Sprained Ankle and Dry Clothes

This is true, I couldn't make this up. I really couldn't...

A co-worker of mine was guarding a reservation. Less people but they tend to be entitled a-holes. She was doing her job and saw a 4 year old drowning. (keep in mind, the parent should be within an arms length.) She jumps in saves the 4 year old. Sprains her ankle in the process. Receives no thanks. In fact the mom says " Oh I saw that, I was going to get in, but I didn't want to get my clothes wet."

Payments, Parents and Pain

Well it has been a while since I have posted and so I hope that this one will be long enough for the readers I have. (read two of my friends who poke me if I haven't written for a while!) My first point of contention with pool life stems from a recent promotion. You are looking at a brand new Senior Guard In Training! Woo! In being a Senior Guard, I need to completely understand the weird computer program we use to input money. Which honestly I am convinced the code for which was banged out in Morse code by a blind, mute, and deaf woodsman with an axe who didn't know Morse code. That being said I am slowly starting to understand the program, and am learning to close the register. So I was working the register and was about to shut the window and go rotate with the other two lifeguards. So I shut the window, this guy comes up and like an idiot I open the window. He pays for lap swim ($5.50) with $2.00 in $1.00 bills, 50 cents in quarters, and wait for it... $3.00 in nickles! Freaking Nickles! So understandably I was late to my rotation, but still.. nickles? Then I got to count them again when I closed the cash register. I was about ready to look him up and throw them at him and say "Give me real money!"

Next parents. Parents we have a simple rule, if your child is under 6 you need to be in the water an arms length away. That does not mean sitting on the side talking to your friend. That means actively parenting. Which also doesn't seem to happen in lessons. There is this mom who brings her 2 year old and her 4 year old. The 4 year old has private lessons, the 2 year old runs amok while the mom laughs. The nanny is trying to reign in the kid but is totally unsuccessful. The last experience I had was the mom who was letting her kid run around crazily. Only reigning him in after I told him and her three times what rule he was breaking. This kid was dragging our trash cans around, tripping and falling in them. Playing with our brand new and extremely expensive handicapped lift. This kid must have been 3 and she was letting him run around our 13ft deep pool. The kid could not swim. You think as a parent you would be concerned. Maybe she wanted him to drown, then she could sue us and wouldn't have this nutso kid. Her other two kids were.

My last rant is the subject of pain. Some how in the course of my work, rock climbing, yoga, being sick and tai chi... I have screwed up my back. I have no idea how! I know it is screwed up cause it hurt to sit on the Lifeguarding chair. So any suggestions for how to proceed would be appreciated! I am going to try a massage tomorrow. Which is out of my price range.. but worth it!