Today I got to go hang out by the pool in my apartment complex for the first time this year. Hanging out by the pool on hot summer days is one of the few things I like about living in an apartment, so I try to make the most of it during the summer. Since I work all week (and some weekends, argh), I only make it out to the pool on weekends, and I consider this precious time my time. Consider the "Do Not Disturb" sign officially hung.
When I got to the pool today, there weren't many people around. Exactly what I love! Shortly thereafter, the pool began to get crowded with various people. Now, living in a college town, I unfortunately live near a lot of college students. What I didn't realize was just how many divorced women live here as well.
That's right, I said divorced women. I'm not sure when it happened, but all of a sudden, my apartment complex is full of divorced women and their children. Apparently Saturday is a day the kids spend with dad, so all these now single ladies congregate to the apartment complex pool to gossip.
As I was laying there, listening to my iPod, I watched as the First Wives Club of my apartment complex gathered around the pool. I decided to take off my iPod, and just sort of take in the environment. At one point, I looked over, and was astonished to see that my next door neighbor was there, and seemed to be the ringleader of this group!
It was rather amusing to listen in as these ladies gossiped about their lives, and the lives of others they knew. I was downright astonished to see that as my time by the pool progressed, more of these women would arrive, and they all seemed to know each other. Geez, the things I miss by being at work all day!
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