Local TV did a news report about the new pool drain cover law. I happened to be in the YMCA pool at the time and so got on the news. They were looking for someone with a God-like physique and blinding speed, but they got me instead. Unfortunately, I was just doing a slow-ish (about 46-47 sec/50 yards) straight 2000 yard recovery swim, so nothing exciting. Still, I had never seen myself swim before - weird...
The bottom of the pool was FILTHY yesterday - I've never seen it so dirty.
In all cases, I am the closest/only swimmer.
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-LBJ
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Chekhov supposedly declared once that if you have a gun at the beginning of a play or story, the author has an obligation for that gun to go off by the end of the drama. It is for this reason that i was REALLY looking forward to seeing Leonard being sucked into the drain, only to be saved by the muscular lifeguard whose frequent appearances seemed to me to foreshadow his almost certain role as hero.
But no.
Leonard simply paddles gracefully and ever so safely back and forth, back and forth, almost as if in mockery of the pool suction law!
I admit that I am ashamed that I didn't pretend to be sucked down the drain given the amount of chaos (and a much more "interesting" news report) that it would have caused. It was a very close battle between Jedi Leonard and Darth Leonard. The tie-breaker was that Jeff, the guy who was being interviewed and the head of the YMCA, is an absurdly decent and earnest human being and probably would have stroked-out from embarassment had I done so. If one of the attractive female lifeguards had been on hand to rescue and revive me, Darth Leonard could have easily triumphed, however.
I will forever carry this lapse of bad behavior with regret.
-LBJ
Chekhov supposedly declared once that if you have a gun at the beginning of a play or story, the author has an obligation for that gun to go off by the end of the drama. It is for this reason that i was REALLY looking forward to seeing Leonard being sucked into the drain, only to be saved by the muscular lifeguard whose frequent appearances seemed to me to foreshadow his almost certain role as hero.
But no.
Leonard simply paddles gracefully and ever so safely back and forth, back and forth, almost as if in mockery of the pool suction law!
I admit that I am ashamed that I didn't pretend to be sucked down the drain given the amount of chaos (and a much more "interesting" news report) that it would have caused. It was a very close battle between Jedi Leonard and Darth Leonard. The tie-breaker was that Jeff, the guy who was being interviewed and the head of the YMCA, is an absurdly decent and earnest human being and probably would have stroked-out from embarassment had I done so. If one of the attractive female lifeguards had been on hand to rescue and revive me, Darth Leonard could have easily triumphed, however.
I will forever carry this lapse of bad behavior with regret.
-LBJ
