I did much the same thing
[Pearoast, sorry]

I'd gone an early morning swim while on holiday, aged about 11. My sister and I had gone waaaaayyy out to sea, because it was dead flat calm, almost mirror smooth. We'd made it out to a buoy about half a mile from the beach, and it was eerily silent; early morning with no-one around, no waves, no wind.

Slightly unsettling, already. Our voices seemed to be sucked away into nothingness. Facing away from the beach we seemed to be alone on an infinite, smooth plane of water, utterly alone in the ocean.

THEN I remembered that we'd seen Jaws the day before.

I think I was still swimming as I hit the road at the top of the beach...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 12:00, 2 replies)

swimming way out to sea can be fucking creepy anyway
even without having recently watched Jaws.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 12:16, closed)

I got creeped out
swimming my mile badge in the swimming baths just after having watched Jaws. I couldn't swim at the deep end on my back - had to go onto my front for that bit just in case someone had accidentally let a man-eating great white into the public baths.
(Smale is stuffed, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 12:24, closed)

No-one expects Pool Shark!

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 12:29, closed)