DELPHINE MEMORIAL POOL

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POOL RULES

1. No running on the deck. This is the one you break most and it's the one that splits your chin open on the concrete. You know who you are, Deaver boys.
2. No glass past the gate. Ever. One broke pop bottle and I close the whole pool an hour to sweep the bottom by hand. Cans and paper cups only.
3. Shower BEFORE you get in, not after. You rinse the sunscreen and the dog and the ballfield off out THERE so my filter doesn't eat it.
4. Diving board is ONE at a time. Board's clear, water's clear, then you go. Nobody bounces while somebody's still swimming out.
5. No cannonballs off the board onto your sister. Or your brother, or a stranger, or anybody. Yes I mean you specifically.
6. Deep end is swim-test only. You swim the width and back for a guard and tread thirty seconds. Passed this week, see below.
7. No diving in the shallow end. It is three-and-a-half feet. That is your knee. Head goes on the concrete. No.
8. Pool clears on the FIRST clap of thunder. Everybody out and under the pavilion. We're back in thirty minutes after the last one, not one minute sooner, so don't ask.
9. Snack bar takes exact change until the roll of nickels turns up. It's coming Thursday. Bring your dimes.
10. Band-aids come off before you get in. Leave them on the deck by your towel, not floating in my lane like a little brown fish. Ick.
11. No dogs past the gate, no exceptions. Tie 'em to the fence and they'll live. Except Biscuit. — R.
12. Two pips of the whistle means everybody under sixteen out of the water. Sit on the deck, count your fingers, you're back in shortly. That's adult swim and it is not optional.

DEEP-END TEST — PASSED THIS WEEK

Guards signed off on these swimmers and they may use the deep end without one of us hollering:
Marcy Alvarado · the older Deaver boy (Kurt, NOT Denny) · Priscilla Boone · Tam Nguyen · little Roy Pflug (finally!) · Deb Castellano.
Rest of you keep at it. I'd rather sign you off next week than fish you out this one.