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We had an above ground pool at the house when we moved in. I didn't particularly want a pool, but the house was nice...
A few years later wife and I are out minivan shopping (expecting our 2nd child... an econobox wasn't gonna cut it anymore) in Florida August heat. In the middle of the dealer's lot, I said "be nice to get home and get in the pool" - wife was looking forward to it, being 7 months along...
We get home, and while we were out the pool wall gave out and dumped all 12k gallons of water on our back yard, right over our septic drain field. Fortunately it had been really dry and so a lot of it ran off away from my drain field and it wasn't effected...
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