You should ALWAYS top it with an egg.

Lessons for adult nervous swimmers!

My pool provides really crappy kickboards in a big bin by the lifeguard chairs. I don’t like them so I bring my own, a nice TYR kickboard that I use a lot as part of my knee rehab. Anyway, I was doing some breaststroke laps when this jag walks over to my kickboard (laying at the end of my lane next to my water…

Seriously! Theoretically, I’d love to swim for exercise. In practice, I get in water and start hyperventilating when my feet aren’t firmly planted on the pool floor. Any tips for that? Just repeated exposure?

Step 1 for me is getting over my horrible aquaphobia.

I started swimming again when I set a goal to complete a triathlon, I hadn’t swam any actual distance since the 4th grade. It was challenging, but I actually found it to be my favorite type of work out. 60 minutes of swimming a couple days a week and you’re in good shape!

Or he is just an huge, narcissistic asshole who thinks he is entitled to whatever pleasure is in front of him. I’m pretty sure if his wife was a plain looking woman who had a normal job and stayed in the background, he would still be looking for strange in all the wrong places.

Hey I have an idea!

This makes no sense. I also encourage you to look up “ad hominem argument” and “internalized misogyny.” Personal responsibility is also a good start.

His response to the whole thing is so classy. I’d be pissed off if it kept happening to me. I’m a nervous flyer and the terror attacks have me considering whether to leave the house on a daily basis so I understand and dearly appreciate vigilant security but when one of the world’s biggest stars is constantly…

Sigh.

i just want to say, as an arab, i love that there is an arab leading man that is about to be the internet’s boyfriend, and his arab-ness is not a thing that is discussed or pointed out or whatever. he happens to be arab. he is mostly hot. i am so happy.

Then you are dumb as fuck. Thanks for commenting.

Maybe if you spell it with a k? She’s super klassy.

The point

Did you even read this? Nobody is asking you to apologize. This isn't about you. The fact that you managed to be offended by this piece is a testament to just how much you don't get it.

I would hit it like a Jeopardy buzzer. Over and over again. I'll take Walk of Shame for 1,000, Alex.

I am laughing at this SO HARD. He is such a douche. He's SUCH a douche. He's probably terrible in bed. I don't even care. I would still hit it like the wrath of God. I'd just make sure he wasn't in a position to speak until well after we were done.