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If you're a parent, you know the hidden meaning behind each one of your child's screams. You know the "I'm in pain" scream, the "Help me I'm in trouble" scream, and the much more frequently heard "How could you do that to me? Don't you know who I am?" scream, otherwise known as the Diva scream. When my daughter got knocked off her mat by her brother, Lori and I heard the Diva scream.
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Which was probably a lot easier before the floundering child noticed a fully clothed person swimming towards her. My daughter, realizing that perhaps she had overdramatized the amount of injustice to which she had been subjected, stopped yelling at her brother, swam to the side of the pool, and climbed out, leaving the poor lifeguard standing in the middle of the pool, wringing out his shirt and wondering just which adults were going to claim responsibility for the child with the newfound Olympic swimming ability. I looked around quickly for an escape route, but my daughter was already upon us, still complaining at full volume about the indignities that she had suffered.
We did our best to apologize to the lifeguard, who I must say was far more understanding than I might have been under the same circumstances, but the second that he disappeared in to the back room to get dried off we grabbed our stuff and abandoned the pool area. The next day we changed hotels and moved over to the Rio, although we did tread lightly at that pool for the first little bit. I've heard about the black lists that Vegas has for banned gamblers, and we were concerned that perhaps there was a pool version of this list, and that we were on it. It took a couple of days, but eventually we were convinced that there were no "Wanted" posters with our faces on them, and we got back to enjoying the pool. We've never taken the kids back to the Paris pool though, and I doubt that we ever will. The only positive from the experience is that now, whenever I lose while gambling at the Paris casino, I can just chalk it up to some kind of cosmic balancing out of things and be OK with it. Although, if that theory works, I'd love to know who my kids pissed off at Caesars Palace.
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