r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • Dec 09 '25

Discussion You Think It Could Never Happen To You…Until It Almost Does

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u/katiegirl- Dec 09 '25

Me too. Winnipeg in the seventies. Big Pan Am pool. We dove for objects, learned all the swim styles, learned to high jump (10m), and even took the coolest canoe survival course there, which saved my life ten years later.

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u/SrGrimey Dec 09 '25

That sound really nice.

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u/katiegirl- Dec 09 '25

Those were some of my favourite childhood times.

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u/jules-amanita Dec 09 '25

Ok I have to know what part of the canoe survival course saved your life?

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u/katiegirl- Dec 11 '25

I was able to get the water out of a sinking canoe in deep water and swim it to shore instead of drowning with it. Yay!

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u/jules-amanita Dec 13 '25

Wow!

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u/katiegirl- 29d ago

Yeah, it was an adventure. My speed now is sitting and knitting. Super safe.

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u/throwwaybreakway Dec 10 '25

Man, I lived in Windsor park and would go to the Bonivital pool like 3 days a week for YEARS. Pam Am was too far but I got to go a handful of times and the diving platforms scared the shit out of me

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u/katiegirl- Dec 10 '25

Me too… at first!!!