Coaching Bob

I have just started back coaching again after a month of nothingness.
August is kind of a boring month because July is insane with swim activity and then August just stops and is the slowest most boring month for me (except for my anniversary and Simon's bday), but as far as jobs go I do nothing.
In fact, I received a paycheck from the Y for $8.31. That is for half an hour, which is how much I worked in August I think. I had it on the fridge because I thought it was so hilarious but Mike took it and deposited it.


September has hit now and boom! I am coaching and teaching all over the place again. I coach kids at Ft. Sanders West, which is a lot of fun. It is a really nice facility and I have a bunch of cute kids who swim on summer league teams and are swimming with me throughout the year to stay in shape. I pretty much get to do whatever I want with this group and they pay me a lot for doing what I love.



I am also coaching swim clinic at West-Side Y and teaching lessons there.

Bob

I am teaching lessons right now to a sweet 75 year old man named Bob who has never learned to swim in his life. He is great. He booked an hour lesson with me twice a week. At first I thought this was a lot of time, but I realized on our first day that about 30 minutes of the hour is spent just chatting with Bob. Bob was in the NAVY!!! Can you believe that? In the Navy and never learned to swim. He told me that every time they would have swim tests he would get a doctors note so he wouldn't have to do it. He just kept slipping through the cracks and never actually learned. Oh and listen to this, of all of his many doctors excuses he used to get out of swim tests, one doctor wrote him a not that said he couldn't swim because he had too much earwax. AND IT WORKED!!! How crazy is that? In the United Stated Navy that excuse worked.

So anyway, now I am teaching Bob to swim and I love him. He rides a scooter to the Y from Farragut! He goes hiking all the time and he water skis. That's right, the man cannot swim, but he can water ski. What a character.
Anyway, I was pretty nervous when I decided I would teach a 75 year old to swim but it turns out he is so wonderful and interesting and is brightening my Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I wish I had a picture of him to put on here because he is a stud.