Current Events > If a pool isn't AT LEAST 8 feet deep, it's a shit pool for shit people >_>

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I don't want my feet to touch the ground while I'm swimming.

Come at me bro
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Might as well shit and piss in it cause it's just a big toilet at such a tiny size

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I don't think I want to go to the shit people's shit pool regardless of its depth.

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Am 6' 6" can confirm.

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Reminds me of our last beach trip.

Well the DevsBros are fair-skinned people--one descending from the Irish and the other from the Scottish--so rather than apply three coats of SPF 4000, we often opt to do our swimming at night. Normally not a problem. Except...

There was this red tide epidemic, which can be bad but not usually a big deal, unless you are the usual list of old, child, pregnant, etc.

Well Countess DevsBro was pregnant so we stayed out of the ocean, for the then unborn child's sake. Just in case. The pool at the hotel was about four feet wide with a little bulb at each end because why would a beach hotel even need a pool in the first place (lol) so I kinda imagine it was more for swimming laps.

Now, the deep end was not bad. It was 8ft, which would be acceptable for a larger pool (but I mean, nobody's diving or whatever in this thing) so I mean, you could at least tread water. Turn in a circle or something I guess. Except...

There was this group of old women who lived in the pool. On the deep end. Presumably, they went elsewhere in the day, but at night this was their home. Well, I say they lived in the pool, but it's more accurate to say one of them lived in the pool. The others lived in the beach lawnchairs on the concrete. And I mean, in regular home fashion, they kicked back and lit up.

Now I'm not saying they were doing anything wrong--except in such capacity as smoking in general might be so considered--in fact, they were remarkably agreeable people. We even talked with the swimmer at length about the restaurants in the area (she hated them all, lol), the baby, etc. But both of us are quite averse to cigarette smoke, doubly so with turkey in oven, so we confined ourselves to the shallow bulb of the pool--a whopping 6'6'3' cube of slow motion crab walking. Yay beach.

I was more adventurous--and less pregnant--so I actually swam a couple of half-laps, but all the Countess could do was sit there in the water. Squat down, sit on the stairs, etc. And I mean, sure, it was nice. It was a swimming pool. They're always nice. Cool. Wet. Much pleasant. Very relax. Wow. But was not what we were expecting on our beach trip, lol.

Now we did have a lot of fun anyway. Ate pizza and buffalo wings watching football on the balcony. Went to the fort, the wildlife preserve, etc. Got a lot of reading done. It was a good trip, a farewell to youth.

But that pool was the most amazingly disappointing swimming I have done in my entire life, lol.

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Swimming pools are extremely overrated

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Jeez, Irish and Scottish? Surprised you don't get moonburn.

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eston posted...

Swimming pools are extremely overrated

Poor Viscount. His father and mother are both from very fare descent.

I think I am very slightly Asian as well but couldn't guess what part.

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Ranting Nord posted...

Am 6' 6" can confirm.

Have you tried not being a Ogre?