Pappy
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The turpentine smell was bad and I lived in the country so I stayed around the house for a few days. School was out, I think..
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When I was a teenager I went to Florida with my mother and sister for a vacation. I took some water skiing lessons and was having a great time. I was wearing a bikini, and as I was skiing, my top came off. Meanwhile the instructors in the boat were not only there, but there were a bunch of people watching from a nearby dock. I immediately freaked out, dropped the handle and went under the water. Luckily I was able to grab my top and get it back on without putting on any more of a show. I was super embarrassed, and when I went back to my mother she blew it off and told me not to overreact, that nobody was looking at me, somehow that didn't make me feel any better. 
AprilT
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Oh Sea, I felt your pain when reading that story, I had several of those incidences when I was a teen especially when wearing my favorite yellow bikini, yep bought based on that song and wore it to death. LOL, but, too much up top for my own teenage self and my tops in those days, times, at the pools there was there were the occassional boobie escape from it's enclosure and that wasn't a good feeling. I did eventually start wearing t-shirts with it, but, at some pools, they wouldn't allow you to wear any clothing item into the pool. So there'd you'd be just jumping up and down having a great time and next thing you know people are grinning and your friends are telling you you're exposed, very horrifying. Freaked out is a good way of putting, but after about, 15 minutes back on my towel in the hot sun, the embarrassment wore off and back in the water I went, making sure to avoid too much jumping and just more swimming and checking myself before standing up where everyone can see me.
So there'd you'd be just jumping up and down having a great time and next thing you know people are grinning and your friends are telling you you're exposed, very horrifying. Freaked out is a good way of putting, but after about, 15 minutes back on my towel in the hot sun, the embarrassment wore off and back in the water I went, making sure to avoid too much jumping and just more swimming and checking myself before standing up where everyone can see me.
Debby
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Yeah the teen years are always painful, no matter the era eh folks? Just be glad that all of the events that we've mentioned above didn't happen in the time of cellphone cameras everywhere! How much worse those experiences could have been!
Yeah Debby, cell phone cameras weren't around then. Those were the days you still took your film to the drug store to get it developed, or waved the picture in the air to dry from an instant Polaroid camera. That would have made those things a lot worse, lol!
April, that must have been very uncomfortable for you, my incident sounds mild in comparison, at least I was surrounded by strangers. I'm always looking down and checking myself now when I wear a bathing suit, even though it's only a one piece...things happen with the motion of the ocean.