By Jamie
Copyright 2025 by Jamie, all rights reserved
[2,172 words]
* * * * *Mrs Martin remembers - a prequel to The Cheap Ticket
19
year old Betty Davison was an accomplished swimmer and had been busy
after college each week undertaking her swimming instructor’s courses.
It was a proud day when she received her certificates and was fully
authorised to teach swimming. Now all she needed was to find a job
which would help supplement her living costs whilst at college.
A couple of weeks later she presented herself at the Municipal swimming
complex in a small nearby town of Gardenia. There she was met Mrs
Sandra Travis and Mr. Colin Lawson the head of education and complex
manager respectively. The interview went well and armed with
certificate and references; the job was hers. She would initially have
two classes the level 2 Tadpoles mostly aged 5-7, on Saturday mornings
and the Level 4 Dolphins usually aged 10-12 on Monday after school. The
classes were mixed.
A few days later she went along on
Thursday to observe some classes in action with Sandra, an enthusiastic
muddle aged lady who was very proud of their swimming programme. Sandra
showed Betty around the complex which had 3 pools, a diving pool, a
large 25 metre pool and a smaller teaching pool. Both pools were end to
end and there was tiered seating all along the side so families and
friends could watch both swimming lessons and race meets.
"Right so here we are Betty at the teaching pool, we have one group on
a Thursday the level 3 Sharks who are improvers and are usually aged
between 8 and 10. Daphne is their teacher, she is a final year college
student been with us side she was 16 as a junior lifeguard.”
Betty looked up and saw that Daphne was in a smart blue swimsuit like
the one she had been given and lined up in front of her were 9
children. She immediately noticed that whilst the girls were wearing
swimsuits the boys were completely naked! She wasn’t quite believing it
when Sandra continued,
“As you can see the boys here swim
naked in our swim school. We firmly believe that boys have no need for
trunks until they start to mature, the top age in the school is usually
12. The boys grow up with this and its good education for the girls
too. We find also that by being naked the boys better too.”
She nodded and smiled “yes I can understand that!” What fun she thought
as looked over at the 4 naked boys lined up on the side of the pool
with 5 girls. Their little willies were on show to not only the girls
but to some mums and siblings watching from the seating.
"It’s a nice sights isn’t it, Betty? Little boys love being naked and
swimming we rarely get any complaints about the policy from parents. In
fact if a boy complains he is more likely to be chastised for being
silly".
They watched the class for a while before moving on
to the office where Sandra went through the class lists. Right so on
Saturday morning you’ve got 8 boys and girls for Tadpoles, they can all
swim a length of the teaching pool and you have the lesson plans. Looks
like there are 3 girls and 5 boys for this class. Then on Monday you
have got the oldest group Dolphins. These will all be good swimmers so
it’s all about stroke work, strength, distance and also diving from the
side of the pool. Children can join the swim club at 13 but they must
have passed the Dolphins course which is 25m in each of the 4 strokes
competently, 100m in 2 strokes, and 200m in their best stroke. They
must be able to perform a good dive from the side, tread water for 5
minutes and be able to tumble turn. Most children are usually achieving
this within the year, but of course they are all different.”
“Sometimes we get older ones who still need swimming lessons maybe
because they’ve found it hard or just started to learn to swim late.
Let’s see - yes you’ve got 10 children in the class, there’s 6 boys and
4 girls, and I can see there is a 13 year old girl Ivy, lovely girl but
lacks confidence in her abilities and oh a 14 year old boy called
Harry. He is new to swim school; I met his mother last week they have
just moved to the town over the summer. She said he can swim but not
yet got all the strokes covered. Well after the first lesson you will
quickly see where all the children are at, I’m sure. I think that’s
everything Betty, any questions?”
Betty shook her said but
then one thought did pop into her mind as she looked out of the office
window overlooking the teaching pool and saw the naked boys ...
“This new boy what’s the rules for him in terms of costume as he is 14?”
“Oh yes of course all boys regardless of the age swim naked in swim
school we are very clear about that, the boy’s mother knows. We have to
all the boys the same.”
Betty nodded and said of course! And
so the scene was set for Bettys first lessons! The tadpole class on
Saturday morning was delightful; the boys and girls were such fun and
Betty was really pleased with how it went. And so Monday came around
and she arrived early changed and waited for her class. She had her
folder and name list and had observed that for the classes the children
lined up along the far end of the pool.
There were no other
classes, so she had full use of the teaching pool to herself. The main
pool was not too busy, but she did notice a fair few children arriving
for a swim after school.
Soon her class started to emerge
from the two changing rooms, they were easy to spot as swim school
pupils all had to wear swim caps. As they approached and stood around
Betty smiled to herself at the sight of the naked boys some of whom
were definitely self-conscious of their exposure!
She quickly counted and soon all 10 were present. She called them to order and told them to line up.
“Right hello everyone I’m Miss Davison your Dolphin swim teacher.
