Sharehouse's Inflatable Pool Could Probably Go In The Bin Now

PETE CLARK | Melbourne | CONTACT

As summer slowly winds up and sporadic climate change induced 46 degree days fade into memory, one sharehouse faces a grim chore ahead. 

For the upper tier of society sharehouses are a speculative investment for which to negatively gear but for the rest of society they are a place to live in.

In the summertime, most sharehouses become very hot. Inadequate airflow and costly air conditioning forces tenants to get creative to stay cool. 

Enter the inflatable pool.

Fewer moments in a young adult's life will live up to watching a hose slowly fill your first inflatable pool.

Friends are invited round, feet are cleaned upon entry, the water is cool and clear, the beers in the esky are cold. It's a sharehouse paradiso. 

A light storm ever so slightly changes the water colour, a few bugs begin to gather on the water's surface but this doesn’t stop anyone from having a dip.

Around Feb a green swamp like tinge develops. Everyone has stopped swimming but no one is addressing the elephant sized pool in the yard. 

The pool has officially become a chore.

The Advocate reached out to one sharehouse resident about these grim developments. 

“Yeh it’s basically become a floating beer can graveyard.”“It’s sad to see it like this but that was a pretty sick two weeks we had there.”“We’re trying to get Damo to jump in for $50 but he’s worried he’ll get some kind of infection,” he laughed.

The pool is reportedly still in the backyard, amassing large quantities of dragonflies. 

More to come.