one of the worst things you can drop in a swimming pool!!!!

[sailork]

The worst thing to drop in a pool would be a glass bottle of fine single malt whiskey.

The glass comes up with a vaccuum and crossed fingers, but I've never figured out how to get the "nose of ancient peat" out of my filter and back in the bottle.

[medvampire]

They had just finished the pool and my kid picked up one of the screws the installers had dropped on the ground. I was mid sentence saying not to throw any thing over or in the pool and I hear a plunk. I ask what he had tossed and he told me it was one of the screws. Well it was dark I gave him a good verbal reminder of why it is a bad thing to toss any thing in the pool and retreated to the house. Next morning I grab one of the left over screws and sure enough it was non-iron based so no magnet would work. Got the pole and wrapped some duct tape sticky side out and went fishing. After about an hour of eye busting searching screw located at the bottom. Grabbed taped pool pole and held the taped end on the screw for around minute or so and pulled up. Screw came with the pole about 3 foot and dropped. I spent the next 30 minutes getting the screw to out of the pool. Little later my future wife called from work asking what I had been doing all morning and I told her I had been “screwing around” … “really”…”in the pool”…”click” .. Things were kind of cold around the house for a few days until I told her what had happened and the kid agreed with my story.
Steve