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
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Today, my mom signed me up for a swimming class to show my sister there's nothing to be afraid of. Considering I'm 17, I assumed I'd be in an advanced class. Instead, I get to spend summer blowing bubbles in the shallow end with four-year-olds as my little sister cheers me on from the steps. FML
Today, I was teaching swim lessons. I got felt up by a 6 year-old boy. Three times. FML
Today, my dad taught me how to swim. I had to keep doing a lot of strange movements to keep my body floating. While doing that, two 8-year-old girls came and asked me if i needed help getting out of the water. I'm a 20 year old guy. FML
Today, I got chewed out by a parent for putting her kid underwater. I teach swim lessons. FML
Today, I learned a valuable lesson: Make sure you learn to swim at a very young age, or else you might end up a in a swimming class with a bunch 3 and 4 year-olds, taught by your crush. FML
Today, I told my mom I was going swimming with friends. She told me, in front of them, not to go into the deep end unless there was an adult around because I'm not old enough to swim on my own. I'm 19. FML
Today, I got a concussion while teaching a kid how to be a safe and cautious swimmer. FML
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
Today, a kid I taught to swim became my new boss, at the pool that I have worked at for nine years. FML
Today, I decided to go swimming. I knew my technique would be off because I haven't swam since high school. It was when I made it only halfway across the pool that the lifeguard decided to jump in and save me. I wasn't drowning or struggling. FML
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VegasMade702 0
You're in high school and you write like a 4th grader. I think your mom should spend that swimming money on a tutor instead.
papertigers_fml 0
you could have said "swimming" a few more times you know
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Comments (136)
jasmine1259 2
you guys are hypocrites. i bet you'd be embarrass too to be in high school and take a swimming class with little kids.
audreyelise 0
How come people have said your FML makes no sense? Are they illiterate? Lol. I feel for you, I as well do not know how to swim and I'm 18. You shouldn't be embarrassed, many people have a fear of water and don't know how to swim. Age plays no factor in it.
nonynony 0
It's embarrassing to have to learn things as an adult, but it shouldn't be. Just try to brush it off. I do agree with those wondering why your mother didn't worry about this when you were a kid, though. Swimming is a good survival skill, and a recreational one as well! You might never LOVE it, but hopefully you won't fear it any more.
alexgisforme3 0
i thought i was the only one who was afraid of water...im so sorry =(. i used to be able to swim quite well...dont know if i would now though. just laugh about being with the little kids and watch them be worse than you looool.
lalalala1234 0
#43 and everybody else who says everybody should learn swimming as a child, it's not as simple as you think. I wish I could have learned when I was young. I'm in highschool now and I still don't know how to swim, and I've developed a fear of water from a near-drowning incident several years ago. But the reason I didn't learn how to swim as a child was because both my parents were working full-time (so they couldn't teach me themselves) and they didn't have the money to send me to classes. And now if I wanted to learn, I'd be in the same situation as the OP. Please don't be jackasses and tell people that they are OBLIGATED to know how to swim when they're young. Some of us don't have the opportunity.
insomniacdude 0
I used to teach swimming lessons at the YMCA and there was a class specifically designed to teach swimming to adult beginners. YDI for not looking for/at other options more arduously.
Xero3g 5
#22 I would consider it somewhat ironic seeing as the song explicitly mentions drowning. So a little bit of both it seems. And #23, good song innit?
yayitsmeh 0
FYL. You don't know how to use correct grammar. This is what your mom's thinking: My son is in high school and he doesn't know how to type using correct grammar. FML
BatgirlZKE 5
I never learned how to swim because I panic when my head goes under water. I was forced to take swimming lessons but didn't get very far because I refused to go under water. I can go in water up to 5 ft but once it starts hitting my chin, I get nervous. There's no reason to be embarrassed that you can't swim. For some reason, people make fun of me for it but I guess they are just assholes.
thegoodlifeNOT 0
bahahah better late than never!