The Pool Floater July 14, 2001 Seeing as how the pool is up and no one was here but me, I thought I would lay on the pool floater and see if maybe I could do something with these white legs. So I got the pool floater thing, put it in the pool and attempted to get up on it. So first I pull it close to me and try to heave myself up on it belly first. Should have known I couldn't jump that high. The floater flew to the other side of the pool as I fell to the bottom of the pool. Then I tried pulling it over to the ladder and getting on the step and straddle it. As I put my leg over the floater, it jumped 10 feet straight into the air as I slid off the end of it. Then I tried just standing on the ladder and falling on it face first. I never slid down anything so fast in my life, but I caught the floater before it flew all the way out of the pool. Several more attempts with contortions to go with them, I thought it would have been easier to drain the water and get on it, then fill the pool up. I was thinking to myself, thank god no one is here watching me, and I look over at the deck and there is my husband smirking to himself. "Do you want me to rent a crane?" he asks.