The Oi
Ahhhh chachachacha
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I’ll never have anything negative to say about AC.
When I lived in Bryan, Ohio as a kid AC showed up to Orchard Hills Country Club to visit one of his longtime friends during the summer. It happened to be one of my friends birthdays that day and we were having a swim party. None of the kids knew who he was but I remember the adults were making a pretty big deal about him.
Austin was sitting near the pro shop having some drinks when we did a watermelon drop. They would grease up a watermelon with vaseline and drop it to the bottom of the pool. The kids would dive to the bottom and try to bring it back up. It would usually keep getting deeper into the pool and become nearly impossible to get to the top unless you worked as a team, which kids never understood. The pool was about 9 feet deep.
At one point one of the kids started struggling near the deep water. A lot of people don’t know this but when somebody is drowning they often don’t yell “I’m drowning” or wave their arms. They just panic. Austin detected this from about 60 feet away, leapt into the water and pulled the kid out within the space of about 5 seconds. He then dried the kid off, bought him a drink at the snack shop and spent the next 10 minutes hanging out with him while the rest of the kids chased the greased watermelon in the pool.
Once the kid had calmed down, Austin jumped back into the water, swam to the bottom and pulled the watermelon out by himself. He then brought it over to the kid that almost drowned, punched through it and hand fed the first piece to the kid before ripping it apart so the rest of the kids could feast on it.
He then said goodbye to everyone and as far as I’m aware hasn’t been back to Bryan since.
When I lived in Bryan, Ohio as a kid AC showed up to Orchard Hills Country Club to visit one of his longtime friends during the summer. It happened to be one of my friends birthdays that day and we were having a swim party. None of the kids knew who he was but I remember the adults were making a pretty big deal about him.
Austin was sitting near the pro shop having some drinks when we did a watermelon drop. They would grease up a watermelon with vaseline and drop it to the bottom of the pool. The kids would dive to the bottom and try to bring it back up. It would usually keep getting deeper into the pool and become nearly impossible to get to the top unless you worked as a team, which kids never understood. The pool was about 9 feet deep.
At one point one of the kids started struggling near the deep water. A lot of people don’t know this but when somebody is drowning they often don’t yell “I’m drowning” or wave their arms. They just panic. Austin detected this from about 60 feet away, leapt into the water and pulled the kid out within the space of about 5 seconds. He then dried the kid off, bought him a drink at the snack shop and spent the next 10 minutes hanging out with him while the rest of the kids chased the greased watermelon in the pool.
Once the kid had calmed down, Austin jumped back into the water, swam to the bottom and pulled the watermelon out by himself. He then brought it over to the kid that almost drowned, punched through it and hand fed the first piece to the kid before ripping it apart so the rest of the kids could feast on it.
He then said goodbye to everyone and as far as I’m aware hasn’t been back to Bryan since.