
Its summer. Its getting hot. It makes you want to don a bathing suit and go swimming.
Yeah right.
I discovered a wonderful older documentary about that terrifying wonderful film that still 34
years later strikes terror in our hearts. I was 2 or 3 when I first remember watching it. I remember that music scaring me half to death. THEN I saw the SHARK! my parents delighted in reaching over and grabbing me at really tense moments. Loving parents. Really.
I remember thinking that the first victim was such a pretty lady.

My husband and I eagerly await the release on dvd of The Shark Is Still Working. My husband and I are both movie freaks. We each have our favorites. Jaws is one of them . He bought me a poster of it and had it professionally framed. I have seen Jaws several times. Jaws two about 10. Jaws 3...A horrible 3-D venture 3 times. And Jaws 4: The Revenge. Where the shark follows Widow Body from Amity across the ocean to Jamacia. The only good thing about that was Michael Caine. I admit that I wouldn't get in to the bath after watching jaws. Much less my kiddie pool or the local lake. "It was just a movie! You chicken shit ...get in here!" My big sister would yell when I refused to put my toes in the water at Norris lake all those summers ago.
I couldn't swim until about 2 summers ago,When my husband paiently drug me into the pool and
waited while I tried to get my slower,cebral palsy inflicted right arm and leg to work along with the normal left sided limbs. It took quite awhile. But very slowly I managed to get somewhere.
I can float on both stomach and back. I can swim a little.
Will I ever let my husband take me to Florida to visit my new marine biologist Grandmother and go swimming with real sharks? Maybe.

The funny thing about this is that I've never seen the Jaws movies..but Josh asked me about then just a few weeks ago, all wide eyed and "Emery, is there a movie where a giant shark attacks people?" "Yeah Josh, that's Jaws.." "oh, am I old enough to watch it?"
ReplyDeleteSo far as I'm concerned I'm still not old enough to watch it. I'm very much you as a kid, where it wouldn't matter if it was bathtub, if I'm scared I won't get in lol.
Kudos for leaning to swim!
It's a fantastic experience ^_^