After being on a swim team for 8 years, the Water Rules have been somewhat modified. What are Water Rules? You know, "Walk, don't run." (Who wants to run after swimming 10,000 meters in practice?) "Must pass test to enter deep water." (Yep, did that at age 6.) "No diving in shallow end." (Well, we dive wherever those starting blocks tell us to dive.) The rules of the pool now run along these lines. "Mark absolutely everything you own with your name." (If it is not marked, it will be up for grabs.) "Even if you do mark everything, there is no guarantee that you will be able to locate it once you set it down, so buy things that are distinguishably yours from across the pool." (Buy one style of swim towel in quantity...if there are 11 swim practices a week, buy eleven towels of the exact same color and design. There is a chance that everyone will think you own only one towel, but at least everyone will know that it is your towel and it will be around at the end of the week.) "Goggles belong one of three places: on your head, around your neck, or in your zippered swim bag out of sight." (Goggles cannot be marked and everyone knows this...if you randomly set those babies down, they are goners...the real expense in swimming is not in team fees, meet fees, swim apparel...etc. The real expense is in replacing goggles at $18.00 a pop. I would not even want to calculate how many goggles we have replaced over the years.) "Never, never leave ANYTHING unattended in the locker room that you hope to ever see again." (Swim bags left behind in the locker room are rifled through by countless others and very few items remain intact at the end of such rifling...and this is not from fellow swimmers.) And the number one rule of the pool for 14 year old boys is "Swim on a full stomach!" (It will be hours before you get a chance to eat again...this food must sustain you for three hours of practice!) Hi, Ho, Hi, Ho...it's off to the pool we go...WATER RULES!