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Alli & Chris

October 7, 2017 • Galena, IL

Alli & Chris

October 7, 2017 • Galena, IL

It's fun to stay at the YMCA (her version of their first encounter)

So, after Alli moved to Milwaukee to start school, she began looking for a job. Since all she knew was lifeguarding and teaching people how to swim (literally, she could teach almost anyone), she decided to try the local YMCA. After getting hired in the spring of 2011, she decided to work at the Schroeder pool next door. Since they were guarded by the same group of people, she got to know a lot of the employees in the building (and a lot of the regular patrons as well). One night, Alli was closing up both pools. Usually, she would close Schroeder first, since the hours were shorter. On this particular night, the head coach was still in the locker room, and had asked Alli if she could lock up but leave the lights on. You know, so he wasn't showering in the dark. Anyways, Alli did just that. She locked ALL of the doors, turned off the side lights, and left. Not even thirty minutes later, some scraggly looking guy came down to the YMCA deck. Here's how their conversation went...

Him: "Uh, is there a reason that the lights are still on over in Schroeder?"

Her: "Yeah, the coach told me to leave them on. He said he would turn them off before he left but obviously he didn't."

I knew I had to learn his name.