Originally Posted by BV

Even though I knew how to swim I almost drown once. I was about 3 or 4 years old and was swimming in a pool with my older cousins who were a few years older.

All of a sudden my cousin yells out to the adults "Hey look at Chad he's floating" like i was doing a trick or something. lol (I probably was doing a trick like seeing how long I could hold my breath under water)

I was already turning blue. My grandpa and uncle turned around and grabbed me up by my feet and shook me to drain the water out and I was coughing and crying and they kept shaking the louder I cried. Scared the hell out of everybody.

Thankfully 10 minutes later he threw me back in so I would not have a fear of the water.


As a baby I was taught to swim to the edge of the pool and hang on in case i fell in by accident. My grandpa had rigged a small rope on eye hooks around the inside of the pool for me to hang on too.

Ah the good old days. :-)