Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Drowning does not look like drowning.
Thread: Drowning does not look like drowning.
View Single Post
 
Old 06-19-2018, 06:35 AM
aninjamom's Avatar
aninjamom aninjamom is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: The Villages, FL
Posts: 316
Thanks: 0
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by EPutnam1863 View Post
Ouch! This brings a painful memory. We were swimming in a motel pool when one of our sons started to sink. Right at the edge was a couple in their 70s, and they were right there. They could have very easily pulled him out, but I ran around and did the pulling. Then I asked this couple why they did not pull him out. They said, "He is not our child."
What a terrible attitude to have! I also was at a motel a long time ago where there was an incident; a child ran out of one of the rooms, and jumped right into the deep end, and went under. A retired lifeguard sitting there registered that he hadn't come back up, and fished him out. The kid couldn't swim! Everyone else sitting there assumed that he could swim because he jumped in like that.