As a kid i was not interested in swimming until i was 7, OK i wore trunks/speedos on the beach but just saw them as beach clothes. but when i was 7 things changed we went on holiday with a friend of dads from work. his 2 boys were twins and a year younger than me. they swam well and i really wanted to be like them. . i could bore you with the long story but... after the holiday dad took me swimming to get me to swim i learnt to swim quickly and got to like it. the following summer we did the same holiday but this time i could join in. i noted that dads friends 2 boys left their speedos on after a swim, i started to do the same...in fact after the first 2 days i wore them day and night. that was my first experience of wearing my speedos as underwear.
it was the following year when i was 9 that i started doing swimming at school, by this time i was the best in my year, loved swimming and swam with dads friends 2 boys most nights at the local lake. so it just seemed better then to wear my speedos all the time dad agreed and bought me a second pair.
now i have 2 sons of my own the oldest is 9 and the youngest 5 both brought up loving the water. the youngest could swim by the time he was 30 months old and had his first speedos at 2, he saw me wearing mine as underwear when he was 3 and wanted to do the same. the wife did not think it a good idea but it was summer and hot weather so we let him during the school holidays when the wife was home. he loved it and later that year when summer ended he did not want to go back to boxers. so we agreed on a month trial with his speedos and never looked back. the youngest son he was no different he wore speedos from very young too. i remember one weekend trip to the beach he had his speedos on at the beach. he was not much older than 2, at the end of the day we wanted him to dry off and change but he did not want to he threw a strop, shouted and bawled until he peed in his speedos. we had to take him to the sea to clean up and we just towel dried him and he went back to the hotel in just his speedos he was happy to be just like his brother. for the rest of the holiday he wore those speedos he was not fully dry at night so he had to be put in a nappy for sleeping. but the last night of the holiday he must have woken up in the night and removed his nappy and put his speedos on and gone back to bed. luckily he did not pee that night. after that he wore them at home all summer and when he was dry at night we tried him sleeping in them too.
the wife died from cancer last year so just the three of us now the boys do miss their mum and so do i but we have plenty of trips to the beach which helps us all stay happy.
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