Poolside observations

This afternoon V and M went swimming. The air wasn't hot enough to heat the water enough for my taste, so I just sat poolside in the shade watching them play. It's absolutely amazing how much more progress the kids have made in the swimming area. They both now can tread water well enough that they don't need their lifejackets in the shallow end of the pool. Both are becoming adept at going underwater without holding their noses first and are doing excellent at swimming underwater for short distances. M wants a set of goggles so he can open his eyes under the water.

Why is it that the best looking women at my apartment complex are either married/have boyfriends, are smokers or have large obnoxious tattoos, or a combination of all three?

There were two couples, each with a small child at the pool today. Each woman was physically attractive enough. The best looking woman of the two had no large visible tattoos but took time out from playing with her daughter to light up a cigarette. Yack. The other woman, while not as attractive as the first, not only was a smoker but had a tattoo that covered the majority of her back. Yuck.

I'm not really into tattoos myself but can (sort of) understand the desire to have a small, discreet one.

Then there was another woman who was there with her kids. She was wearing a bikini but was way too skinny for it. She had two medium sized tattoos on her back and a smaller one on each leg, near the ankles, though she didn't light up while she was there. Two of the kids she brought were tossed out of the pool by the pool monitor for excessive horsing around and another, younger kid somehow got hurt near the end and was complaining that he could not see and was crying for help. She got mad at the pool monitor, whom she thought was an actual lifeguard, for not doing more to help. She was complaining about the lack of assistance while she was huddling over the injured kid, who I'm assuming was her son.

With myself and possibly the skinny bikini lady above as exceptions, the rest of the adults at the pool this afternoon (including the pool monitor lady) were smokers. I understand that the pool area is an open air public place but... what ever happened to public areas being smoke free? Is there some kind of law that is supposed to restrict such behavior - something similar to the law in effect banning smoking from restaurants?