Scuba Shifts North and Debt.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Time and lack of people willing to go with me mainly - the ex and I always said we would but when I tried to organise it he suddenly had all kinds of previously booked appointments.

Washing his hair was he?

Unfortunately, I subscribe to the Sir Thomas Beecham method of new experiences: "Try anything once. Except incest and folk dancing."

:rotfl:

scubaangel wrote: »

I like swimming - not so much heights, but I always enjoyed the swimming parts - possibly because I was good at it, and it amused me watching the sons of Dad's friends struggling to stay afloat,

Yeah, but that's unfair. Girls float.

scubaangel wrote: »

or even more amusing failing to swim against the current

Because of ineptitude or because of weakness?

scubaangel wrote: »

until they were grounded in the shallows and all the cuts, grazes and bruises that it caused them (they were evil little creatures, hated having me around almost as much as I hated being around them since I was the only girl, and as one kindly reminded me not so long ago 'a fat brainiac' as a kid).

There's far worse things to be. "Stupid: It's not a lifestyle choice."

Besides:

scubaangel

More specifically fat girls float And as a child I was undeniably fat most of the time. Mainly ineptitude, they all thought they could swim didn't seem to realise that doggy paddle wouldn't be enough to swim against the current at the bottom of even a relatively small waterfall.

No for most of them stupid wasn't a choice it was genetic and mostly they've not gained in intelligence or common sense since then.

On the whole my parents choosing to holiday with their friends and as a result their sons made me much prefer being in school since summer holidays meant two weeks stuck on a campsite with between 7 and 11 boys around my age who hated having me there as much as I hated being there since they thought I should have been spending time with their sisters - all of whom are at least 2 years younger than my sister and at 10 noone wants to spend their holidays with 5 and 6 year olds!

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

More specifically fat girls float

No, actually girls in general float. Used to irritate me as my sister could just lie back in water and float round about to the level of her ears. I had to keep swimming or get acquainted with the bottom...

scubaangel wrote: »

And as a child I was undeniably fat most of the time. Mainly ineptitude, they all thought they could swim didn't seem to realise that doggy paddle wouldn't be enough to swim against the current at the bottom of even a relatively small waterfall.

We're not talking about the brightest bulbs are we..?

scubaangel wrote: »

No for most of them stupid wasn't a choice it was genetic and mostly they've not gained in intelligence or common sense since then.

Tends not to happen, no. I've got far more knowledge than I ever had as a child (you'll be relieved to hear), but the quickness of thought and the concentration is far poorer.

Though having said that, when I play games now, I'm blatting (what sounds like) 13 year olds all over the map. Modern kids must be *really* stupid... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

scubaangel wrote: »

On the whole my parents choosing to holiday with their friends and as a result their sons made me much prefer being in school since summer holidays meant two weeks stuck on a campsite with between 7 and 11 boys around my age who hated having me there as much as I hated being there since they thought I should have been spending time with their sisters - all of whom are at least 2 years younger than my sister and at 10 noone wants to spend their holidays with 5 and 6 year olds!

No, and I would imagine you would have been roped into semi child-minding duties - which you would have *really* loved...

scubaangel

Thankfully the parents all knew I disliked younger children intensely even then...plus some of the boys were a couple of years older and considered old enough to babysit on the rare nights that the parents went to the campsite bar instead of drinking buckets of wine around our camp areas (these trips were either Eurocamp big tent type things or static caravans).

Although I guess some of the parents of the boys show just where their brains come from - one of them once told his Mum he'd been locked in the nightclub toilets as he's drunk that much he passed out and didn't get found until morning to cover up for the fact he'd pulled and gone home with an older woman. Said mother still believes his story to be true...

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Thankfully the parents all knew I disliked younger children intensely even then...

"I hate children!"
"You're 10..."

:rotfl:

scubaangel wrote: »

Although I guess some of the parents of the boys show just where their brains come from - one of them once told his Mum he'd been locked in the nightclub toilets as he's drunk that much he passed out and didn't get found until morning to cover up for the fact he'd pulled and gone home with an older woman. Said mother still believes his story to be true...

But it's her likkle boy! Of course he'd tell her the truth! He's special!

Very speshul...

:rotfl:

You don't seem to have enjoyed much of these holidays apart from the occasional abseiling and swimming - or is that being unfair?

scubaangel

Pretty much....

Very much.

And none of it unless I was away from my family and friends of the family. I suspect an entire childhood of not matching up to said friends of the families sons, and then my slim, athletic, outgoing sister meant I was often not happy which just pushed even further in to my shell causing the only too predictable cycle. It's probably the reason I found things like swimming, scuba and horse riding were so important to me, they were things I could do and was/am good at but the other kids in the group didn't do either because they couldn't (I vividly recall three of the lads doing trial scuba dives and just not "getting" it to the point of nearly drowning) or wouldn't - horse riding was a girls thing.

scubaangel

And back from the work stuff, with two interviews for other jobs pencilled in and an area manager from a new contract very interested in finding out if I was willing to move away from home again....

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

And back from the work stuff, with two interviews for other jobs pencilled in and an area manager from a new contract very interested in finding out if I was willing to move away from home again....

If the money is right I guess.

And where you are expected to move isn't some God-forsaken place...

scubaangel

I have to admit to not paying very much attention when we were doing the introductions first thing so I know the contract he works on but not the region he works in. So I'll stick to researching for the two interviews I have - the first I don't think will be something I want to pursue but they contacted me direct after seeing my CV on reed so I figure it's worth having a look. The second is the one down south so I need to make sure I can get a day off to go down for it.

scubaangel

Interview in the south confirmed for my day off so at least I don't need to worry about my area manager giving me a day's holiday (and if I get it then it means thats one less notice day I have to work since I'll obviously want to finish asap to prepare to move - and nothing to do with my disliking the actual job of course).