Posted on 07/17/2021 6:50:48 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Joshua Vish, at age 36, is the oldest lifeguard at the Dormont Pool. The job pays $15 an hour and is a dream come true, he said. Maybe even a life-saver.
Wanted: whistleblowers. “It feels very much like, ‘Finally!’ ” Mr. Vish said of his new work.
Friends told Mr. Vish about the openings, and he dove right in. He’d been jobless, and his fiancée had just broken up with him after nine years together. Previously, he had worked as a barista, personal trainer and prep cook. “It’s like I got held back two decades, and now I’m starting all over again,” He also lost the car in his breakup, so he walked to work until he got a 1997 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.
To get the job, Mr. Vish had to take a two-day lifeguard training course, then pass a three-part test: swim 200 yards, tread water without using his hands for two minutes and swim to a depth of 13 feet to retrieve a 10-pound brick. “Here I am with all these collegiate swimmers,” Mr. Vish said. “I barely passed. I had to give it my everything.” Some of the young lifeguards at the pool call him “Viking” because of his scraggly brown beard.
Mr. Rubin runs a tight ship. He forbids whistle twirling and the staccato whistle blasts known as chirping. Mr. Vish plans to work locally as a lifeguard again next summer. A friend recently told him an ice rink is hiring Zamboni drivers for the fall and winter.
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“Well, son, if ye ever work up some gumption, ye might consider running for public office. We’ve had two Presidents that were lifeguards an’ ah kint say it iver held ‘em back.”
When I was a pup, this was a dream job. Dress in next to nothing, sit on a high perch and look at babes in bikinis all day. Once in awhile you’d blow your whistle and, more rarely, dive into the water.
Lifeguarding is all fun and games until Cornpop and his homies show up!
GMTA!
Just take a chain and wrap it around his head! C'mon, Man!
There’s something wrong with this nation’s young men.
Damn near 40 aint that young. Look at the dude. You think he can save you drowning? Have a feeling that you will need 2 life guards since he brags that he barely passed. Its his dream jopb because he gets to look at you g girls, sits on his ass in the sun and blow a whistle. After labor day, he goes back into reality!
Cornpop was a bad dude. I wouldn’t dismiss his dangerousness just because he’s dead.
“Whistle blowers wanted” is a caption that the OP should have removed. See the link in #2 and scroll down, watching on the left hand side.
—”Cornpop was a bad dude. I wouldn’t dismiss his dangerousness just because he’s dead.”
It is my opinion that Pop’s existence or nonexistence is totally dependent on joe the jamoke?
—”And WSJ creates an article on him. Clown world.”
Guessing that you might be an assistant to the Prince of Darkness, with a marked dislike of fun and enjoyment?
Corn Pop is likely a fig-newton of joe the jamoke’s imagination.
Yes it is.
They were sugar pops in dementia joes day.
Corn Pop makes no sense at all.
Sugar Smack would have worked but dementia joe isn’t to quick on his feet.
Though Biden has always been a shameless liar, and greatly exaggerates even true stories I’m willing to believe that Cornpop really did exist, that his real name was William Morris, that he really was a bad dude, and that Biden really did have some sort of confrontation with him.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/heavy.com/news/2019/09/joe-biden-corn-pop-william-morris/amp/
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