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My kid just asked why we don't have a pool.
I said because we don't need a pool.
He said "Tommy's house has a pool."
Tommy's house has a lot of things. Tommy's dad is a surgeon.
I'm not getting into a "my dad versus Tommy's dad" economic comparison with a 10-year-old.
I said pools are expensive to maintain and we wouldn't use it enough to justify the cost.
He said "but we could use it every day in summer."
We wouldn't. We'd use it for two weeks, get bored, and then it would sit there costing money.
I've seen this play out with our neighbors. They put in a $60K pool. Used it constantly for one summer. Now it just exists.
But I can't explain this to a kid who just wants to swim.
So I said "maybe someday" which is parent code for "no but I don't want to argue about it."
He seemed satisfied with that answer.
I'm not getting a pool.
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