A SWIM MEET, MACGRUBER, AND THE WORST NIGHT OF MY LIFE

Many of my friends know this story, but I’m not sure many of them know this detail that made one of the worst nights of my life—and easily the single worst night at the time—that much worse.

There are three things you need to know before I tell this story:

1. I swam competitively from ages 7 to 24.
2. MacGruber is currently a comedy series streaming on Peacock starring Will Forte. MacGruber is a parody of the original MacGyver series, the premise of which is that MacGyver is a secret agent whose schtick is that he is really resourceful and handy. Before that, MacGruber was a movie that came out in 2010 and flopped pretty bad. Before that—and most pertinent to this story— it was a recurring sketch on SNL. Unfamiliar with these sketches? Click here.
3. I loved SNL in high school and still do today.

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