"Hi, how are you?... I just wanted you to know that although we decided to go with different people for shift leaders, but we will still be making a few others shift leaders later on. . . You are defintely not on the 'NO' list. . ." (X3)
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| Best and Worst and Funniest Memories | |||||||||||
| Palm Springs Radio | |||||||||||
| It was during the end of the season in 2003 and a group of us lifeguards were going to work in Palm Springs. Raul and Natalie rented a huge van, so most of us could all ride together. Throughout most of the entire ride, one of the guards, Kevin, was playing around with all of the options on his phone. Then out of nowhere he calls up KIIS FM radio and starts talking to the DJ. The DJ then asks him how many of us there was, so Kevin starts counting, "1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ... (all the way to the last person)" and we are yelling out how many people there are and he was still counting. Then the DJ asks us if we could do a spot. So Kevin holds the phone up and we all yell out something like "Your listening to the top 5 at noon on KIIS FM." Something like that. So we listen to the radio for the rest of the way up to Palm Springs. Each time the station would give out, we would strain to hear it. Finally we are about a block away from Soak City and it is a little after noon. Our time was about to run out. Then Raul pulls of the main road onto a side street and parks and says that we are going to stay there until we hear the spot on the radio. So we sit there for about 5-10 minutes and it comes on. We were all excited! (Then I came home and later on during the day, one of my friends said that she hear the spot on the radio that morning and said she remembered that I was going up there and if it was me; which it was.) | |||||||||||
| Falling in the River | |||||||||||
| It was my 1st year at Soak City and it was the end of just another day. We were doing the closing walk around the river. This was way back when we had to follow the Shift Leader all the way around after we had cleared our spots. Anyways, we were over by River E, by the phone box and the guards behind me we in a hurry to get this finished with and go home. They were so anxiuos that they started to push a little and right as we got to the phone box they gave a little "nudge" again and I almost smacked into the phone box; but in the last second the rescue tube got most of the contact and I knocked me off the edge of the walkway. Right into the river. As a reflex I tried to stop myself from falling in, but the only part of my body that caught the hard cement wall, was my right leg. I climbed out of the water, wet but in one piece. Everyone started asking me if I was ok and I told them that I felt fine. Then they pointed out my leg to me. It was covered in blood. But that is only because when blood and water mix it always looks worse than it is. It turned out to be a small cut down along the side of the bone, bruising around the ankle. I still to this day have that scar and the inside of my ankle is still darker than the rest of my foot. | |||||||||||
| Rejected | |||||||||||
| Phone call: "Hi, how are you?... I just wanted you to know that although we decided to go with different people for shift leaders, but we will still be making a few others shift leaders later on. . . You are defintely not on the 'NO' list. . ." (X3) |
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