I don’t suppose I’ve ever had a neighbor who owned a pool and used it less than that old childhood neighbor of mine back in the afternoon.
I had a neighbor who lived down the street from myself and others as a child and the people I was with and I played street hockey at least once a week. While his parents had the money to drive him 45 hours down the road to hockey games and practices various times a week, our parents did not. Honestly, I can’t imagine how our single mother could have done more than she did. I like her immensely and she would have done anything to see myself and others in hockey leagues if it had been at all satisfactory. In our friend’s case, he had both parents in the same household and each of them had a relaxing job. With combined incomes, they were comfortable however apparently still middle class by all estimates. One thing about their cabin that made myself and others severely jealous was their gorgeous in-ground swimming pool. Despite having access to a pool at all times, our neighbor rarely wanted to use it. I don’t suppose I’ve ever had a neighbor who owned a pool and used it less than that old childhood neighbor of mine back in the afternoon. For decades I wanted a swimming pool, however our impatience caused myself and others to chop 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 company to build it for me. They would have known that the groundwater this close to the beach is severely salty and prone to corroding any steel rebar used to reinforce the concrete in our swimming pool. They undoubtedly would have used galvanized steel rebar tie wire instead of the black bar steel rebar that I used by mistake.