Use to do clerical work for a chemical company that specialized in pool chemicals way back in the day. They were quite expensive back then I can hardly imagine what they charge now days. I always wanted a pool, been a huge dream of mine, we were lucky when my kids were still young to have a city pool across
the street in the park. People I worked with use to always tease me about swimming in a public
pool....up until their's felt like a bathtub on a ninety degree day, ours was a cold water pool built decades before that I had swam in as a child growing up. Then the state came and made them shut it down said it was no longer in code. With a lot of push from neighbors the city built a new one, it was nice while it lasted. The old pool cost ten cents when I was a child, fifty cents when my kids swam there, after the installation of a new one the price went up to a buck and three for adults so it lost a lot of attendance and they ended up closing it during a budget crisis. I went out and got one of those 18x4 foot ring tube pools and we had a lot of fun with that pool. I loved the challenge of keeping it balanced and going out there every morning and cleaning it out, I'd come home at night, hop on a float and float around in circles looking at the stars in the sky...I think I was so much more content in that small space of a pool then I had ever felt comfortable swimming with all the neighbors.
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I couldn't imagine swimming in a public pool after learning how to clean a pool. Now that I know how things work, I can see how filthy those pools were. Not to mention how overchlorinated they are and how they made me feel after. I can't even tell our pool has chlorine in it, I can swim with my eyes open and don't come out feeling dried out.