June 4, 2007
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This and that...
On Friday, we joined a pool for the summer and I think we'll be spending a lot of time there--we've gone every day. The pool in our subdivision is an unused eyesore...I was really hoping that it was going to be cleaned up and opened for the summer, but it didn't happen.
The O.H. pool has a fifteen minute safety break every hour. Today we caught on that it's always at the beginning of the hour--this was our third day to get to the pool, get everyone's shoes off and hop in, only to hear a whistle blow for "SAFETY BREAK!!"
So, today I got a little annoyed. I was in the kiddie pool with Lion and Pilot (2 and 8 mos.) when the whistle blew, and I waited for my dh to get to us to help take one of them. As I was saying, "We need to find out if the safety breaks are at the same time every day, because this keeps happening to us", a frenetic lifeguard comes over to admonish me, saying, "Anyone under 18 cannot stay in the pool during a safety break!" (I was still in the kiddie pool with my baby and my dh had taken Lion out of the pool).
I suddenly felt like I was a member of some despotic swimming pool. I'm in the process of getting my babies out for the safety break and I need to be reprimanded? I guess I should have taken a social cue from everyone else~they were out of the pool like it was a fire drill. I don't know...maybe I'm too laid back about these sorts of things, you know, non-emergencies or safety breaks. Maybe I don't respond like a dog to whistled commands.
I was a little steamed. Yeah. Later, there was a lot of roughhousing going on (my dh and I watched an adult woman tackle a kid to push him into the pool) and toys and balls were whizzing by our heads. Never heard a whistle. No, "Don't throw toys and balls towards the kiddie pool--there are babies in there!" or anything of the sort.
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:ROTFL: I know it's not supposed to be funny but you made it funny the way you told it. In our old neighborhood the pool there had safety breaks. I'm thinking Trey's fever might be from too much sun, he's not blistered but he's pinker than normal. I could kick myself for not making him wear a hat. Savannah was in there the same about of time and she's not even a little pink. The diffrence between hat and re-applying sunscreen. Maybe we should have "safety breaks"
Apparently I’m am very much behind in commenting, seems I missed several of your posts. I read and commented on most but don’t know if your like me and don’t always see the comments in older blogs….
May I ask what the heck is a "safety break" and why you need one every hour?? I have never heard of that and I don't get what it is. . .
LOL Jamie--it is funny!
Beth, I think it's a "safety" break to make the kids rest a few minutes, so they won't "drown"...:frog: But the kiddie pool?? Silly. When I was little, our outdoor pool would take "five-minute" breaks every once in a while--the kids would sit on the side of the pool w/ their feet dangling in the water...not so here.
Geez. What a horrible pool.
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