I walked in the family room to laughter. On my way there, my kids told me that there was this girl on the TV with arm floaties on, scared to go down a water slide. I looked up and saw a black man on the screen. I instantly wondered if it was another black non-swimmer on the TV embarrassing herself.

No, actually it was a white woman. And she never did get the nerve to go down the water slide.

Neither black man in line behind her, however, hesitated to go down the slide. I later heard that there were sharks in the pool at the base of the water slide.

What have we learned here? Swim skills get you through The Amazing Race? Folks that can’t swim are funny? Or don’t judge a book by its cover? Insert cliche here?