Good People of El Monte: Please Un-Fire Me

Everyone Loved Our Aquatic Center’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Video. Well, Almost Everyone.

Thank you, South Korean rapper Psy, for asking the mayor of El Monte to give me back my job. I never expected that getting fired from a municipal swimming pool would precipitate an international incident. But now I’m getting ahead of myself.

Let me rewind and explain: when I was a junior at Temple City High School, I took a lifeguarding class with some friends. I thought it would be fun and I’d get to meet girls. It was, and I did. Since our class instructor happened to be the pool …