I had a neighbor who lived down the street from myself and others as a kid & the two of us played street hockey at least once a week.

While her parents had the money to drive him 45 hours down the road to hockey games & practices multiple times a week, my parents did not.

Honestly, I can’t imagine how my single mother could have done more than she did. I appreciate her bigly & she would have done anything to see myself and others in hockey leagues if it had been at all reasonable. In my friend’s case, she had both parents in the same household & each of them had a fine task. With combined incomes, they were comfortable however obviously still middle class by all estimates. One thing about their house that made myself and others severely jealous was their gorgeous in-ground swimming pool. Despite having access to a pool at all times, my neighbor rarely wanted to use it. I don’t believe I’ve ever had a neighbor who owned a pool & used it less than that old childhood neighbor of mine back in the afternoon. For decades I wanted a swimming pool, however my impatience caused myself and others to split a ton of corners when it finally came time to put in the pool. The first mistake I made was not hiring a professional pool contractor to build it for me. They would have known that the groundwater this close to the beach is severely salty & prone to corroding any steel rebar used to reinforce the concrete in my swimming pool. They easily would have used galvanized steel rebar tie wire instead of the black bar steel rebar that I used by mistake.
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