Speedos - No thank you!

Another interesting tidbit about life in the Philippines... all the boys & men wear Speedos when swimming. (This must be a European thing.) In fact, my boys are typically the only ones wearing swimming trunks when we go down to the pool. This includes young kids all the way up to older men. It's a bit disturbing at times. For instance, today we went down to the pool after Nick's afternoon nap. There were just a few people there, including an old, white guy with his young, Filipino... girlfriend? wife? mistress? (I have no idea, really.) Remember the "old farts & young tarts" phrase that our relocation assistant, Cat, taught us? That described this couple to a tee! Here was this older man with a long, white hair combover & a beer belly wearing an eency weency tight black Speedo! It made me nauseous. But, to top it off... when he was helped out of the swimming pool by his young Filipino companion, we all got a lovely image of his backside, where his Speedo was not covering all it should be!!!!! That's what I mean by disturbing!!

We'll stick with our American swimming trunks!