Re: Overinflated inflatables in public
Well, every week for our swimming class at school, we had to bring our own swim rings.
It was easier to bring them flat, and blow them up at the start of the lesson. For some reason, we always blew the swim rings up till they were like solid hard and wouldn't flex when we pressed down on them in the water. The teacher did say to keep blowing air into the rings till you can't get any more air in.
I recall the rings being wrinkle free and thick and plump. I remember occasionally there would be a pop during inflation, and sometimes a ring would spring a leak halfway through the lesson. With no replacement available, we'd just have to keep adding more air every few minutes with our mouths.
I never realised that we were overinflating the swim rings as we thought that's how they should be.
Sometimes if we had beach balls to play with, we'd blow them up till the wrinkles disappeared, then keep blowing about a dozen breaths in, to get rid of the hexagonal shape, firm up the ball to make it bouncier, and to enlarge its size.
Well, every week for our swimming class at school, we had to bring our own swim rings.
It was easier to bring them flat, and blow them up at the start of the lesson. For some reason, we always blew the swim rings up till they were like solid hard and wouldn't flex when we pressed down on them in the water. The teacher did say to keep blowing air into the rings till you can't get any more air in.
I recall the rings being wrinkle free and thick and plump. I remember occasionally there would be a pop during inflation, and sometimes a ring would spring a leak halfway through the lesson. With no replacement available, we'd just have to keep adding more air every few minutes with our mouths.
I never realised that we were overinflating the swim rings as we thought that's how they should be.
Sometimes if we had beach balls to play with, we'd blow them up till the wrinkles disappeared, then keep blowing about a dozen breaths in, to get rid of the hexagonal shape, firm up the ball to make it bouncier, and to enlarge its size.
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