On day three of summer break I took my kids to the rec center to swim. I felt like I was sitting in a sauna, but that's beside the point. I took the opportunity to not only keep an eye on my kids but to also watch the people around me.
Some moms are super pushy, rude, and don't respect personal space. Especially if I'm sitting in their way. They pretend to be nice but use their kids and their big bags full of crap to subtly push you out of their way until you are forced to pick up your chair and move to another location. Then when you are struggling to get your chair out of the crowd of wet bodies, bags, and other chairs, they give you a dirty look and don't offer to help.
It's ok to order four pizzas and have them delivered to the pool at the rec center. Then when you finish you can half-heartedly stuff the empty boxes into the already full trash can. No wonder I found an ant crawling on my leg.
Most of the moms didn't even watch their kids. I know because there were a few that kept getting yelled at by the lifeguards and I saw who they belonged to. If my kid got yelled at more than once I would do something about it.
Speaking of lifeguards, why didn't any of them yell at the preteen girls who were running all over the deck? I was tempted to yell: "Walk!" to them myself, until I saw one of them slip and fall, then I thought, "serves you right."
And speaking of preteens, I felt sorry for the ugly awkward friend of a more attractive girl. That is until I saw the ugly girl get mad at her attractive friend and yell at her and then stomp off. Then I didn't feel so bad for her, she was bossy and mean--typical.
I did an informal study: there are waaaay more awkwardly built, slightly overweight teen girls than not, and most of them were wearing two piece swimming suits that only exacerbated the situation.
Worst of all there was a miserable, sweaty, pregnant lady scowling at everyone. Oh wait, that was me.
6 comments:
I love your observations:)
I kinda miss those days. I wish I was there with you so we could have talked about this together.
What would I do without your blog? There would be less laughter in my life, that's for sure.
You know this lifeguard would yell at those teen girls!!! That really bugs me when people eat huge meals at the pool and then leave the remains just laying around. Southridge has a huge ant problem and I blame those moms that bring whole meals with them to the pool. Believe me Lysa, I was totally sympathizing with you!
Our pool doesn't open for another week and I although I pretend to be mad (because they are opening late and everyone is in a uproar-so I have to pretend to care) I am secretly glad we have an extra week with no towel laundry, no moms in bikinis flirting with the HS lifeguards, no stupid teens sitting on their picnic table thrones... Hmm, maybe I need to blog about this myself.
Yeah, we went to the pool on Memorial day. It was way crowded and the water was still kind of chilly. I think there were even a few pregnant grouchy ladies there...
Other peoples kids are out of control. We were in the lazy river part and some kids were plowing through. Right as one was about to plow over Sam I grabbed his ankle and pulled him backwards - I was the mean guy who said "watch out for other kids." Maybe I was just a parent saying that, who knows.
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