Lifeguard Insanity IX

Yes, that's a nine.

Today it was cloudy, in case y'all didn't know, so there were precious few people at the pool. To fill our lack of patrons to watch, the lifeguards all went cwazy. I started by trying to see how many polyatomic ions I could remember. I got stuck on thiocyanate (which I now know to be SCN-) and was still trying to remember it while Danny, the lifeguard rotating behind me, had me switch positions. He asked me what I was muttering about and to make a long story short, we started quizzing each other on random chemistry facts. This comes back later.

So then me and this girl Kelly ended up next to each other (still on separate pools, but there was no one to watch) so we talked. We started with how the shift coordinator has it in for us and this other girl because we three are the closing head guards nearly this entire week. We somehow moved on to random games played with friends and I got some fun ideas. We also saw lightning, but it was too far away for it to affect us.

An hour after Kelly and I had spotted the lightning and had been keeping close tabs on it, Danny noticed it. By this point we had run out of chemistry trivia and had moved on to history. But that's not relevant yet. The point is that every time he would see lightning, he'd do this annoying chirp through his whistle that drove me and Kelly insane. I hit him with my tube (rather harder than I ever have, I must admit) and told him to stop it. I had asked nicely before, but I only have so much patience. He then asked me a string of founding father questions that I couldn't hope to answer. When he told me he only got up to about the Civil War in his history class, I started asking CW questions as well as WWI and WWII questions. Etc.

So in the after hours party, it was so empty that Danny and I stopped waiting till rotating time to quiz each other. We just started yelling across the pool. We got a lot done too. But in the time that we weren't shouting questions or mocking each other for answering incorrectly, he was still chirping! After a half hour of this and several times of whacking him with my shoe, I decided to stop flipping out and start plotting revenge.

After the party we spot-cleaned the locker rooms. This means that we didn't get the hose out and we didn't mop them again. We just got a bucket of water to splosh the dirt and then squeegeed (sp?) it all down the drains. I placed myself in charge of the bucket; I'm a head guard, I can do that sort of thing. Once we were finished and we had exitted the locker room, Danny turned his back and I dumped 2/3 of a bucket of icy water on his head. He was upset, but it was payback and I had Kelly behind me on the fact that he deserved it.

And that was my day. Actually, I went biking earlier in the day and that was great fun. I made it up the Hogi Yogi hill without passing out or walking my bike! Joy to the world, all the boys and girls. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea; joy to you and me!