You don’t have to have been going swimming long before you become a hardened cynic as regards the various recurring annoyances you typically encounter at your local pool. These “pool nuisances” will surely be a feature of several of these Tales from the Pool strips in the future. I’ve encountered this particular guy twice now. If it happens a third time, I’m sorely tempted to just block his exit and hold him underwater.
Ha ha… smug arseholes. I actually used to be able to swim a 25 meter pool underwater when I was in middle school, but those days are loooooooong gone now. The truth is, if you practice on a swim team, they drill safety into you pretty good, so I imagine that most people who have drilled enough to actually be able to swim the whole length underwater would never do it outside of swim-team practice. That would be kind of like a karate student picking fights or a fireman setting fires just to put them out…