We are a family of swimmers but both my wife and I never did swim team growing up. I lifeguarded and have been a strong swimmer but I didn't really get into swimming for fitness until an old injury caught up to me and forced me to go with non-impact sports to for working out. I live far from where I grew up and folks back there don't really see me enough to know (but do now because my wife is FB friends with a lot of them). I have a second group of friends in another city where we use to live who probably forgot that I did occasionally (one of my first post on this board talks about it). Only my close friends now (where I live) who go to the same swim club as our family know that I swim laps & do Masters / know or have seen me there. My wife's family is a whole different story. While I know the immediate family, her extended family - we don't see very often but she is FB friends with them all. I just don't think at any point I would break them out for an in-law family event.52dno98 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 1:52 pmMy recollection is that you and your kids are all swimmers, right? So it's not that much out of character... lucky you. My wife would be so mortified for me to be in a public place in speedos that she would never post a photo of me in them.rmf wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:18 amUpdate from the last time I posted on this string.... Since my last post, my wife posted photos of the family when we were at the beach. There was one photo of me clearly in briefs. She has about 200+ FB friends (including family) & tagged me in the photo. Most either ignored or just 'liked' the photo. Only one friend said something negative in the comments and my wife defended me quickly... and in a 'Midwest nice' way, she shamed him. I wasn't surprised he was the one person to say something negative. One buddy joked but he already knew I wore them and has seem me in them. So the jist of it now is that anyone knows me from past to present can figure it out if they saw the photo....
Going back to the one person who said something because if there would be anyone, I would have bet it would be him. I have known him for 30+ yrs and we go way back as young adults. He's that one guy friend that you think over the years, 'he is such a dick, why am I still friends with him?'..... Then you realize you don't have to be and that's where I am at now. I rarely talk to him except when a big group of guys get together for a wedding or reunion. As I mentioned, my wife made a comment which made him backpaddle a bit on his original comment and her and I just laughed about it afterwards.
