Today, I was at a swim meet. I was on a relay team and I was the anchor. My team was in 1st. I was ready to dive in when I saw my tampon string was hanging out of my suit. I freaked, slid off the block, and fell on top of the guy before me and gave him a concussion. We got DQed for a false start FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I swam in a race against all of the girls in the midwest in the hardest, longest, most grueling race you can swim. I won. Happy but so tired I could barely move, I looked up to see my time. I had been disqualified. For flinching. Before the race started. FML
Today, a new session started for my swimming squad. I walked down to the pool, tripped over a stray equipment bag, and belly-flopped into the pool in front of everyone, fully clothed. I'm the coach. FML
Today, we were hanging around the pool with a couple of friends and a crush of mine. Thinking I would be able to impress her with a well-performed dive off the diving board, I went up and attempted my best dive. I slipped as I jumped, hitting my head on the board. I had to be saved by the lifeguard. FML
Today, at my volleyball tournament I was extremely pumped to start playing so I went to take my sweats off and everybody began to stare at me then I looked down to come to realize I had no spandex on, just a thong. FML
Today, I went swimming. While I was walking along side of the pool, everyone was staring at me. I began to think that my diet was really working. It was only an hour later, in the changing rooms, that I noticed the string from my Tampax that was sticking out of my swimming costume. FML
Today, I went to the pool. When I hit the water the top of my swimsuit came off so I tried to put it on underwater. The lifeguard thought I was drowning and pulled me out in front of everyone. Topless. FML
Today, I tried to impress our swim team coach by doing a complicated backflip from the diving board. I landed face-first in the pool and had to be rescued by the lifeguard, so I guess I won't be going to the Olympics any time soon. FML
Today, my tampon string was hanging from my bathing suit. My boyfriend thought it was a thread hanging from my bikini bottom. He publicly pulled out my tampon. FML
Today, I had a gymnastics meet. I thought I was done with my period, but when I was up on the beam warming up my routine, one of my coaches called me down and told me that I apparently wasn't. My coach goes around asking my teammates moms if they had any pads. My dad caught this all on tape. FML
Today, I was at a swim meet, swimming as hard as I'd ever swum before. During the last lap I saw no one in the lanes next to me. Thinking I was first, I became extremely excited. When I came to the wall, I realized the reason no one else was around: They already finished the race. I was last. FML
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washburn_fml 0
#1 I'm glad your life goal is now complete. OP: You deserve it. Sorry, but if you're going to put yourself in any kind of high pressure situation with others counting on you like that, you gotta get over little things like tampon strings.
audereyy 0
LOL. #1 your a jerk. anyway, that sucks, but if your a girl, how did you fall on top of a guy? girls and guys dont swim relays together. anyway its not like you could do anything about it right before you dove off, so it woulda just been easier to swim the whole thing and tuck it back in when you finished and were still in the water. its not that big of a deal i mean everyone knows girls have to wear tampons when they swim.
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look_its_me 0
As a swimmer i will say i have never seen a coed relay at a real meet...but maybe your school is different...
swims_club_daily 0
as a club swimmer of 7 years, and 4 year high school varsity swimmer, i have not seen a co-ed relay that actually counted. unless it was some kind of mess around duing practice thing...i dunno but i know my coach would kill me if i freaked out because of my tampon string, and you made it alot worse freaking out, i bet no one would have noticed. but once you did that i bet you had ALOT of explaining to do.
darthphonebook 0
since when did guys swim on the same relays as girls?
illgutcha 0
cut the string next time! LOL
swimdudeno1 0
I'm going to call BS on this. What swim meet would have a girl on the same relay as a guy? There are no coed relays in meets........It doesn't matter how fast anyone is, it just isn't mixed up.
ridiculosity 0
First FML I've ever not believed. What the hell kind of competitive swimmer stops to move a tampon string? And you aren't anchoring a guy. You're not.
swiminsam407 0
Um this is def. BS I have been a competitive swimmer for 9 years and I have never heard of guys and girls on the same relay team. I dunno maybe you're club or school is different from mine...
lebreex 0
Co-ed swim relays? wtf? But anyhoo, I love the amount of hardcore swimmers on this thread. Swimming ftw.
skyswim37 0
alrighttt i have been swimming for 11 years and yes there is co ed relays at some meets, ive been in a couple. but i think you shouldnt have freaked out completely, you could have just ignored it and fixed it after the race.
Carl_Duker 0
yes i used to swim for about 6 years too and there is girl and boy relay 2 each i think, i even went to some big tournaments and they still had them but most of these were in highschool and sry about the tampoon thing