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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids participate in summer swim and enjoy it but we are not obsessed at all.

I think it is summer camp for some of the adults.  They go back and see all their friends and they are "in" (because their pool is small and everyone is in or their pool is competitive and their kid is an A meet swimmer).  They get to feel like comfortable and in the cool club for a short window of time.  They know what to expect, who will they see, and pretty much everything that will happen for 8-10  weeks.  And it's not year round so just when everyone might be sick of each other, it's over.

I read a book recently called Bad Summer People about a bunch of NYers who summer on Fire Island every year and don't see each other the rest of the year.  Honest to god it reminded me of summer swim.[/quote]

The other thing that reminded me from this book is some swim parents have told me they hardly socialize during the winter.  (That is the case in this book with some of these NYers.)  Imagine your social life is kind of slow the rest of the year.  Summer swim would be a highlight.  Built in social life.[/quote]

I’ll freely admit that I am vastly more social over the summer at the pool than the other 9 months of the year.   I can walk up to the pool with a bottle of wine and spend the evening chatting with whoever is there.   Socializing takes more effort when the pool is closed.  [/quote]

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