I picked up a kiddie pool for L. this summer, the kind that theoretically folds into a 20″-diameter circle. Similar to this one. It popped open very easily: I removed it from its carrier and — Pop! — it instantly expanded into a nice-sized pool for a 2-year-old. Unfortunately, I cannot, for the life of me, get it to magically fold back into its original form. So if any of you are skilled in the area of spring-loaded toys that “fold away quickly and easily,” please come by around the end of August to do this for me (or sooner, if you’d like to offer me pool-folding training).
Because I’m not interested in a sky-high water bill, we’ve only filled the pool a couple times, but L. has certainly enjoyed the water:
What I have enjoyed is this nifty little picture that came with the pool:
It was innocently tucked into the packaging, just sitting right there for responsible parents to find. Which we did.
But now my question is… what does it mean? Let’s pretend we don’t know about water safety, and just go strictly by this elegant little illustration.
How about…
Be sure to keep your eyes on your child at all times, especially if he is lying down in the pool.
or
While child is enjoying this pool (that folds away quickly and easily), the parent should stand over the pool in such a way that will cause said parent’s back to seize up, rendering parent incapable of walking after about 20 minutes of maintaining this recommended stance.
or even
Look out! There are bats in the pool!!
Okay, that last one might be pushing it.
But if nothing else, the handy illustration gave me a little chuckle, which almost makes up for the fact that they’re lying about how easy it is to fold the stinking pool.
I’m chuckling too!
I bought Amanda a little play tent that came in a nice 24 inch flat round case. I am able to fold it nice and flat, and about 36 inches, but I can’t figure out how to get it in that case either.
Yeah, those illustrations amaze me too! That picture is not worth many words at all!
So L. enjoys water….. Has C. changed his mind yet about swimming?
Ha!
Funny stuff there!
Thanks for the early morning laugh!
Too funny! I love how manufacturer’s think they are being so clear.
Too funny! Your problem with the pool actually reminds me of these shade things my aunt had for her car. You were suppose to be able to fold them up real easy to store them under your seat or wherever. My aunt couldn’t figure out how to fold them up so my mom decided to try and watching her try to fold those things up was too funny.
We had the same problem last year with a pool our neighbors handed down to us. Thankfully we couldn’t find all the holes that needed repairing, which saved us having to actually figure out how to put the silly thing back in its box!
I had the first two reactions, too. But I hadn’t even thought about bats. That one made me laugh.
The picture itself was funny enough but your translation really added to it.
At least they didn’t include some weird badly translated instructions about watching the child!
This post really made me laugh!
How about…
“Supervise children carefully or you might have little “floaties” in the poop…er…pool.”
That’s funny!