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Pool Owners’ Pleasures
and Perils - part 1
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WHEN the swimming season opens everyone is enthusiastic. But no one is more enthusiastic than your children's friends. For two weeks before you plan to open the pool
they have been appearing with their suits and towels under their
arms, or wearing their suits under their jeans and clam diggers, and trying to act very nonchalant. This latter group is
made up of ten-year-olds who have learned by now that it isn't
polite to ask; they just stand around all day with a kind of
yearning look. So the day you say you will open your pool,
you'd better open it, or be prepared to hear the most mournful
wails.
There is nothing so startling as the first time a neighbor
child comes to your door dressed in a swimming suit and announces at your breakfast table, "My mother says I have to be
home by five." This happens only once. Next time you are prepared with: "Five minutes before eleven, or five minutes after
eleven?" "Before, I think," and that's settled.
When you are doing your Christmas shopping, you may see
a child who looks familiar to you, but you just can't place him.
When he sees you staring at him, he gives you a very disinterested look, but some time later you recall that he was one
of the children who swam in your pool the preceding summer.
The reason why you do not recognize one another is that you
both have all your clothes on.
You will always have swimming pool friends, i.e., people
you only see in the summer. But this is fine, because this is
about all you have in common with one another. You have the
pool, and people like to swim. How many of these strangers
you have visiting your pool will depend on a great many things
—on how many children you have; on how many friends they
have; and on how many friends their friends have. How many
friends of friends you allow will depend on how much time you
have and on how bighearted you are. It is very difficult, however, when eight little boys and girls are swimming, and an
eager face appears and someone yells "Hi, Billy," for you to
say anything else but "Do you have a suit, Billy?"
This question brings up another point, by the way, which is
worth discussing. Even though you are loaded down with suits
of many sizes, it is a good idea to send your young friends
home to get their own suits and towels. In this way, you will
not be blamed for letting a child swim whose parents had
called the doctor in the middle of the night before because the
child had a temperature of 103. It will also eliminate the
problem of an irate mother stamping her foot angrily on the
pool deck because her child, who won't get out of the water,
has a bongo lesson in fifteen minutes.
Sometimes neighborhood children who swim frequently in
your pool avoid the great inconvenience of having to tote a suit
back and forth by leaving their suits in your dressing room.
Often the mothers of these children will call to say that their
family is leaving for the beach in five minutes, that they have
looked high and low for their child's suit. Is it at your pool?
The pool owner checks to find that another child is wearing the
suit and is making great waves in a life raft at that moment,
but promises the mother she will get the child out of the suit
as fast as she can, or would she like her child to borrow a dry
suit for the trip? Well, this can get pretty complicated. Sometimes the child who borrows the dry suit continues to wear it
a few times at the pool until, one day, he is accused by the
original owner of swiping his suit. The accused culprit in turn
accuses the pool owner of losing his suit, leaving the pool
owner thoroughly confused.
Related terms include swim stroke and swim techniques.
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