Allan is a fellow photographer and lifeguard. My camera is better than his.

“Do you realize that you don’t have soap in the soap dispenser?”

“Yes. I realize that.”

“Do you ever have soap in the soap dispenser? Because everytime I’ve been here, there hasn’t been any soap.”

“No, we don’t have soap very often.”

“That is extremely unsanitary!”

“You don’t even want to know what else is unsanitary around this pool. Soap is an extremely minor unsanitary issue.”

“Well because it is so minor, maybe you should do something about it.”

“I’m not allowed to. We get our soap supplied from Waxie Toiletry Supply Company, as does every other park facility in the city. The City has a contract with Waxie. We would be violating our contract if we got soap from someone other than Waxie.”

“Well,”

“Welcome to bureaucracy. We are not a democracy, we are not a republic. We are a bureaucracy. I hear Finland has a pretty good socialism set-up, and Iraq is pushing for anarchy. I would move there if I were you.”

“Well,”

“If you would like to clean your hands off, I would recommend dipping them in the pool. Chlorine kills most germs, most of the time. If you’re lucky, there will be chlorine in the pool today. Have a nice evening.”

The Beatles - A Day In The Life (live)

Summer days are full of cloud watching.

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This is a letter to Jeremy. Jeremy is a lifeguard that I worked with last summer. This summer he joined the Marines and is in bootcamp in San Diego right now. It’s horrible, really. I don’t know why he didn’t become a firefighter like he said he wanted to.

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