Joyanna Adams

Where’s the Pool!?

Nobody Knows…

Newsflash: I love to swim. I mean, I love the water. I love pools, rivers, oceans, and if I can’t get any of those, I jump in my hot tub. I don’t know where I got this love from. Was my mother drinking a lot of water and was I swimming in her womb? I’d ask her, but she’s dead.

Maybe it’s because I grew up in Naples, Florida. My grandmother lived 4 blocks from the ocean. Oh, that was the beginning of my love of swimming….Naples, Fl is famous for it’s white sandy beaches. Run down to the ocean, step over the jellyfish, flush out the stingrays with your feet, which hide IN the sand, and get out deep enough to put on your mask and make faces at the sheepheads. At five, it was heaven.

They would come right up to your mask..and.look at you., as if to say, “Who are YOU?” I loved it. I would puff out my cheeks like I had gills, and communicate in real Sheephead fashion. I connected with fish.

Too bad that connection did NOT give me the power to connect with humans, but that’s another blog.

Once in a while, dad took us to the country club pool. Dad had been seabee in the war. Man, could he swim, and dive, and he had the BEST smile. He would smile big before he dived off the diving board. He was big ham when he dived, but full of grace. He taught both my brother and I in one afternoon.

ALL kids should learn how to swim. That’s my Nobody Opinion…Anyway…

So yeah…I love to swim. Or just float in the water. I don’t care. When I was a teenager and we moved from Naples to St. Louis when I was 17, our local neigborhood pool was free. And it stayed opon all summer until 9pm. My older brother and I spent all day at the pool during the summer. He was only 14, but he told all the girls he was Elvis’s cousin. I kept gettng asked. “Is it true your brother is Elvis’s cousin?”

He was the first Ferris Bueller. I think whoever wrote that movie knew my brother.

Yes, I could write a book on pick up lines he used at that pool…but…I must get to the point:

Yesterday, I WANTED to swim. Why? Because THIS week, St. Louis, MO, was going to have 100 degree weather the WHOLE WEEK! To me that was heaven. Lay out in the sun, get hot, then jump in a nice cool pool. Now THAT’s living.

So I packed up, went to the local pool, excited…wow…this will be wonderful! Remember it’s the middle of August. All July here, was cold and rainy.

I think the Earth titled a bit. They make sure you don’t know about that stuff. But here was July weather in August.

It was closed. WHAT! Oh. Right. Kids go back to school now …and why is that? Who decided sitting in a hot school room instead of having fun at the pool was good for them? Teachers’ Union?

Clearly, I was NOT going to be detered. So I drove another 20 minutes to the NEXT local pool which had been open last year at this time.

WHAT? CLOSED? What? WHY?

Here’s the deal. When your MY age, you wonder how much has Improved…older people NEED to swim. So many of us have had knee surgeries from wearing out our bodies, that only swimming in the water can keep the pain down, AND help heal. It keeps the hearts pumping, the muscles in tact, but the fact is: The new state mantra: You are old. Nobody wants to work anymore, and the teachers need the kids back for that extra pay check.

You, old person…should die. Or pay 6 months of your SS to join a local indoor pool. (Unless you have Essence. Seniors get in free)

I hate this NWORLD order where the old must remain in pain, full of meds, and die early. (Which is happening) I know Elon Musk is worried about the fact that the populations are not replacing themselves, but is that the old people’s fault?

Elon has a mother. She is beautiful. Would he be upset if she couldn’t swim?

Uh..well..I’m sure Maye does NOT have that problem. (That’s her..isn’t she beautiful?) He’s right about the population…that’s another blog,

BUT REALLY? Why not hire some young illegals to be life guards? We could shout “HELP” in Spanish when we are drowning.

! Ayudame!!!

And by way, very seldom do old people drown in pools. They bascially just stand and gossip.

I’m just saying.

Old people drown in the ocean, going after their false teeth which fell while the boat was racing along and they were throwing up over the side.

Which is why I never liked going out on ocean fishing rides.

It’s boring. You can’t get in the water. You have to sit there and watch people fish.

This MUST be just another conspiracy to keep the old in pain, and unhappy.

I wasted a WHOLE DAY yesterday, searching for a pool. I might as well have been searching for Nancy Pelosi’s brain.

Yeah…some progress.

They should have FREE swimming for ALL old people all summer, as long as it stays hot.

Nobody Wonders: Maybe that’s why all the old people move BACK to Florida.

They…can ….swim…in their expensive condo’s. At least, get old and wrinkled and die of skin cancer.

Tell me, am I the ONLY fool who thinks about this?

Yeah. Nobody’s Perfect.

August 27, 2024 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Uncategorized | Leave a comment