Fantastick

The Broadway musical, The Fantasticks, has a very funny song where 2 fathers wonder why kids pull crazy stunts like putting jam all over a cat, or sticking beans in their ears. To be honest, I can actually sympathize with with the kids on this. I mean, what would a cat do if you smeared it with something red, sticky and tasty? Beans in ears - well they are about the right size and really, what are those holes for if not to put a treasure in, right?

What I cannot figure out is why, why would you ever put a SHOVEL, much less THREE SHOVELS in a swimming pool? And these are not the bright, shiny tools nicely kept in a garage kind of shovels. No. Weathered. Dirty. Rusty. Covered in mud and dead grass that is now in your POOL kind of shovels.

I mean, unless Lacie's plan was to whack Andrea with one so she could have the place to herself, but kept missing and so rather than fish the shovel out of the water she figured it'd be easier to grab another one to try again -- really, what was the? why was she? how did? ... Seriously, huh?