Not quite tradition!

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I was a Cox for my rowing team a couple of years ago. One race, I was coxing a girl's 8 boat. My boat won the race and as is tradition, the Cox has to go into the water. My rowers gave me the option to just jump out of the boat instead of having them throw me, so I agree to do so.

We get about 100 meters away from shore and I stand up and get ready to jump out. I was wearing a set of board shorts, like the rest of the team. I didn't notice when the stroke, my girlfriend, grabbed my shorts just before I jumped in the water. I was already not wearing a shirt, since I'd been working out a lot and wanted to show off, and before the race I said to myself 'what the heck, if we win I'm going to get soaked anyways' so I wasn't wearing any underwear.

You probably guessed what happened by now. I jumped out and landed in the water, completely naked. Then my team rowed off with my shorts. I had to swim nearly a mile before I found a spot where no one was looking and I hid there until my girlfriend came along with my shorts.

I quit coxing the next day. I'm much too heavy to Cox and one of the best rowers on my team now. I married my girlfriend, and everyone who was on that boat still laughs about it. Lucky for me, nobody else I know was around to notice. Whenever they want to get their way, they just have to mention it.