Agnes by Tony Cochran for August 04, 2016

Dying IS a bummer.Shake the board, Agnes, it works with cats..(Now you are all thinking I do things like that to cats. My brother, Howard, did once shoot down the limb a cat was hanging from. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I ever saw that cat again, he hit the ground running and didn’t look back.)

I’m terrified of heights.

I was Agnes; I was this other little girl….though not quite, cos I insisted on backing down the ladder… never even walked all the way out the board.

I already told, one day in this forum, about being pushed off by an impatient person behind me… I think I was 12.I was only a few steps away from the top of the ladder, panicking not only at the height but cos the diving board was springy.I was a good swimmer, but paralysed with fear, I plummeted deep, almost drowned, and had to be rescued.

Had someone shaken the board I think I would have fainted, and fallen in unconscious.Don’t.

“Mountain heritage name”. As an Appalachian-American myself, I’m loving it!

What if the postal person doesn’t do springboard deliveries?

Is it my imagination, or is the diving board a lot longer than it was in previous summers? Good for Agnes for trying to help, in her own klutzy way.

I predict a happy ending. Agnes will be a hero.

they are going in the pool together

especially if Agnes goes to the end of the board, that springy board may bend half way down anyway.