Wednesday I go to the pool like I always do after work and hop in the pool. I like going right after work because it's pretty empty and I can get a swim lane to myself. Today is no different, there are 2 other people in the pool besides myself and the lifeguard (a cute brunette girl, probably too young for me but at least she's out of highschool), so I hop in.
My current workout is 20 laps or 1km. Despite the fact I'm in much better shape today than I was a year ago, I'm not in what I would consider good shape. I still can't swim the entire 20 laps without taking breaks to recover so I normally do 1 lap entirely underwater (well, 2 lengths, I pop up at the end of the pool to breath). Then I do 4 more laps normal swimming, then I take my first break (about a minute). I then proceed to do 10 more laps, then take my second break, next I do one more lap all out, just to see how fast I can do it (42 seconds is my fastest right now), followed by my 3rd and final break, and finish up with my last 4 laps.
So I finish my first 5 laps and on the last lap I see something kind of disturbing. Floating in the water near the end of the pool is what looks like a piece of toilet paper. It's completely underwater so it does it's little ethereal dance in the eddies of the water, but it looks clean and it's a bit to far away for me to worry about it, so I ignore it.
The two people who were in the pool have now been replaced by two ladies in the lane next to me. I try not to be a gawker, but I can never seem to help spare a glance to see if they are cute. I'm a guy, what do you expect?
Five more laps in and a feel something on my leg, I get to the end of the pool and reach down and sure enoguh it's a piece of material. It's possible it's what I thought was toilet paper before, but it feels like a bit of swimsuit material. Probably about 5 inches long with and 1 inch wide. I throw it up on the side of the pool, look up to see the life guard smiling down on me. I must be doing something right. I go back to swimming.
3 more laps in a feel something on my leg again! What the heck?!? I decide to finish up my set before stopping this time. I hear the ladies next to me laughing about something although I'm not exactly sure what it is. When I stop again I reach down, and sure enough, more swimsuit material. How in the heck is all this swimsuit material ending up in my lane... I grab it and give it a tug.
Rip.
Oh.
It's my swimsuit material.
I feel around real quick while I think no ones watching. Bare skin. Hmm, that can't be good. I look down to find the right have of my swimsuit has disintigrated, from Pelvis to butt crack, only a big flap of torn swimsuit dangling down my front, and the little net underpants that are sewn into the fabric to keep things from hanging out to protect my modesty. It should be noted that net underpants, don't really hide anything.
I decided to skip my last 5 laps and just tucked my swim trunk leg into the back of my pants and snuck out when the women next to me were swimming away.