The college swim team was just about to finish up with their daily routine. Four were still in the water, another three were milling about in towels around the pool, chatting. The coach was long gone. You walk into the pool room and take a seat in the empty bleachers and take a look at the size gun. You decide to shrink the whole group gradually and watch to see how they react as they realize what is happening to them. Setting the gun on its widest setting, you take aim at the three toweled swimmers on the near side of the pool and give them a burst. Then, turning the gun on the pool, you give the four in the water a burst.
Even though you're a little far away, you can see the effect almost immediately. Like ice melting on a hot plate, the group around the pool slowly shrinks by about eight inches to a foot each over the course of the next five minutes. Lucky for them, their towels and trunks appear to be shrinking along for the ride. As for the ones in the pool, you can’t tell how much smaller they're getting. After a minute or two, one of the swimmers swims over to the ladder. As he hauls himself on to the expanded ladder, he promptly loses his speedo as he pulls himself out. He immediately splashes backwards, grabs his shorts and pulls them up. You recognize the swimmer as Rob, your roommate. As Rob pulls himself up the second time, speedo gathered up tightly in his left hand, you realize that he, originally about 5'9" appears to be less than 5' tall and still dwindling.
You watch as Rob makes a beeline for the towel rack. Once there, he checks his speedo, now ballooned around his shrunken waist. He grabs a towel and wraps it around himself. He allows the oversized swimsuit to fall to the ground. At this point, the whole team has stopped shrinking. Everybody is more or less a foot shorter than they were before and beginning to realize that something had happened. Most of the team lives in your dorm building, so you can go back there to see what the long term results might be, or you can head on down and check on them right here and now.
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