They ask me why and I tell them “so I can sit on the boards and have a catch with someone.” They produce the second kickboard within a few minutes. The football came sometime later (which seemed to be an eternity to me). It was one of those orange nerf footballs. I specifically remember this because I was having a catch with one of the men from the man with the white hair’s group.
I’m bobbing on the water with the two kicking boards stacked and squeezed between my legs as I sit on them. To get more leverage, I would grab the edge of the tub with my right hand and throw it with my left as I am left-handed. After a while, I became bored again. So, as a joke, I dunked the nerf ball in the nice warm bath water and I threw it to the guy I was having a catch with. He was only ten or fifteen yards away but I threw it as hard as I could.
It was a perfect spiral and I hit him right in the chest. The thing is, it knocked him right onto his back and the other men who were watching all began laughing. The laughter continued for a few seconds but then when he didn’t get up the laughter stopped and they all went over to him. He eventually got up, but the other men basically had to carry him into the hallway.
I could tell that he was going to be all right but he was hurting. That was the end of the football and the end of my kickboards. I had to tread water for quite a while longer after that, the atmosphere had gone from very festive to very serious. The thing is when they finally pulled me out of the tub, my skin was as red as a ripe tomato, and as they rubbed me down with towels I couldn’t feel them. I couldn’t feel anything touching my skin. My penis had shrunk so much I had to check to make sure it was still there.
I believe that the water was not hot but very cold and they were trying to see how long my body could overcome hypothermia using only the power of suggestion in the mind. I have no idea how cold the water actually was, or how long I was actually in the tub but I can be sure that it was hours. After they dried me off they made me do jumping jacks and pushups down on the floor. As I’m doing my pushups I hear a noise over my right shoulder, one of Adolph’s men were picking up the towels they had just dried me off with and tripped or slipped on something and I watched him fall in the tub with my right eye. I heard everybody running behind me.
After a few seconds, I hear the man with the white hair yelling at me to get my ass up there. I stop doing my pushups and hurry up the ladder. When I get to the top, I recognized the guy in the water, he was one of the more likable guys out of the original group. When I see it’s him, I start laughing my ass off and I said something stupid like “how’s the water” but everyone around me is VERY serious and they are frantically trying to get the man to grab the end of a broom handle.
This guy was a big and burly guy (over 6′-2″ and at least 250 pounds). Yet I watched as he could barely close his hand around the broom handle. He was fully clothed and was wearing a heavy dark wool overcoat. They manage to get him over to the edge but there was no foothold or leverage to pull him in and they could not get him out of the water. They tried several times, but the man could not move his arms at all to help them. The man with the white hair now jumps in and tries to lift him out of the water with one hand while holding onto the edge with the other to no avail.