Posted on 04/10/2025 4:02:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I had a b***hy aunt, who used to tell all us little kids scare stories about how: “You curl into a little ball, and your head goes inside, and you sink to the bottom and NEVER come back up again!”
and that is prolly why the old saying- kids end up pukin in the pool if they go swimming too soon after a meal- could i spose get cramps too from puking- which could be dangerous if in deep water
My folks used to swim to and from school- even during the winter- uphill both ways- and they never got cramps
Right?
In m case, just enough time to help my mom do the lunchtime dishes before heading to the swimming pool.
LOL- gotta watch the parents- they are sneaky smart suns o guns-
But can I run during a thunderstorm?
Years ago, talking elderly Mom, I said ‘Do you hear that thunder over here??’
She said Dont talk on the phone during a storm!!
But Mom, It’s a cordless phone.
Mom: Still, don’t!
Didn’t a lot of celebrities die at 29? If only they’d waited one more minute.
a cousin died cramping in a pond too soon after eating
he was the biggest kid so though the others tried, they could not save him
Your body pulls blood to your digestive organs when eating. Exercising overrides that and the messages from the nervous system to your digestive organs, sending blood to your workout organs instead, leading to slow and improper digestion.
My mother still insists that male baldness comes from the mother’s side of the family rather than the father’s side. Every male on my mother’s side of the family has a full head of hair. Every male on my father’s side of the family is bald. I am bald. Thanks, Mom.
Growing up in the50s, we had to wait a whole hour after eating before we could go swimming. it was torture to wait.
My wife and I never imposed this torture on our children. This was exposed as a myth by the 70s.
Yikes, that sounds like it is right out of “Babes In Toyland”.
We grew up with that rule like it was Scripture. 😆
Going blind... hairy palms...
hmm.......
It is no different than eating a meal and going to bed. You have a higher likelihood of food or bile spilling up into the esophagus or mouth. It was not uncommon for me to throw up a little bit if I swam right after eating. Kids eating hot dogs, chips and noodle or potatoe salad, not conducive to good digestion.
Eat dinner about 5 pm, hours before bedtime, don’t go swimming after eating a junk food fest.
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