ORIGINAL: poodlebrain
While waiting to go on active duty after graduating from college, I worked at a Leslie's pool store. What I learned in those few months was to never own a home with a pool. And the lessons I learned did not include any about female family members being satisfied, or dissatisfied, with how pool service technicians manipulate their hoses or poles.
Leslies sucks!! Cactus Pool Supply is the way to go in the valley!! Leslie's muscled out a Cactus competitor that I was working with. And they just did it to be dicks because this area of the valley cannot support a Leslie's pool store. So they simply jacked their prices up and are significantly more expensive on almost every thing.
And yes, owning a pool is like owning a yacht. They are expensive and require a lot of maintenance for simply looking good most of the time. I wouldnt own a pool unless it came with a house I really liked.
And yes, yes... Being a pool service person is nothing like being the Cabana boy in the movies. Mostly overweight housewives with noisy kids...