The Incedent

Alright, so we have all done it at least once. Except maybe Kaylinn, or Tessa, or Dave, or Mom, but I know Dad has and that's all that matters.

Thursday, I have a little work to do to finish up the week. Mom told me to hurry up because Dave needed to use the truck. So I'm doing my work and being quick about it and I get to my last stop. My last stop was a pretty crappy full service. So I dive my pool pole in and start scooping out the muck. In the process of doing so, I find myself horizontal ... like:

This guy,








or like:

This guy.











Don't mind the fact that both pictures are soccer pictures and that in this one he misses the ball.

The fact of the matter is: I was horizontal ... above the water, with no place to go but down, to the ground, to get out of the ... whatever, I'm not an ant so I don't go marching. Whatever the case is. I didn't just fall in ... I straight up dove in and everything came with me. I figured if I'm goin in, I'm gunna go in. I don't think I have ever taken a shorter swim ... ever. I thought, "There is no way in h*** that anybody is going to see me in here". I got out of that pool so fast I didn't want anyone to see that I fell in. It's quite ironic, I'm the pool man. I don't do that, not that it doesn't happen, I just don't. What pool man do you know that 'takes a dip' while working? That's what I thought. When I got out, I proceeded to laugh so hard that I'm curtain that me getting out of the pool so fast becomes totally irrelevant. In fact, so hard that I almost fall BACK in.

So to say the least, I finish up the service while listening to my shoes sop at every step. And can I be discreet, heck no because I got a little water trail everywhere I go. What the freak! I jump back in the truck, race home so I don't totally soak the seat with my embarrassment. But do I try and hide it, nope the first thing I do when I walk in the door, "DAVE!!! GUESS WHAT JUST HAPPENED!" following which I watch him laugh just as hard as I did. It was so funny ... until I noticed my phone in my pocket. But who cares ... I got insurance, or so I thought. Suddenly a funny thing wasn't so funny anymore. I didn't expect to throw down two watermelons that day to get a new phone.