The novelty had evaporated. The kids were bored of it. Sarah didn't want to ruin her hair. Greg was tired of the ritual: the freezing dash from the back door to the tub, the wet footprints on the hardwood, and the constant battle against the local raccoon who viewed the insulated cover as a very warm, very expensive bed.
"Should've just bought a nice bathtub," Greg whispered, as he went back to balancing the pH one last time. why not to buy a hot tub
"Think of the stress melting away," Greg told his wife, Sarah, as he signed the installment plan. "Think of the winter nights under the stars." The novelty had evaporated
"The alkalinity is spiking, Sarah! I can’t stabilize the calcium hardness!" he shouted, his eyes red from chlorine fumes. The "Zen" was gone, replaced by the crushing responsibility of keeping a giant vat of human soup from turning into a swamp. Greg was tired of the ritual: the freezing
The Miller family didn't just buy a hot tub; they bought a "Hydro-Zen 5000 Paradise Portal." It arrived on a Tuesday, a gleaming marble-white basin of promise that sat on their deck like a luxury spacecraft.