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My Dad Saw a Naked Lady Streaking Through the Yard
A sight to behold
I was sneaky for a ten-year-old. Well, maybe not sneaky, but definitely curious. I liked getting into everything — including my grumpy old neighbours above-ground pool.
The grumpy old neighbours in question were actually our landlords, and they lived on the property. We rented a mobile home that sat on a section of their acreage, and they lived a stone’s throw away.
They didn’t like us much.
Back then, my pops was always yelling about one thing or another and I’m not gonna lie, it turned a good many people away from friendship with the ol’ boy.
Mom advised my brother and me to steer clear of the landlords. Dad had put a bad taste in their mouths with all his ranting and raving, which meant, like always, we’d have to pay the price.
The entire family found ourselves in the bad books of our landlords due to Dad’s hot head.
The problem is that “steering clear” has never been my style.
So one sunny afternoon, I decided to sneak a dip in the grumpy old landlord’s swimming pool.
I don’t know why my undeveloped brain thought I’d be able to pull off a surreptitious soak in the broad daylight of high noon, but swimmers gonna swim.
