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Growing up Pool Pro

Jul 05, 202222 minSeason 2Ep. 104
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Text us a pool question!

This is the one where Kelli has her sister Kristen join as a guest cohost and the two relive and share the impact growing up in the pool industry has had on their lives.

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: ours yeah

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[kelli]: as my thought okay

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[kelli]: hey everyone it's taco tuesday with kelly
and dan we have a guest host today

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[kelli]: my sister christen with the pool gall
of houston and we're very excited to have

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[kelli]: her today because today we're going to
talk about growing up in the pool industry

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[kelli]: so obviously everybody's you know stories are
different but we'll talk about ours you know

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[kelli]: from growing up in it what we
did as young adults and then what got

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[kelli]: us here so welcome stan

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: hello kelly and the rest of the
world

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: she likes to make fun of me

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: tell i'm

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[kelli]: you're

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the younger

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[kelli]: so weird

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: sister m

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[kelli]: oh my gosh so how is your
day to day i heard you you're trying

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[kelli]: to log in you you fell on
your stairs

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: yeah i slipped down the stairs

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[kelli]: yes

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: adam my son came to check on
me at least

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[kelli]: what did he have to say

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: said are you okay yeah i'm fine

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i ran to get

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: my charger

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[kelli]: so so how how many flights of
stairs did you go down

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: one

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[kelli]: okay so it wasn't too embarrassing

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: no it wasn't the full two

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[kelli]: okay

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: so

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[kelli]: okay so like we said we're going
to talk about you know being growing up

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[kelli]: in the pool industry i would have
to say both of us were on the

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[kelli]: same page of we did not want
to do pools at all

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: oh no i

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[kelli]: at least

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: never

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[kelli]: as adults well

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: never wanted to do pools i learned
that at a young age oh

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[kelli]: when did you decide that

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: when i think probably

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: about the time that i think we
were probably about like i was probably about

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: like eleven or like

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: seven or eleven and mom mom used
to take us

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[kelli]: seven eleven

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: mom used to take us to pools
and she used

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[kelli]: i

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: to tell us we used to get
paid twenty dollars

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[kelli]: let

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: a day but would get deducted for
white

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[kelli]: keep in mind she's doing

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: quotations

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[kelli]: the

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: air quotations

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[kelli]: she's doing the parent

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: um

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: we would get deducted for our lunch
that day

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[kelli]: oh i remember

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: mac donald

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[kelli]: i remember her saying oh i'm going
to pay you you ex amount of dollars

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[kelli]: an hour and then the end of
the day would come and she'd be like

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[kelli]: well you probably owe me for something

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: well then again most of the time
we did sit inside the truck or like

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the extent of our pool cleaning at
that age was emptying baskets or carrying

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[kelli]: yeah oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the bucket emptying out the leaves after

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[kelli]: a

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: each visit and i

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: will say i was designated

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[kelli]: i

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: her dog

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[kelli]: i mean

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: player she said i was the dog
whisper for all

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the pools so

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[kelli]: yes

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the oh end i remember one of
our biggest jobs was i got to change

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the floor drains as a child because
i could hold my breath long enough to

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: get down there and then unscrew it
and put it back in i did that

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: probably

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[kelli]: oh my god

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: try about

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[kelli]: i

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: like

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[kelli]: don't even

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: well

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[kelli]: remember that

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i was like twelve or thirteen when
i used to do that i've done it

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: to a couple of pools but i
was like a little fish so i was

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: able to get

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: down there one breath to unscrew

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[kelli]: ah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: another one to go

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[kelli]: you

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and put it back

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[kelli]: so do you remember when we started
like really going out and helping because i

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[kelli]: want to say we didn't really go
out and help our parents to they had

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[kelli]: their first store

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i i

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[kelli]: remember that little tiny store in the
pocket area

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: back story for everyone is that our
parents did have pool store

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: so we had a we had a
pool store front where my dad did repairs

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: my mom mainly my dad did repairs
on like pelarises and things that he could

