How About those Late Night Swims

June 29, 2006

Current mood:exhausted

Not much beats a late night swim...right? Picture yourself just sitting in a chair watching a rerun of Friends, relaxing a bit and winding down to get ready for bed. Now you get this phone call from your neighbor in a dead panic.
"Can you go under the water when you swim?!"
"Uh....yeah....why?"
"I need your help...please....I cannot go under the water to the bottom."
Something about a leak somewhere in the convo...but you couldn't make it all out between all the "Oh My God" being thrown in.
You throw your suit on, grab a t-shirt and flops and hit the door. Once you get there, you see your neighbor standing at the side of her pool.
"I have a leak and it keeps getting bigger. I just can't go under the water and I don't know what to do."
By the look of the water coming out, it seems the hole is around the size of a dime. Your neighbor prepares the patch while you shuck your shirt and climb in. You swim over to the right side and try to feel for the hole with your toe...not happening. You dive under and run your hand along the bottom (yeah...just HAD to be at the very freaking bottom). You finally find the hole after coming up for breath a couple of times. It is much easier to find now since it has become the size of a half dollar. You found the hole, but just how are you going to patch it while holding your breath and unable to see....it is a bit dark and you have already took your contacts out. While you are trying to figure out just what the hell you are going to do, the hole decides that it needs to be a bit bigger...grapefruit sounds good. The water, now spurting up from the ground and falling back down, makes a really pretty waterfall. You realize there is no way in hell you are going to be able to do one dang thing to help this situation. Your neighbor remembers that another neighbor used to work on pools, but worries it is too late to go over there. You advise her that she really doesn't have any other option. He does his best MacGyver moves but nothing is going to stop the flow of water. The liner now now has a 3 foot gap at the seam. What took 3 complete days to put in, took less than 45 minutes to completely empty. On the plus side, your neighbors will not have to water their lawns for a week.
Oh...and this is the same neighbor who "gave" me her trampoline during the windstorm in March. Lets just hope that we don't have any strong winds for the next few days or I might end up with a pool in the yard too, just hopefully it won't go through the window too. We did have to laugh...it was just too crazy not to. Now I am going to go jump in the shower. Yup...nothing beats a late night swim.