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On a hot summers day in the wild jungle/savanna/forest/mountains or whatever metaphor you’d like to apply to university, all the animals/creatures/fauna or whatever metaphor you’d like to apply to varsity students flock to the only place to be…. The watering hole, aka the pool! There is no better place to cool down on a sweltering Grahamstown day then at the pool, although knowing G-Town weather you might need a coat to take shelter from freezing winds, however that is a topic for another post!
There are a few things though that need to be pointed out about the pool; in all honesty it doesn’t just serve as a cool down spot, it is yet another crazy example of a unique social context. Just today I was attempting to crisp myself in the sun (you’ll find most of the white folk tend to lie around in the sun, crisping) and I was attempting to get some video footage of what the vibe is like around the pool. So just to my right was a “2-set”, (this is guy-talk for 2 humans of the female form) being pursued by 2 red-blooded males. Now as it should be known, the way to act in situations like this if you are; a) Female, twist your hair between your fingers, laugh excessively loudly at the guys jokes and feel free to glance up and down the males body, admiring (or at least pretending to admire) his physique, which brings me to, b) Male, tense all you muscles as often as you can, finding whatever position you can that might show off your physique, take any opportunity you can to flex your manliness by throwing girls in the water or racing other males across the pool (in theory, the winner gets the girl, but that’s just theory) and otherwise just be as Alpha-Male as possible.
Back to my situation, so I’m recording and the AMOG (basically the most “Alpha-male of group”) of the 2 guys seducing the 2-set realizes that I am recording and seems to take offence, for what I don’t know, he went on about the ladies privacy(him trying to win brownie points). He obviously spots this as a moment to apply macho-ness and decides to confront me about the video. What he doesn’t realize is that the “2-set” he’s trying to seduce is actually a good friend of mine and her sister. So I play along and pander to his demands, by deleting the video (it was boring anyway). He struts back to the group, feeling like he must be a real man now and that the “2-set” must be really impressed with him... But I get the last laugh, so I pack up my stuff (he’s really smirking now as he thinks he’s scared me off) and I walk over to his “2-set”, greet my friend, ask if she feels like going for a walk and a drink, to which she gleefully accepts. We link arms; I give him a quick smile and a “cheers bud” and walk away… Looking back as he sits with a very embarrassed look on his face and looking distinctly pink (Somehow I don’t think it was sun-burn)
Moral of the story, the pool is a treacherous area of cut-throat flexing, manliness and twiddling of hair, so be prepared. Unless of course you just came for the swim…
Mucho Amore
The Piet
There are a few things though that need to be pointed out about the pool; in all honesty it doesn’t just serve as a cool down spot, it is yet another crazy example of a unique social context. Just today I was attempting to crisp myself in the sun (you’ll find most of the white folk tend to lie around in the sun, crisping) and I was attempting to get some video footage of what the vibe is like around the pool. So just to my right was a “2-set”, (this is guy-talk for 2 humans of the female form) being pursued by 2 red-blooded males. Now as it should be known, the way to act in situations like this if you are; a) Female, twist your hair between your fingers, laugh excessively loudly at the guys jokes and feel free to glance up and down the males body, admiring (or at least pretending to admire) his physique, which brings me to, b) Male, tense all you muscles as often as you can, finding whatever position you can that might show off your physique, take any opportunity you can to flex your manliness by throwing girls in the water or racing other males across the pool (in theory, the winner gets the girl, but that’s just theory) and otherwise just be as Alpha-Male as possible.
Back to my situation, so I’m recording and the AMOG (basically the most “Alpha-male of group”) of the 2 guys seducing the 2-set realizes that I am recording and seems to take offence, for what I don’t know, he went on about the ladies privacy(him trying to win brownie points). He obviously spots this as a moment to apply macho-ness and decides to confront me about the video. What he doesn’t realize is that the “2-set” he’s trying to seduce is actually a good friend of mine and her sister. So I play along and pander to his demands, by deleting the video (it was boring anyway). He struts back to the group, feeling like he must be a real man now and that the “2-set” must be really impressed with him... But I get the last laugh, so I pack up my stuff (he’s really smirking now as he thinks he’s scared me off) and I walk over to his “2-set”, greet my friend, ask if she feels like going for a walk and a drink, to which she gleefully accepts. We link arms; I give him a quick smile and a “cheers bud” and walk away… Looking back as he sits with a very embarrassed look on his face and looking distinctly pink (Somehow I don’t think it was sun-burn)
Moral of the story, the pool is a treacherous area of cut-throat flexing, manliness and twiddling of hair, so be prepared. Unless of course you just came for the swim…
Mucho Amore
The Piet
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