water." FML
butisavedyourkid
United States
Today, I rescued a little boy who looked like he was drowning in a public pool. His mother then smacked me in the face for "touching him". FML
chlorinesmells
United States
Today, a kid I taught to swim became my new boss, at the pool that I have worked at for nine years. FML
thanks dad
In my day…
Today, we were slowly introducing my daughter to the pool to help her get over her terrible fear of water. My father-in-law scoffed, called us pussies, and tossed my daughter straight into the water. When I threw him out, he insisted he was just trying to teach her to swim "the right way." FML
Anonymous
Springfield, United States
Today, while taking part in a lifeguarding exercise, I was supposed to "drown" to get another guard to save me. After all was done, my boss called me into his office and screamed at me for "drowning the wrong way," and threatening our reputation. FML
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Wizardo 34
Sounds like her brain is water logged. Don't hold your breath and dive into the deep end with this one, dangerous and annoying waters.
maggieisbatman 10
Apparently nobody bothered to "tech" you how to spell.
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Comments (86)
pete9913 23
Some parents are impossible to satisfy. Their kids are never wrong and should never suffer any discomfort. They probably want you to teach them to swim without getting wet.
JKPwnage 27
Who let HER reproduce? I smell a blonde...
SnotRocket25 8
How old? I teach lessons too and I never put a kid underwater. That just scares them even more.
blackonblight 33
A quick "hold your breath" with the instructor supporting them scares them more? More than what? Sitting on the stairs?
SnotRocket25 8
If you just shove them underwater they'll get scared of being in. You have to take your time with it and only do it to kids who can handle it.
Pyrotechtarian 4
OP your life does suck but what you need to realize is that anytime you deal with children, you will always get shit from their parents wether you didn't do something enough or did it too much or did it wrong even if you did it right.
mowerboy 5
Well they're incompetent
EmpireCityRay 13
It's a swim course in a swimming pool, did she think her child would learn to swim without learning to control their breathing?!
TheBagelSniper 11
My mom is has been a teaching children how to swim for 15 years. As her kid I would often encourage the children she was teaching as another child can be helpful. I can't tell you how many times the rich mom supervising screamed because her child went underwater.