BillD16 (Texas)
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“It will eat your soul” - a former pool cmte chair
So we’re being inundated by pool trespassers here at Rejoov of Austin. Most go over the fence; some have figured out how to jimmy the pushbar on the gate; at least one managed to duplicate someone else’s key fob. I’ve been making small photomontages of each incident - if I can figure out a way to share them, I will. I think I’ve mentioned the new ‘daywalkers’ that invade the pool during operating hours? And they bring their dogs and cigarettes and God-knows-what with them and lay waste to the restrooms.
But I do have a specific rant: last night I was up at the pool, talking to the LGs and our pool guy Bert. A resident (who is also renting, for what it’s worth) walked up and told Bert to get the hose and put more water in the wading pool. Bert, who is a good fellow with many years of experience, is also very ‘customer friendly’ by nature, so he’s like “uh, okay” and I’m standing there - there’s a pause, did I really just hear that / see that? And I told the resident “You don’t tell Bert what to do. You know nothing about pools. Stop ordering people around!” Or words to that effect; I was caught by surprise and not at my most eloquent. The resident got on her high horse and started giving me shit “don’t talk to me like that!” and “you think you’re a god!” (that’s an exact quote) and “you don’t know anything about me” (true, and I’d like to know even less).
The resident - who has the nickname “church lady” although I personally believe she may actually be a practicing witch actively working for the other side - is sorta right: I’m a very small, puny, insignificant god. But I have my Chosen People, and Thou Shalt Not Push Them Around.
Argh. I’m very pissed off. I swore I would never let anything get to me at such a personal level that I would even begin to think about stuff like cutting a person’s pool access for the “crime” of ticking me off. And as I write this, I resolve that I won’t do so here. But this is the closest I’ve come.
The LGs are gone after Tuesday (local schools do an extended Labor Day holiday) and I don’t know what the pool situation will be like after that. It could be open, unmonitored and “swim at your own risk” until the end of October. LGs tend to discourage trespassers. When they’re gone, I think it’ll be like this.
Bill
So we’re being inundated by pool trespassers here at Rejoov of Austin. Most go over the fence; some have figured out how to jimmy the pushbar on the gate; at least one managed to duplicate someone else’s key fob. I’ve been making small photomontages of each incident - if I can figure out a way to share them, I will. I think I’ve mentioned the new ‘daywalkers’ that invade the pool during operating hours? And they bring their dogs and cigarettes and God-knows-what with them and lay waste to the restrooms.
But I do have a specific rant: last night I was up at the pool, talking to the LGs and our pool guy Bert. A resident (who is also renting, for what it’s worth) walked up and told Bert to get the hose and put more water in the wading pool. Bert, who is a good fellow with many years of experience, is also very ‘customer friendly’ by nature, so he’s like “uh, okay” and I’m standing there - there’s a pause, did I really just hear that / see that? And I told the resident “You don’t tell Bert what to do. You know nothing about pools. Stop ordering people around!” Or words to that effect; I was caught by surprise and not at my most eloquent. The resident got on her high horse and started giving me shit “don’t talk to me like that!” and “you think you’re a god!” (that’s an exact quote) and “you don’t know anything about me” (true, and I’d like to know even less).
The resident - who has the nickname “church lady” although I personally believe she may actually be a practicing witch actively working for the other side - is sorta right: I’m a very small, puny, insignificant god. But I have my Chosen People, and Thou Shalt Not Push Them Around.
Argh. I’m very pissed off. I swore I would never let anything get to me at such a personal level that I would even begin to think about stuff like cutting a person’s pool access for the “crime” of ticking me off. And as I write this, I resolve that I won’t do so here. But this is the closest I’ve come.
The LGs are gone after Tuesday (local schools do an extended Labor Day holiday) and I don’t know what the pool situation will be like after that. It could be open, unmonitored and “swim at your own risk” until the end of October. LGs tend to discourage trespassers. When they’re gone, I think it’ll be like this.
Bill
HOA Board ex-President
Austin, Texas USA
“You can’t put too much water in a nuclear reactor”
Austin, Texas USA
“You can’t put too much water in a nuclear reactor”
