"Miss Purser was a good teacher," Rapunzel always said.
Usually my mom is right, but I had to disagree on this point.
Miss Purser, or Satan as I liked to call her, was my swimming teacher. I was four years old and terrified of the water, so naturally I would cry. "She knew that if one child cried, they would all cry, so she had to stop you from crying," Rapunzel would say. "The best way to do that was to toss you into the water."
Miss Purser/Satan was a terrible teacher. She was supposed to teach me how to swim, and here I am at forty-five years old, after all these years taking private lessons and learning how to swim.
My current swimming teacher doesn't throw me in the middle of the pool when I get scared and cry. She says nice words and waits till I calm down and then teaches me all the things. I can float on my back, and swim on my stomach, and put my head underwater, and jump in the deep end, and hold my breath till I resurface, and not be afraid, and prevent myself from drowning.
Rapunzel is usually right, but Miss Purser/Satan was a terrible teacher. Mrs. Kooy is an excellent teacher. Jeremy Renner is an excellent actor. I hope Miss Purser gets chlorine water up her nose.
