The Backflopper, Perkoff. wrote:
Tommy Joe wrote:
Backflopping Into My Pool wrote:
Hotel pools suck. If I won the lotto I’d just by my high school. I’d drive my bike through the hallways and swim in the olympic sized pool that has not one but two diving boards, with a wheel on the side to adjust the bounciness.
Agreed. But there are exceptions. The Roosevelt Hotel pool in Hollywood was one of my favorite summer spots. 25 yards long, crystal clear water, divingboard, not much of a crowd. But of course maybe it’s not the same now. I used to walk through the lobby wearing tee shirt and shorts with a towel around my neck. Beneath the shorts were the speedos I used for swimming and lying in the sun.
Now, here’s something I did one time at that hotel of which I am proud. Of course I was not a paid guest. Occasionally a gung ho security guard would come out and give everybody the once-over. I was in my late 20s at the time. One day a group of young kids, early teens, came over the wall and started jumping into the pool, two or three at a time on the diving board, using loud curse words, splashing people, etc. I knew it wouldn’t be long before the guard would arrive to order them out. But I was mainly worried that the guard might then become gung-ho and starting checking everybody out, including me. …. So I got on one of the many pool-side phones and called the desk myself. "There’s a bunch of young kids that don’t belong here", I said, "and they’re making a racket. I want them out of here NOW." So now I knew the guard would be coming out, so I jumped in the pool and began swimming laps, watching through my strokes as he appeared and continuing until he had booted the punks out and gone back to the lobby where he belonged. I thought that was funny, the way I told them to get the punks out of my way even though I myself did not belong there. If they hadn’t of made such a racket I wouldn’t have said a thing.
Tommy Joe