Fat Swim Week: So, Where Are We Swimming?
What snacks are we bringing? And where do you land on the Great Hot Tub Debate?
Friday Thread: Where Do You Like To Swim Best? (Or Do You Even Like It!!!)
In a group chat recently, one of my good friends revealed that she does not like hot tubs. We still love her, but this was a bold and controversial position to take in our particular friend constellation because a lot of us are deeply pro-hot tub and pro-being in water in general. But when she explained that she doesn’t like the sensation of coming out wet afterwards (especially if it’s cold out) or all the hassle of changing clothes and getting dry afterwards… I started to get it.
I mean, not entirely—recall that Corinne and I basically just launched her entire newsletter from a hot spring. We would both comfortably identify as “pool pushers,” meaning if you’re near a pool with us, we’re going to want to get in it and think you should too. But I do always dread that moment of becoming corporeal again after blissfully floating. And while I’d get in a hot tub every day of my life if I could, you could not pay me any amount of money to cold plunge.
So to wrap up Swim Week, we need to know where the larger Burnt Toast Community falls on these vital questions:
And of course, I’d love you to use the comments to elaborate on WHY you feel the way you feel about swimming.
My own back story is that I had a childhood full of ear infections and didn’t even learn to swim until I was 32 and pregnant with my first child.
