2002 Story Set
| October 3, 2002 I ran into Albertson's on my lunch hour - ducking and dodging their new "Preferred customer card" campaign (wrong store - I am 35 miles from home) and I was after water and stuff. I carefully shopped for stuff that was NOT marked preferred customer---- I was after snail bait - and saw on the counter----- Pool Stuff! A GIANT ducky - yellow ducky - with shades. He is a chlorine dispenser (for large pools). Well, I am not deterred--- Even if he currently floats lopsided in the spa - I will add clean rocks to his dispenser bottom (a rather large dildo into which you put tablets). And of course, the bitty duck with shades that is a thermometer - can't have too many of those in a 6' spa!!! His attachment is long and thin----- The rest of my duckies are in the spa with the newcomers - getting acquainted. However, oh horrors! The red devil duck is PINK!!! It faded! And he does not float! He has a hole in his bottom. But his black horns remain black and his expression is still, well, devilish. For the hole I need DUCK TAPE!!!! Which, since I am an engineer ------I am sure I have some somewhere! I drained the spa yesterday - but first, after relandscaping the backyard (digging out where the dog had built a giant hollow and matching hill), I sat in the spa for a bit. The smaller glow-in-the-dark duck duckling, also in shades, kept trying to get in my bra. The giant duck with the very large protrusion (10" long) coming off its bottom (which is full of full of water) still needs a few rocks added as it still lists to the left and is busy trying to get somewhere else!!!!! Egad - attacked by a flock of rubber duckies!!!! My friend has supplied useful information regarding the duckies. Seems they are all male ducklings. Of course, in the fluffy yellow down stage, they should not be exhibiting such behavior! Especially when my younger son piped up that they had attacked him as well the last time he was in the spa! Strange ducklings! Of course it could have something to do with the fact that my son sets the jets so the water races around the sides of the pool in a fast circle. Once I moved a few nozzles around, they seemed to have calmed down a bit and were content to merely strangle themselves on the thermometer duckling's cord. |
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