h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hope you've got a/c in this place Crazy, it's getting close to Texas summer and we all know what that means

*Strips off down to elegant looking swimming shorts decorated with the h2g2 logo and does a bellyflop into the pool*

Yes, there's lots of a/c if needed.....and glad to see you've found the pool....*bombs in*

What you really need here is one of those poolside bars - the type where you don't even have to get out of the water to order your

*points to the west* Over there...
...and there *points to the east*

Very

Bartender, I'd like a Manhattan please.

I've already been for my swim today, but the water seems much warmer here!


*dives in*

Nice double somersault with half twist Lady Scott

And a very fetching swimsuit if I may say so

Thank you.

The dive was an accident... I kinda tripped.

But I have an extensive collection of swimsuits. If you like this one, just wait till you see the others!

I have two swimsuits. Well, I have a Cookie Monster and Big Bird one, but it no longer fits me... I think I also have a yellow one from around the same era...

The "I was under three feet tall" era. Maybe it was two feet. I'm not good at spatial stuff...

Bartender, may I have a Denver!??

What!??

I heard someone order a Manhattan...

Oh!??

Really... Well.... make it up!!!

I'm going for a swim later today!

Oh yeah!??

I'm going... back to w*rk today... In forty minutes, even...

I might go for a swim...only thing is...it means skimming the pool....which hasn't been skimmed in quite a while...

You have your *own* pool?!


*packs up all her swimsuits and heads to Texas*


You will pick me up at the airport, won't you?

We have a pool here at the apartment complex too Lady Scott

I've never once use it in three and a half years

Why ever not?!


The one time we lived at an apartment complex with a pool, I spent the summer swimming. I spent all afternoon at the pool, swimming every day, and ended up with a *very* dark tan.


That was back before kids though, when I didn't have so much stuff to do in the house... somehow our place stayed more organized and clean than it does now.

I don't have a cozzy

Actually, although I've never gotten in the water, I've used the deck several times. I stay pretty clear of it from May to August though cos it's filled with screaming kids, off school for the summer holidays.

Ah, I see.... If there had been a lot of kids in that apartment complex all those years ago, I'd have likely stayed clear of it too. But as it was, there were maybe half a dozen regulars at that pool every day, all adults.

There are more kids who show up at the pool I go to now. That in itself wouldn't be such a problem if their parents would actually *supervise* them, but so many parents seem to think their only responsiblity when they take their kids to the pool is to just sit there and do nothing.

At least that's the way it is at the indoor pool, I don't know yet how it'll be at the outdoor pool, because most people aren't crazy enough to get in such a cold pool, and they're still taking their kids to the indoor pool instead. Also, school isn't out yet - another week or two and I should know how it'll be kid-wise.

Screaming kids.... sheesssshhh...

I'm sure you hear plenty of them at Walmart.

It's not so much the screaming I mind as the total lack of regard for other human beings. After they jump right on you, the worst ones either don't look around to see what that was that they hit, or else they give you a dirty look as if it was incredibly rude of you to have been swimming where they just happened to want to jump at that moment.