This book has many different stories. The nicest one is "No Sweat". Mark is at the swimming pool, because he has to do a contest, in which he will swim one hundred laps, and his two friends fifty each. Mark looks at his opponents: four youths with a coach and an old woman. Mark dives in the pool and begins swimming. He sees that the four youths are doing only fifty laps each, and he feels very superior. When he is at ninety laps, and still doesn't see his friends coming, he begins to preoccupy. When he finishes his hundred, his lap-counter and Joan, the old woman, spur him on, telling him to go on until is friends come, or his laps will be annulled, and he squalified. Only after fifty more laps he realises that his friends will not come, and had never ment coming. So, he is spurred on by his anger and by Joan's support. He finishes and goes to spur Joan, that is still swimming, alone.
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