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: take to the store and then they
would switch off of who was going to

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: be in the store and the other
person my dad would go many

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: pages

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[kelli]: so he would go do repairs and
stuff up until what like yeah dad would

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[kelli]: go out at like what nine nine
ten o'clock and he would then work out

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[kelli]: in the field doing repairs until what
noon one and then she would take

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: yeah

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[kelli]: off

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and then mom will

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[kelli]: and

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: go

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[kelli]: do

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: do

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[kelli]: her

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the

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[kelli]: route

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: role

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[kelli]: and then have to come pick us
up

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and then so

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i wanted and

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[kelli]: so

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i was

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[kelli]: and they had that

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: was that the first store the fort

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[kelli]: i was going to say their very
first store their

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: first

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[kelli]: very

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: for we didn't

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[kelli]: first

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: help

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[kelli]: store

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: her

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[kelli]: was that little tiny like

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the first store we didn't help i
didn't help

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[kelli]: do

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: that

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[kelli]: you say

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: much because i was too young

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[kelli]: we did think i love him

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: but maybe you did

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[kelli]: yeah no i just

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i

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[kelli]: remember

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: did my

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[kelli]: going

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: side

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[kelli]: there

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: hustles at the store but other than
that the second

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: score

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[kelli]: god

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: is when i used i

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[kelli]: and

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: was

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[kelli]: then

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: a woblwasher

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[kelli]: there

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: okay

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[kelli]: this

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: then the second store is when

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: we started helping more we were older
so we used to stalk everything

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[kelli]: that's where we got in trouble remember
we got in trouble before telling a customer

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[kelli]: about water captor

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: oh i think

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[kelli]: and

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i was

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[kelli]: then

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: like

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[kelli]: after

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: eight

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[kelli]: that

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: years

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[kelli]: we

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: old

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[kelli]: weren't allowed to go in the store
with customers

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i was like eight

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: years old

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[kelli]: you're

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and

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[kelli]: like

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i would

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[kelli]: eight so i would have been ike
thirteen

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: we had that was when the computer
ized test test water testing first start coming

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: out like on the old school computer
and our member mom taught us how to

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: do it and customers would come in
and we test their water and they're looking

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: at me like who is this child
telling me what is wrong with my pool

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: water and it would be me

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and you and then we got in
trouble for telling them what's wrong with their

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: pool water um and apparently one of
the

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[kelli]: because

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: customers

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[kelli]: they

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: didn't

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[kelli]: felt like

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: like

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[kelli]: idiots

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: it they did not like it very
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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: now now we feel that being adults
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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: stuff but as a child they really
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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: but that's also old

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[kelli]: i know so what i guess we
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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: no

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[kelli]: every saturday morning we had to go
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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: summers

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[kelli]: yeah and summer

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and game

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: shows

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[kelli]: that's oh yes what was it was
first it was game you get like the

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[kelli]: old shows like green acres

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: but

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[kelli]: and

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i love those

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[kelli]: petticoat

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and then

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[kelli]: junction

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: it was cops

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: we

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[kelli]: was

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: loved

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[kelli]: on

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: copse for

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[kelli]: keep

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: a while

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[kelli]: in mind basic

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and then

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[kelli]: cable

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: like

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[kelli]: what you could receive

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: just different game

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[kelli]: with

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: shows

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[kelli]: an intenna

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: or talk

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[kelli]: this

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: shows

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[kelli]: wasn't

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: ud be

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[kelli]: you

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: like

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[kelli]: know you got disney

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the

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[kelli]: channel

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: prices

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[kelli]: or

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: right

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[kelli]: any of that

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and things like

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: that

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[kelli]: was straight up

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: um

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[kelli]: basic five channels

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: yeah

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[kelli]: and then when the old shows were
over and the infomercials started on that channel

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[kelli]: we moved to the next channel which
had the game show so we had like

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[kelli]: family feud and oh what's that one
where they um bid on the how much

