Woman with a Swimline gummy bear float at the pool. Purple, translucent. A little more than five feet long, one chamber. The head is really large and has no inner baffle, and gets pretty bulgy. The woman was perhaps 280 pounds and it floated her no problem, but it did fold and wrinkle a bit in the middle, so she had it not tightly enough inflated to support her weight.
The woman I was with, "shorts girl", complimented her on it and they had a conversation about it. The woman said she tended to slide forward in the thing, shorts girl suggested more inflation, they tried that, it didn't work but it did reduce the fold in the middle.
She offered shorts girl a chance to try it out, and I could tell she was sizing her up, thinking she might be too heavy, and when shorts girl climbed the stairs enough that her hips were out of the water, the other woman got a funny look on her face.
It was super unstable and folded in the middle, the center of it under water and the head bulging up behind her. Shorts girl fell off it a couple times, added more air, and even once she got floating, she had trouble not sliding off the front of it, or rolling over. Made lots of skin on vinyl noises, which from her face the owner thought meant it was going to pop. Shorts Girl floated on it for a while before returning it to its owner, overinflated.
The head of that thing takes the air that is displaced from under you, and the seam at the top is where it's going to pop. I felt how hard it got with shorts girl on it, but resisted the urge to really test it.
Found a great price on this float so I ordered a couple.
The woman I was with, "shorts girl", complimented her on it and they had a conversation about it. The woman said she tended to slide forward in the thing, shorts girl suggested more inflation, they tried that, it didn't work but it did reduce the fold in the middle.
She offered shorts girl a chance to try it out, and I could tell she was sizing her up, thinking she might be too heavy, and when shorts girl climbed the stairs enough that her hips were out of the water, the other woman got a funny look on her face.
It was super unstable and folded in the middle, the center of it under water and the head bulging up behind her. Shorts girl fell off it a couple times, added more air, and even once she got floating, she had trouble not sliding off the front of it, or rolling over. Made lots of skin on vinyl noises, which from her face the owner thought meant it was going to pop. Shorts Girl floated on it for a while before returning it to its owner, overinflated.
The head of that thing takes the air that is displaced from under you, and the seam at the top is where it's going to pop. I felt how hard it got with shorts girl on it, but resisted the urge to really test it.
Found a great price on this float so I ordered a couple.
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