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Bad Swim

Just had to share this with you today.  After practice this morning I went to the gym and after a short workout headed to the pool planning to get a long 2500 yard stretch out swim after this past weekend.  The swimstarted out great but suddenly half way in it started to go down hill. This being a day off from school these two ladies decided that they were going to bring their 3 kids from the day care room to the pool to play.   😂Excuse me ladies this is for lap swimming only.  Now you all know I have nothing against kids but this was after a weekend of only seeing kids and having Sara and Claire following me around the deck. I needed a break .  But no these three were determined to undermine my swim one way or another.  First their noodle floated into my lane and then of course, not one but all three of them had to come over to get it. Next it was let's throw a ball back and forth across the pool (4 lanes so it's possible), but not for these kids.  I don't think they could do it even if I gave them a dollar.   

I finally came to the conclusion that this was going to be a problem. I could let this problem get to me and stress me out, or I could work the problem.  After getting permission from the moms I told the three to go get the kickboards in the corner and we were going to play a game.  

Excited they retrieved the boards and I spent 10 minutes showing them different things they could do with them. At the end I told them that now we are going to race and that the winner gets to sit out while the others had to race.  After the first race one down, two left.  After two races two gone one left.  Now the last one had to race me and of course I lost so the three of them were out of the pool. 
At first they thought they were getting back in, but I explained to them that they always wanted to wait for 10 minutes before they were ready to race again.  The mothers gave them a snack I got another 700 yards in during intermission.   PROBLEM SOLVED

How do you look at an unexpected problem during your day?

Going through IMX Thoughts now more later.  Mike

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