My uncles coming home from the War!
I was about 7 and one of them was still single. He took me swimming at a public pool because none of his friends were back yet and he didn’t want to go alone.
I told him I could swim (I’d read about it in a book and had never actually tried it in real life.) He plopped me into 4 feet of water, and I went down like a piece of lead. He picked me out, shook the water out of me, and taught me the basics in the kiddie pool for the rest of the afternoon.
He allowed me to lie on a towel next to him in the sun while he talked to big girls. I felt like a
movie star on a date with a real sailor!
To this day I Shower rather than bathe.