From my ongoing Readers’ Digest “Adventures in Suburbia” series.
While swimming with my kids at the public pool yesterday, I found a small toy flying saucer on the ledge. I was looking at it when a very young boy came up and said with some awe,
"Excuse me Sir, where'd you get that?"
Flattered by his good manners, I explained and then said "You want it? Here you go." He took it and left. About a minute later a second boy swam up to the same spot on ledge and wailed, "Where is IT - WHERE???" | plunged underwater and swam many yards away to drown out his sobs and dissociate myself from any culpability. The silence of the underwater world was soothing.
I still feel kind of like a rat, but stuff left around the public pool becomes communal property - just ask the beach ball.
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