Question: What do you call good clean water?
Answer: Well water.
I have never been drawn to water. I don’t like drinking it, bathing in it and worst of all swimming in it.
Tea is my favorite drink and I make a pot of it each morning. Okay, it is made with water, but it tastes like tea, not plain water.
Water has not touched my face since my freshman year in high school when Arleen Hartnagle introduced me to Bonne Bell facial cleanser. Several years later, my husband and I bought a house with a shower. I haven’t had a bath since.
Both my parents could swim. They tried to teach me, but I hated getting my face wet and consequently never learned. When I was a freshman at Russell Sage College, I had to take a semester of swimming. There were classmates jumping off the high diving board and doing summersaults and all kinds of things. I was in the shallow end of the Olympic size pool cringing. My instructor told me that if I got my face wet, she would give me an “A”. Surprisingly, I got that “A” while the high divers only got a “B”. Meanwhile, there has been a pool in my back yard since 1989. I have never been in it even to soak my feet.
Growing up in the country, we had well water. I will eat water melon and I do bless myself with holy water when entering church, but is as far as I will go.
The irony of all this is my father’s nickname for me was “Water”. Not because I hated water but because he loved puns and I was his daughter, Water. I am currently writing a memoir about growing up with my dad and I have titled it “Water Stories”.
With my luck, I will probably die by drowning.
Cute story June. Learned something new about you. Nice that you are continuing writing. Miss having a group to meet with but hopefully in the fall we can rethink this. I too no longer wanted to go to Howe. Chris will probably have something going in Brunswick, come fall. I do attend Armchair Poets ((though I am not a poet) That has helped keeping me writing a bit. Nice group of folks there.They resume meetings in Sept.
Kathy