by
Kristen Lambert
nce upon a time when swimming pools were not invented people had to swim in their bathtubs. The parents of the children that swam almost all the time got mad because their bathrooms were flooded, so Abraham Lincoln invented pools. That is how Abraham Lincoln became president, well maybe.
Swimming was fun except for one problem. The pools were in the houses. That was a big big problem! Everybody got mad. Everybody was soaked and all their stuff was soaked. Even their houses were soaked. Abraham Lincoln invented floating rocking chairs, floating beds, floating couches, floating clothes, floating dressers, floating garbage cans, floating books, floating phones, floating boxes and even floating clocks. By that time Abraham Lincoln was very very old because he invented almost two thousand things. The day after Abraham Lincoln died the new president was George Washington. He finally invented outside swimming pools, so he was the best president anybody could have. Everybody threw away the two thousand things that Abraham Lincoln spent all that time making, but nobody cared.
Everybody started to swim outside. All the children that had pools made up one thousand different ways to play in the pool. They made up cannonballs, diving boards, water slides, marco polo, and find the penny. Soon everybody was swimming in their pools or lakes or the ocean all the time.
When the last report cards came out that year the kids were really happy because school was over. The mothers and fathers of the children were very mad because the children got mostly d's and f's. The parents told their children that they were grounded from the pool for a whole month. They would have to study, read and work on math instead of swimming. The children were very mad so they only pretended to do the studying and reading that they were supposed to do. When their parents found out they grounded them for another week. That week the children had to stay in their rooms. The children finally did their studying and their parents let them swim again. They were aloud to swim for the rest of the summer.
When school started in the fall the children studied instead of swimming. They only swam on weekends and on days they had no homework. Their parents were very glad when the first report cards came out. The children got mostly A's and B's. For the rest of the year the children studied hard and when the school year was over they got to swim all they wanted. That is why kids swim in the summer.
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