An guys here who swim with their shirt on?

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Swimming is the only time I'm shirt-less around other people.

this failure to communicate reminds me of an old kurt vonnegut story about an astronaut named zog, who is from the planet mongo, where the natives communicate by means of f@rts and tap-dancing. he was on a planet-scouting mission, when he spots earth and says, "that's the place for me!" so he descends and lands across the street from a house afire. he jumps out of his flying saucer and runs into the house, f@rting and tap-dancing in a desperate attempt to warn the occupants of the imminent danger they are in, whereupon the head of the household brains zog with a golf club.

the moral of the story is that communication is fraught with pitfalls.

That story made me chuckle.

I swim without a shirt on. All it does is create drag. Besides, I almost never burn.

I don't swim [a sensory thing from way back] and these days most times I don't even step in the water. But since teens if I am going to hang out at the beach I have a shirt on.

It is partly the burn factor - I tend to be sensitive.

But it is mainly the exposure. I don't care that nobody is going to look or care. I know that - big deal. I don't care that my body [while it has never been Greek god level] is no worse than the average Joe and better than an awful lot who strip down to Speedos.

I simply do NOT feel comfortable being potentially seen. If I go alone to an empty beach - maybe even if I own the whole lake - shirt is on.

Nope.