spoken for

Went to the community center this afternoon to go swimming. Took Elijah and Sarah and my friend T and her boy came down as well. In all, we were there about two hours and had a great time. I even rode the slide this time. All three of us older ones did, it was really fun! Thank goodness Elijah didn’t want to slide, he’s too short: you have to be 48 inches tall.

Anyway, halfway through, I got out and got my camera to take a few pictures of the kids. I took the three you see above and then was going to take a photo of Sarah as she came down the slide. I’m standing there, in the far end of the kiddie area which starts with a depth of 0’0″ and I’m standing in water that’s four inches deep at most… waiting.

The lifeguard changes and an 18-year-old blonde chippie starts yelling at me from across the kiddie area. I can’t hear her but she doesn’t come any closer. I move a bit closer and finally hear what she’s saying: “no cameras in the water… The camera has to stay out of the water.”

“Uh, yeah,” I tell her, “it’s not in the water, if it was, it would get ruined.” lmao

All the while she’s yelling at me, before I moved closer, I’d moved out of the water completely. I take my picture… didn’t come out, by the way, as I snapped too late. I put the camera back and go back in the water where my friend is.

She’d been reading the rules board since I’d been yelled at… nothing on it at all about cameras or electronic devices or anything. So how am I supposed to know what the rules are, about those kinds of things, if they’re not posted?

But what we can’t figure out is why all the hoopla? What’s the big deal? I mean, c’mon!

This just reminded me of the time we went to the St. Louis Art Museum, or what about the time I was at the library a couple of weeks ago, lol… But you know, even when I’m not doing anything wrong and someone yells at me I always feel like I’m on their radar after that…