fky deni

its raining again. and its freezing down in "the dungeon" where i work. ive got a sweatshirt and im still freezing. i got my new license!! its a front picture now :) (here in MD you get a profile "mug shot" type of deal till you are legal, then you have to get a new license that is a normal picture)

yesterday was the relay carnival @ jc. what a mess. first the kids found something we think was a hairless squirrel in the skimmers. all i know is that it had a face and legs. *shrudder* ugh. good thing kevin was there. yay for first year guards. all the kids from some swim team had red paint all over themselves and of course had to touch EVERYTHING white in the bathrooms. then when i was going through cleaning up after them i saw again this year someone left a "present" for us. im not really one for unclogging nasty stuff from toilets when these people should know better. so i told the swim team mother debbie that i had to close it cause i couldn't unclog it. she sent a guy in there to get it for me. on a side note, those femi-nazis dont know what theyre missing. im all for being a helpless female. guys can unclog toilets and do trash. ill clean and cook. i've never touched a lawn mower and i intend to keep it that way. (and for matt i can clean, i just choose not to haha)

anyway, by the time that was cleared up, someone puked on the deck. lucious kevin and i decided after that one we needed a break. so we went to bennigans. i had a medori sour. def needed it. and i still have 1/2 my sandwich for lunch today :)

we got back just as the last event finished. i came back to see kids climbing up on the lifeguard chairs and a ton of kids swimming in the pools. sigh. after we cleaned up, which i must give the swim team props cause they really did do a great job putting everything back and helping. then we swam for a bit - "lifeguard drills" haha. it was nice. i also discovered that the pool lights, they're nmot conencted to anything. we tried EVERYTHING to put them on and it def didnt work.


i want to list a few things i think should be ovbious when (eventually) you bring kids to the pool
* watch them. i am not a baby sitter. i am a lifeguard. i am there to save lives when they are in danger. your job as a parent/guardian is to keep them from encountering danger
* by watch them, i dont mean come to the pool and then read/talk on your cell phone while they swim. if your kid can't swim you need to be in the water with them, or at the very absolute least sitting on the edge ready to jump in. you know your child better and when they are in distress a lot sooner than i do.
* if i think i hear thunder, dont argue with me. if it *was* a plane, we will re-open in 20 minutes. is 20 minutes of your kid swimming really worth risking your child's life in case it is thunder?
* floaties/water wings/those stupid suits with foam crap in them are dangerous. they are NOT a subsitute for you watching your kids. think about it: how do you get the water wings to "slip on"?? wet them? and then you put them in water again and expect them to stay indefinately? and those floaties and suits can eaasily over turn and next thing you know your kid has its head underwater and its feet above the water.
* ditto for noodles. they are slippery for a child and when they slip off them, which happens ALL THE TIME they sink like rocks.
* just because you dont have to clean the bathrooms doesnt mean they magically get cleaned. they are clean because the lifeguards, instead of tending to more important matters (like being on deck as an extra pair of eyes on your kid) they are cleaning. the pool can be closed because of clogged toilets. so if you flush your sanitary stuff down there and clogg all the toilets, we have to close.
* ditto for trash on the deck
* dont chew gum. thats asking to choke.
* set an example for your kids! follow the rules. they are there for a reason.
* no eating or smoking while you are in the pool! thats just gross.
* let your kid digest after eating. when your kid pukes we close the pool
* on that note, water diapers AND those rubber pants are required here. if fecal matter gets in the pool it MUST be closed for at least 8 hours (1 turnover cycle)
* band-aids off! they do fall off in the water, and they are nasty to clean up. notto mention the risk of of us getting sick. that aside, they can really mess up the system and cause the fintering system (read: the stuff you dont see that keeps the pool clean) to possibly break. which in turn, again, leads to the pool closing down


a very long post. dedicated to gretch cause i know how much you like to have my long ramblings when im not online :)

posted by denise @ 11:12 AM