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[kelli]: is this this piece of

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: price

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[kelli]: whatever

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: is right

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[kelli]: cost now

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: this

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: is right

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[kelli]: price is right yes and then after
that we then were stuck on infomercials forever

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: being

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[kelli]: and that

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: in

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[kelli]: we

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: the

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[kelli]: really

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: store

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[kelli]: got bored

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: our parents taught us at a young
age that still follows me to this day

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: of every single label has to be
facing forward

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[kelli]: every single

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: we have to put out all the
pool like

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[kelli]: perfectly

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: oh remember what was it the pool
party pool die putting those out and have

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: a

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: nickels we we we were the guinea
pigs for all new pool

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[kelli]: a

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: toys and fun things like pool party
we had a lot of colored pools at

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: that time and all the pool tall

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[kelli]: and yes pool party was was the
good one that was the one that didn't

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[kelli]: you know ruin everything and then i
remember we would always get into the spot

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[kelli]: since the little testers

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i actually just sent you a tik
tok on that the little oil the little

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: oil capsules

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: we used to get them because of
spaws and use them in our bath tubs

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: or kelly me used to get our
floats from their kelly cell saved me on

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: a whale from the store at a
customers pool from me when

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[kelli]: m

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: winking

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[kelli]: yeah one time she my mom

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: m

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[kelli]: my mom would let us in the
summer time on certain customers because there's some

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[kelli]: customers like hey just jump

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: family

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[kelli]: in you know it's okay and and
we we were there at one of the

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[kelli]: pools this is a old fiber glass
pool in a more up scale neighborhood and

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[kelli]: my mom said yeah you guys can
swim like we knew how to swim but

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[kelli]: not

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: she

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[kelli]: like

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: try

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[kelli]: super

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: to go and

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[kelli]: strong

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: get some acid

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[kelli]: t

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: and she said sit on the stairs
christ and do not move off of those

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: stairs you sit on the top stair
and of course i think

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[kelli]: yeah and i'm over holding a pole

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: you haven't

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[kelli]: i'm holding

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: deepened

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[kelli]: the pole for my mom because she's
vacuming

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: you want to beat

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[kelli]: yep and then christin thinks oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: yeah

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[kelli]: i can swim i can come and
and swim to you kelly

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: she even

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[kelli]: and

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: told me

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[kelli]: what

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: what wring

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[kelli]: you ended up slipping

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i slipped right where the deep

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[kelli]: yeah it was a fibre

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: yeah kelly came saving the

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[kelli]: she

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: day

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[kelli]: she

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: on a

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[kelli]: just

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: wall

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[kelli]: slips

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: would have been dramatizing

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[kelli]: oh my god she was so mad

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: yeah he a few years later now
i'm the

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[kelli]: now

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: one diving

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[kelli]: we understand

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: down to go

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[kelli]: why

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: put in to go put in her
her what's it calls her her drink pope

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[kelli]: her main drain covers

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: three years later now you can swim
to enough

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: go

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[kelli]: my

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: on

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[kelli]: god

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: down uh yeah i know so that

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: that's

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[kelli]: my

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: how

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[kelli]: gosh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: our summers were and having to go
and then do those things were really gonna

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: do too

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[kelli]: uh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: much we were younger

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[kelli]: h

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: you got more into it when you
were older because you're

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[kelli]: oh

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: older than me have had times

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: that i've

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[kelli]: i

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: had

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[kelli]: know daddy would

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: when she couldn't go do a route
or

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[kelli]: yeah

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: something that i would

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[kelli]: i know

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: go out for her when i was
like sixteen seventeen yeah

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[kelli]: oh wow yeah i didn't do that

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: no

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[kelli]: i know

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: you were older i think you were

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[kelli]: when i was in high school like
well daddy would have me on like spring

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[kelli]: break or something he'd be like hey
do you want to make some extra money

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[kelli]: and

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[kristen_the_pool_gal_houston]: i never got her

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