Today, after working 9 hours, I decided I would like to go to the pool. Lay out, relax a little, lounge in the pool,maybe do some laps, test out my new bathing suit.

I get suited up, spray on the sun block, 30 thank you, put my chair cover, towel, book and sunglasses in my bag, baseball cap on, grab the keys and out I go. It’s such a long walk, all 100 yards after I get downstairs…

I can see one person at the pool through the fence, I get to the gate and there is a big chain around the gate “Pool Closed”, what? I go around to the other gate, thinking maybe someone forgot to unchain the first one, nope, big chain and pool closed sign. I saw someone in there, how did they get in?

I went into the front office to ask what was going on and apparently there have been issues..human issues. People drinking in the pool, even the tiniest bit of alcohol can do damage, it takes a lot of chemicals to clean that up, then there was the person who let their dog into the pool, come on people, really?

So now, it’s going to be a few days while the chemicals do their magic and we can get into the pool again. Pook.

The woman I talked to was very nice and apologetic, I could still sit in there and soak up some rays, thanks, but I prefer to have a place to cool off once I get too hot. I asked if there was a notice that went out, she said there hadn’t been, they could only send a few emails per month, based on the service they were using for mass emails, ok…well, later this evening, we got an email about it, part of our weekly “community email”. Would have been nice to receive it a little earlier.

Oh well, back to the apartment I went and used my time wisely. I fixed my bathing suit, I sewed the straps to the back, so it was now a tank instead of a tie at the neck, which make me feel like I’m being choked.

Sometimes, people confuse, irritate and sadden me. C’mon people, use that thing between your ears and some common sense most of us have…didn’t you learn anything from kindergarten? One person can spoil it for the rest of us!