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I Love a Good Laugh

Little Tidal Wave

By: 1sweetloralei
Written on July 11th, 2012
Who doesn't love a good laugh ? This is something funny that happened to me yesterday.  We recently bought one of those pools that pops up as you fill it with water.  It has the capacity to hold about 4 feet of water.  So it isn't that big but nice enough for our kids and for us to sit in to cool off.  Our yard is a bit bumpy and it is difficult finding a smooth area to set it up.  

Yesterday we were in it but it wasn't filled to capacity because it was on uneven ground.  Needless to say, the water was fuller one side than the other.  My husband, daughter and I were in the pool yesterday afternoon.  We were playing a game with our daughter where she had to try to get the ball at the other side of the pool without a shark (hubby and I) getting her.  We probably did this about 10  times before the fuller side of the pool where the top is got pushed down accidentally.   The water started rushing out one side like a little tidal wave.  Hubby and I jumped up quickly.  I asked him to pull the side back up but he jumped out of the pool to save his sneakers from being saturated.  There was this little flood of water in the grass which soaked his socks.  He saved the sneakers though.  

It was just so funny to me at the time.  I was laughing so hard I almost fell over in the pool.  Guess you had to be there:-)
By: 1sweetloralei
Age: 36-40 , Female
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12 responses
  • red90019
    red90019

    haha i love your story

    Sep 26, 2012
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  • seacrets
    seacrets

    Love those moments - a good laugh, one of those when you had to be there to see it are the funniest - and those moments replay in your head and make you laugh whenever you think about it again.

    Jul 17, 2012
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  • kemi8698
    kemi8698

    Hahhaah I laughed my *** of. So funny

    Jul 12, 2012
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  • Jackinsd
    Jackinsd

    Fun summer memories...enjoy them

    Jul 11, 2012
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  • hunkyman
    hunkyman

    funny visual for sure!

    Jul 11, 2012
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  • Experienced321
    Experienced321

    seem like these simple things in life provide the memories cherished the most, and forever...they do for me also

    Jul 11, 2012
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  • nudistguyny
    nudistguyny

    Haa Haa Haa- The neighbors that we do not get along with well brought one of those soft sided pools. The got a load of sand to level out the ground which sloops towards their house.



    Never packed the sand down. Set up the pool and filled it with water. Like yours one side of it had higher water level then the other. They were in it the other day along with a few other people when the same thing happened to them. Only they did not pull up the side. All of the water escaped right towards their house. It was a tidal wave ! A sudden rush of a lot of water at one time. I can just picture how much water got into the house.



    I came home today from work and see that they have the pool back up and full of water. Interesting considering that the water main runs up hill to their house and ends there. Water pressure is just a trickle as it is because they are so much higher then the main supply. I wonder how they managed to fill it so fast.



    My water is feed from another water main coming down from the top of the mountain. I am at the bottom of that main and my pressure is so high that I can't keep a garden hose for more then a few months because it just blows out from the pressure. lol-

    Humm I wonder if I just answered my own question. How did they fill it so fast ?

    Jul 11, 2012
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  • mdevil
    mdevil

    I'm guessing this is one of those soft side pools that you blow up the top ring? So did you lose all the water or is the grass going to grow real good there?? Please buy hubby some flip flops so he can leave those sneakers and socks in the house!!

    Jul 11, 2012
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    • 1sweetloralei
      1sweetloralei

      Yep it is one of those. There was still some water left in the pool. He has shoes like that but couldn't find them yesterday.

      Jul 11, 2012
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