{"id":1922,"date":"2008-05-14T22:49:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T02:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2008-05-14T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T02:49:59","slug":"speedos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"Speedos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heading to Flushing is a joy now, even it is still dirty, crowded and smell bad.\u00a0 The new pool<\/a> made me eager to go.\u00a0 The locker is very jammed, short benches were always full\u00a0with bags and stuff, we basically\u00a0got on top of each other!\u00a0 The floor is always watery.\u00a0 A cleaner comes in from time to time, she does it pretty nastily, splatter all over the place.\u00a0 That reminds me of\u00a0the new Equinox\u00a0opened in our town.\u00a0 that I tried\u00a0out.\u00a0 The cleaners would mop away a single sweat quickly and quietly, as if they were invisible.\u00a0 Of course, there is the\u00a0initiation fee $150\u00a0and\u00a0$110 per month ..<\/p>\n

When it first opened, the water heater wasn’t working, the water was cold.\u00a0 To me, it’s heaven, not only I had the pool all to myself, I even shed couple of minutes off of my 40 laps run – that’s a lot.\u00a0 I was just about to join, then on the fouth day, the heater worked properly and the temperture jumped to 85\u00b0<\/span> or so, aqua classes began and many walkers started to show up.\u00a0 So that ended my run.<\/p>\n

Back to Flushing pool.\u00a0 It’s only $75 per year, bring your own shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, and towel. Oh, no steam room either. .. ..\u00a0some slow swimmers would clog the lane!\u00a0 Don’t they have the slightest of coutesy?\u00a0 Many Asians.\u00a0 Haven’t seen this many naked Asian women and Speedos.\u00a0 Why Americans don’t like Speedo?<\/p>\n

When I took the kids to swim in Beijing, one young guy working there seemed very friendly to us and volunteered to help King.\u00a0 But on our third visit there, he was bit annoyed, “ok, this is the last time I’ll allow him to wear this shorts.”\u00a0 King had on a bright yellow bathsuit – long, baggy like homeboy.
\n“?? This IS a swimsuit.” I told him.
\nHe’s mad now. “What do you take me for? Haven’t I been nice to him?”
\n??
\n“You think I don’t know any better? .. Just becasue you’re from America? .. ..”
\nLord, wait a second. I wasn’t thinking. Looked around the pool, everyone had those speedos, if not the Speedo, it would still be tight, short and slinky..\u00a0 So the next day I bought him a Speedo.\u00a0 And I was told “Mom, it’s too small!”<\/p>\n

It seems only US uses inches and the rest of the world is using metrics ..the Americans use pj for swimming, while\u00a0the Europeans and Asians are into the sexy and slinky Speedos,\u00a0And it’s American men getting caught while\u00a0their pants down<\/a>.\u00a0 Hmmmm ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heading to Flushing is a joy now, even it is still dirty, crowded and smell bad.\u00a0 The new pool made me eager to go.\u00a0 The locker is very jammed, short benches were always full\u00a0with bags and stuff, we basically\u00a0got on top of each other!\u00a0 The floor is always watery.\u00a0 A cleaner comes in from time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","tag-swim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}