Document Type
Description Essay
Publication Date
1993
Excerpt
I remember, during the summers of my youth, playing in the sun at Ridgeland Common Pool. My next door neighbors and I loved to play "Marco Polo" and under-water tea party. I would occasionally look up at the bronzed teen-aged lifeguards twirling their silver whistles and wonder what they were thinking about. They looked so confident and cool, and everyone at the pool had to do what they said, even my mom and dad. I wanted to be like that and I couldn't wait until I would be that age. When I was at home playing in my baby pool, my friends and I would always play "lifeguard" and strut around shouting at each other to walk on the deck and to stop splashing. Sometimes we would even make each other do the deadman's float so someone would have to jump in and make a heroic rescue.
Recommended Citation
Grana, Emily, "Misconceptions of Lifeguarding (1993)" (1993). The Valpo Core Reader. 316.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/316