Pocantico Hills

Pocantico Hills is a hamlet in the village of Sleepy Hollow in the town of Mount Pleasant in God knows what city in Westchester county in the state of New York, yeah mouth full...New York's weird like that. Pocantico Hills is a school which to my knowledge the Rockefeller family donated the money to build, pool included. It's very secluded and hard to find. The school sits on acres of land in the middle of Rockefeller owned parks. I've worked as a life guard at Pocantico Hills residential pool for 5 summers, this being my 6th. I taught swim lesions and coached the swim team. (undefeated season I might add) What makes this place interesting is the people that work there and the activities we do to entertain ourselves. Being a Hamlet, Pocantico doesn't have very many regular visitors to its pool so on quiet days or rainy days the staff finds the most absurd forms of entertainment. Our boss bought a surf board to "teach waterfront safety" but it was really just an excuse for all of us to surf across the diving bowl when no patrons are using the pool. It rained today, but with no thunder we were good to go. We try and get two people to run and surf together; we have competitions to see which team can get the farthest. For added difficulty sometimes you'll get tennis balls thrown at you or someone will jump off the high dive to makes waves so you tip and fall in. Other than surfing our staff has made up our own game called foot-skit-ball; The object of the game is to throw a football from one end of a basketball court to the other trying to make the football into the hoop. You get points for hitting the backboard and net but you get the most points for getting the ball into the hoop. We also play numerous rounds of home run derby and uno. I'd say we have it pretty good at the pool; a lot of play for very little work and pretty high pay.