>>1655219The thought has occurred to me after all these years.
As I padded over, I thought "oh jeez, really? just swim you idiot", but the fact he nearly drown me really pissed me off. If we weren't standing in chest-high bobbing seawater, and both of us catching our breath, I might've actually decked him.
The beach wasn't super crowded by any means, but there were a few stands of chairs and little drink shacks, and people every hundred metres or so in the water. So it would have been obvious if I had swam away from a splashing commotion.
Anyway, I don't play lifeguard anymore. Only for my own kids, that's it.