Big Splash

My mother, who is now in her 80th year, recently decided to make the dream of a pool in her garden into reality and after getting various quotes she chose a vendor and is on the fast-track for a pool that will be finished this summer. I keep getting updates via WhatsApp and will have the chance to inspect progress later this week.

When she asked her pool construction guy if she was his oldest client, he told her that he had a 91-year-old commissioning a pool. This really brought home the difference in attitude: the, um, object of my long non-relationship decided to tear his beautiful and well-maintained pool down after he had just turned fifty, calculating that it would save him a lot of effort in his old days when he might not be physically fit enough to keep it up. I was aghast then, but it was not my decision, nor my place to comment, even. He found his decision completely reasonable and went ahead dismantling it and using it as a landfill. 

Well, I guess it's genetic: I'll always be team seize the day, not team "what if"...