The Killer and pools that can fit in your backseat....
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Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It’s officially pool weather. Even if you don’t have a pool. Nobody had pools back in the day. Pools were the for the houses on the hill. Eventually we all tried one of those put-together pools that you could get at Sugerman’s, but they were so flimsy that they’d inevitably collapse when the neighborhood fat kid tried to climb into one of ‘em. You quickly learned that if a pool can fit in the back of your car, it’s not REALLY a pool. These tin cans have been replaced today with the Wal-Mart blow up pools, which can be capsized by a mere pin-prick, which they’ll tell you can be patched with a “kit” that is included, but this is merely their way of laughing at you from Arkansas. You can’t fix what you can’t find. And if every new thing you bought contained a “kit” to put it back together when you inevitably broke it, you might question whether you were buying the right stuff. If your neighbor buys one of these things on a Friday, by Sunday night it’s probably already in front of the house with the trash cans.
The Killer and pools that can fit in your backseat....
The Killer and pools that can fit in your…
The Killer and pools that can fit in your backseat....
Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It’s officially pool weather. Even if you don’t have a pool. Nobody had pools back in the day. Pools were the for the houses on the hill. Eventually we all tried one of those put-together pools that you could get at Sugerman’s, but they were so flimsy that they’d inevitably collapse when the neighborhood fat kid tried to climb into one of ‘em. You quickly learned that if a pool can fit in the back of your car, it’s not REALLY a pool. These tin cans have been replaced today with the Wal-Mart blow up pools, which can be capsized by a mere pin-prick, which they’ll tell you can be patched with a “kit” that is included, but this is merely their way of laughing at you from Arkansas. You can’t fix what you can’t find. And if every new thing you bought contained a “kit” to put it back together when you inevitably broke it, you might question whether you were buying the right stuff. If your neighbor buys one of these things on a Friday, by Sunday night it’s probably already in front of the house with the trash cans.