Walling Out
I tried being a pool rat only once in my adult life. It lasted five days at the end of a summer season. Every day, when I drove my rig past the city pool, I stared at the sun bouncing off that water. Looked like it could just strip a guy clean of everything. I started bringing my suit with me in the truck, and when I drove through one morning I parked the truck in an abandoned parking lot across the way and went in. And then the next and the next until it was suddenly the end of the season. That fall they built a wall around the pool to replace the chain-link fence there before, and, I never went again...