Delighted to be teaching you this year, and I’m sure we will all have
good fun and learn a lot together. So let me take the register and then
we can see where you are in terms of your swimming. Now hands by your
sides please and answer your name please. She began to call out the
names each answered here Miss. She noticed the boys were mostly
sporting little willies but there were a couple who had clearly started
developing, small amounts of hair around their bigger willies, these
boys were Peter and Bertie. At the end of the line was a taller boy who
was clearly not very happy, he had a quite a long willy and as she
rightly guessed he was the new boy Harry, 14. Whilst his willy was
easily the longest, he was though still very much a boy!
“Right everyone pop in the pool and spread out, and I just want to
watch you all swim one length breaststroke and one freestyle. Its not a
race, I’m lookig at your stroke.”
The kids got in the pool and
Betty watched them from the side observing their technique. After the
two lengths she asked them to do a length of back stroke and noticed
that this was not as good as the other strokes, not surprising as it
was a harder stroke to perfect. She hopped into the pool and called the
group over explaining they would start with back stroke.
“I’m going to show you an exercise and then I want you to practice it
in pairs.” She looked around and called Thomas over, he was one of the
younger boys.
“Right. Thomas is going to float on his back
and a gently kick the legs to move backwards.” The boy did as he was
instructed, and Betty pointed out that she had seen with quite a few of
them they needed to be higher in the water. She put her hand under his
bottom and pushed it up lightly which as a result meant his willy was
more visible and waggling about. A couple of the girls giggled. Betty
smiled but made no comment
"As part of the swimming rules for
backstroke some part of the body must throughout break the surface of
the water, that means you need to be higher in the water. Some of you
are dropping a bit you need the body to be more horizontal; it can
naturally roll from side to side. Did you notice the difference Thomas
when you were higher?”
The boy nodded. “Right so get into pairs and watch your partner and help make the body higher in the water.”
Betty moved between the pairs and couldn’t help but see the willies
fully on show, the girls were definitely enjoying the show!
The boys were a bit embarrassed but knew no arguments were allowed.
Harry was paired up with Ivy as the two eldest children. Betty said
hello to them both and watched as Harry on his back did the exercise.
Ivy was being quite tentative in helping Harry, so Betty showed her.
“Right Harry float on your back, now see here Ivy, Harry’s bottom is
lower than his chest, that happens naturally but it helps if he can
raise it a little bit higher. So put your hand here placing it under
his bottom and gently push it up as he moves along. A good sign that he
is high enough is if his willy is clearly visible, sorry Harry but
boy’s bodies gives us a good indicator of how high you are in the
water. So push him up gently so the willy can be seen . Okay.”
Poor Harry felt so embarrassed, as Ivy took over and Betty moved on to another pair.
“Your willy is very nice Harry, quite long isn’t it.” Ivy giggled and
Harry couldn’t really reply as he tried to concentrate on the task. The
lesson continued and they ended the session with diving from the edge.
“Right well done everyone” said Betty as they climbed out the pool. “Try and practice if you can and see you next week.”
She called Harry over as the kids headed back to the changing room.
“Well done, Harry. I understand you are new to the town. You’ve got
some good technique on your breast stroke and excellent diving too.
Work hard and we will get you through the Dolphins pretty quickly. I
understand you want to join the swim club afterwards
“Yes Miss” he said feeling very awkward standing there naked in front of this young lady only a few years older than himself.
Betty smiled “I know it’s difficult being naked at 14 but it wouldn’t
be fair on the other boys if you were allowed to wear trunks. All the
same and besides I can see you havent started puberty yet, two of the
boys have and the girls can see their growing willies, so I’m sure you
will soon get used to it. You look fine to me.”
Poor Harry
blushed red, she laughed “well Ivy certainly enjoyed meeting you today,
she’s a similar age, is she in your year at school?”
He nodded “yes in my class.”
“Great a new friend for you hopefully then. Right run along then and see you next week.”
The boy scuttled off and Betty looked at the now empty pool thinking I’m going to enjoy this!
15 minutes later Harry stood outside the pool waiting for his mum to
pick him up he heard a voice calling his name and he turned to see Ivy
approaching with another girl whom he recognised as being in his class
too.
“Hi Harry, that was a fun lesson, this is Isabel, she’s
in swim club. I have been telling her how we did backstroke together
today. You did well.”
Isabel smiled “I think I might come and
watch you guys next week, give you support. Theres lots to see, I used
to love swim lessons, all those naked boys!”
The girls both giggled,
“See you at school tomorrow, Harry!”
And off they went, poor Harry felt awful. He heard them laugh and knew
exactly what they were laughing about. .... But he knew there was no
way out of it, he wanted to join swim club which required completion of
level 4 which meant being naked every week in the pool! God this is so
embarrassing He looked up and saw his mum driving up towards him.
He got in the car, and she smiled and asked how did it go....