Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Today's report from the pool



          Wednesdays are not my usual day for water aerobics, but today I had an opening in my retired-lady schedule.
Many of the usual Monday suspects were there: Mary, Jean, Ruth, the lady with the swim goggles, the ones who only float in the deep end and chat, the lone gentleman with the pencil mustache who reminds me of a romantic lead from the 1930s. He keeps his distance, a fact which shows either good manners or good sense.  


          Our Wednesday instructor is a painfully thin lady with long frizzy hair and a shrill voice. Until my summer calendar filled up with golf, she was the original reason why I’ve avoided Wednesdays. Her incessant shrieking and frenetic movements are coupled with a program of questionable benefit, switching us from jumping jacks to weights to leg lifts and back to weights. 


          Still, there I was. Fortunately, we all pretty much ignored our leader and instead launched into a productive discussion of books, TV, and movies. One person mentioned the Harry Bosch mystery series, which prompted another person to splash over and fill us in on the Bosch TV series on Amazon Prime. From there we went to the new Animal Kingdom with Ellen Barkin.  One of us had made it as far as the first two episodes, but everyone else had surrendered after only one viewing, having found not only the sexual innuendo between the mother and her sons super creepy, but also not one redeemable character. We went from there to the Outlander series, followed by a quick tutorial on using closed captioning to decipher the Scottish accents.  

          Then finally we came to Game of Thrones, an all-around acknowledged favorite. “Although, I’m glad we’re done with all those torture scenes.”

There in that pool full of grey-haired grandmothers and sweet church ladies, Ruth summed it up: “Exactly! It's fine, though, if they blow somebody up or burn them with dragon fire.” 


We all agreed heartily and paddled off to do leg lifts. 

10 comments:

  1. Hahaha! I haven't gotten involved with GoT but everybody who has seems to have loved the season finale. :-)

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  2. I am pitifully lacking in knowledge about TV series and movies. I recently signed up for Amazon prime but not because of the movies and TV series. I've tried a few times to find something to watch but haven't had much luck. I'm not sure why but it's been many years since I watched a TV series. I've been to a movie maybe 3 times in the 12 years we've been in Oregon. The TV is never on in the living room where I sit. Bob watches TV in his room. I read, listen to books and use a laptop computer. Not sure I'll ever catch up on movies and TV shows.

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  3. Middle school kids never looked so good. At least most of the time they did what you told them. Your class? I'm not so sure???

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  4. Add me to the ignorant. I haven't seen ANY of the programs you mentioned. Perhaps I would get some exercise hiding my face in shame...

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  5. I haven't seen any of those shows except a few episodes of Outlander and I can't remember where I'm up to, so will have to start over when I watch it again.
    Love the dragon.

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  6. We've been watching "Game of Thrones," and I like it OK, but I must admit I'm not a fan of all the spewing blood. It's an awfully bloody show.

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  7. I have not watched TV for five years. My granddaughters try to explain Amazon and Netflix, and I don't get it yet. When we move, they think regular TV is a waste, but I want to watch HGTV, currently.

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  8. I enjoy your pool reports and visualize each one of those ladies. :)

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  9. I would have felt left out for I can't get any of those shows so I'd have had to actually exercise listening to the shrill instructor. I do wish however that we had water aerobics offered here.

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  10. I've been reading the Game of Thrones and Outlander books since they first came out and decided not to watch the series, keeping my vision instead of someone elses. Water aerobics sound good, minus the shrill instructor.

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