THE GIRL IN SWIMMING SUIT,some MEN WHO WOULD NOT LET HER DO SWIMMING---A STORY by bhupinder
THE GIRL IN SWIMMING SUIT,some MEN WHO WOULD NOT LET HER DO SWIMMING---A STORY by bhupinder
The young smart girl in her 25th year had good height and slim figure.She was keen to adopt the career of an air hostess,but being from middle class ,she had to arrange for her personality devolpment and other English speaking courses. In the meanwhile,some one suggested swimming ,so she borrowed money from her brother and purchased a swimming costume and joined an elite swimming pool in a modern city.she had to join the timings for mixed ?men and women joint time slot.She thought that it being a posh swimming club there would be no problems.
She requested a young lady doctor to help her learn the basics of swimming as this lady doctor had good skills of swimming.
The young girl did not want to hire the services of a coach as it was expensive.
On the third day her problems started . An elderly man who would come to pool with two of his sons below 8 year kept on coming to the side where she was learning to swim. When she politely asked him to move to the deeper side of pool, he said that she should not mind as pool is open at all places.
The young girl shifted to other side of pool but alas a man in sixties came via underwater swimming and struck her and then started muttering sorry but mischievous smile on face of this person could convey the bad feeling.
Next day a bunch of boys in twenties just settled down on the side of pool and started making double meaning words. She noticed that even other school girls were also being targeted. The pool owner tried in vain to persuade such persons but all pleaded innocence. The worst happened when some of the boys teased her in market place itself.But the young girl had to learn to swim ,so she kept on finding places in pool where she could swim?half the time was wasted in this and she could not afford to go to other pools as those were expensive.
After some days most of girls (only six ) realized that some of young boys and even elderly persons were staring at their swimming costumes and their body movements,there were clear attempts to touch them while swimming or jump near her as she was the eldest among girls as the lady doctor had stopped coming
She realized that although most men and boys are polished and polite in the city ,there are certain elements among boys and even elderly men who treated girls and women as object of fun ,their sole work is to stare hard especially in a swimming pool where girls had to be in costumes ---such males are a great negative for a middle class young girl to acquire good swimming skills.
It is difficult to protest all the time . So she kept on learning swimming strokes by shifting in pool all the time ---but all this she had to do with a heavy heart as some male with their egos could see her as nothing but a girl with a good figure in a swimming costume-THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF SUCH WRONG BEHAVIOUR of some boys and some men (NOT ALL AS CERTAIN BOYS and men are really nice also) really disturbed her.A woman has really to face a lot many problems to progress in life in a decent manner,she thought while doing the backstroke in swimming properly after a month.