My parents wanted a house first and a backyard second. When they found out their backyard consisted mainly of water, they surely must have had second thoughts about the house.

But buy it they did, and the pool came with it.

For all you families out there thinking that having a pool is great fun, it isn’t.

Having a pool means cleaning the pool and maintaining the pool and pouring various chemicals into the pool just so your blonde aunts and uncles can climb out of it and curse you out for ruining their coiffures.

Then, of course, you have to use it.

I mean, if you’ve spent all this time making it swimmable, you have to do at least a couple of laps.

This is generally made more difficult by the fact that an outside pool is as cold as ice. Possibly colder. I don’t know what liquid nitrog

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