we need a pool! (645 hits)
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Submitted by Corn Nugget (View user info) at 2004-10-16 11:32:36 EDT
We sat under the swings, drawing designs into the spot we had worn bare by dragging our feet. It was hot, we had swung, made a fort, played at the farm, and played tag.
What a waste of a summer day.
The three of us clambered into the house, "Mom, we're BORED!".
"Play on the swings." She said without looking up from her cross-stich.
"We already did that!"
"Make a fort under the picnic table."
"We did that!"
"Pick mullberries."
We rolled our eyes and walked out of the room. Apparently mom wasn't good for any ideas.
"I wish we had a pool." We always said that. We were painfully jealous of any kids with pools. There was an older couple who went on vacation for a month every summer, and we used to climb their fence to swim in their pool while they were away- but we got caught the week before, so that was out of the question.
We threw ourselves down under the swings again, our hair laying in the dirt and our feet stretched into the grassy area. My sister started lazily scooping at the dirt with her hand. She suddenly stopped, looked at me, looked at Becky, and ran off to the garage.
Becky and I scampered along behind her, thankfull for a reprive from our boredom.
My sister was in the garage, digging in my moms gardening supplies. She pulled out a little hand shovel, a rakey thing, and some seeds.
She put the seeds back.
Becky got the rakey thing, my sister took the shovel, and once again, I got nothing. It sucked being the youngest one, but if I whined about it my sister would ban me from hanging out with them, so I stayed quiet.
They plunged their garden tools into the bare earth beneath the swings, and I got down and started scraping with my hands (I had to do SOMETHING!).
By the end of the day we had a hole that was about two feet deep.
"Corinne, stand in there." My sister pushed me towards the hole. I got in, the hole went up to my waist.
***
My dad hated when we slept in. We loved to sleep in. Every morning he'd come to our rooms and yell, "It's NOON! HALF THE DAY IS WASTED!! WAKE UP! IT'S CHRISTMAS! YOUR PRESENTS ARE HERE!".
"Arghhhh dad!!!" We'd pull the covers over our heads.
"WAKE UP! ITS NOON!"
"It is not noon! It's 8!"
"ITS NOON!"
"DAD!! MOOOOOM!!! MOM MOM MOM! GET HIM!"
Then mom would make her entrance, "Carl, let them sleep. It's summer."
"Half the day is wasted!"
"Carl, it's summer."
"GET UP!" He'd yank the covers off the bed and turn on the light. We'd get up.
Well, the exception was this particular morning. My sister snuck into my room at 7 and shook me awake. "Put your bathing suit on." she ordered.
***
My sister, Becky and I convened out by the 2 foot hole under the swings. We were all dressed in our frilly bathing suits, hair pulled up in ponytails, garden tools in hand. We dug until 10. The sun had come out and was beating down on us, we were exauhsted.
Becky got the hose out and drug it through the yard. My sister stood by the spigot, waiting to turn the water on. I stood in the hole.
The hole was up to my 4 year old sholders. I saw a frog hop by and I really wanted to go catch it, but I was afraid my sister would yell at me.
Nobody noticed us until late in the afternoon. By the time my dad spotted us we were covered in mud and our ponytails were like little hard whips.
The next summer my dad got us a pool.
***
"We're bored!"
"Go swimming, we got that pool for a reason, you never even use it!"
"We already swam."
"Swim more!"
"There's bugs in the pool."
"Skim them out! Turn the filter on."
We'd go back to the swingset and lay beneath the swings.
User Reviews
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2004-10-20 04:42:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yup fair enough, you are free to sound as stoopid as you want.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2004-10-16 22:52:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Apollo. I prefer DRUG. I dont care about "right" or "correct".
It's all about what I like. Don't you know this by now?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2004-10-16 16:09:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fantastic imagery.
Can't fault it.
Except for the word 'drug' in that context. It is dragged not drug.
Carry on nuggs.
Submitted by JonnyBoy (user info) at 2004-10-16 15:55:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by ThatOneGirl (user info) at 2004-10-16 15:48:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very sweet.
Submitted by ToxicNarcotic (user info) at 2004-10-16 13:17:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2004-10-16 13:11:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You have arisen feelings of relating to waking up early. How dare you make me feel these things.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-10-16 13:08:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
We dug a pool in a creek bed when I was a kid. Pools rock.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-10-16 12:25:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I've had a pool since I was 5. The house we moved into had one, and when we moved out here we built another.
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2004-10-16 12:10:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i wouldn't want to see this girl in a bating suit: http://www.ubersite.com/m/48591
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2004-10-16 12:04:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Oh helen, don't get me excited before work!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-10-16 11:53:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
wa wa!