The Cement Pond

Back to the class... Bubba and Clem start getting the students to com onto the Dive Emporium and Gas Station to turn in theys homework and take de tests. All 46 of them filter in and every single one passes with at least a 75%, about 7 folks scored 100%.

Clem had done set up a schedule calender up on a wall in the high tech classroom. The available times ( which were anytime anyone wanted it to be ) for the cement pond were listed and the students simply picked em a time. Theys also a place to sign u[p for a trip to LA or go to that lake to do the open water dives.

The trip down to Panama City in LA costed extra. What ya get with the deal is as follows: the roundtrip ride down in the infamous scubabus, the brand new bus what were painted like a five flag, white wid a red stripe over it; a schck meal on the way down; 2 nights at a motel on that pretty beach; 2 days of going out on the boat; all the scuba equipment; a dinner on Saturday night; and RC Coke A Colas on the bus, all ya wanted. This here special trip cost only $350. The bus will hold 20 folks comfy.

The cement pond work went gooder than 'spected. But it plum wore out ole Bubba and Clem. The boys needed sum hep. They had a heep more students to do still.

Clem had got a call from that yankee gal from New Jerk City what were in theys IDC/IE. She telled Clem that she has lost 4 jobs in dive shops already and needed a job reel bad. Clem, being the kind man what he is, told her to come on down and he would give her sum work. He telled Bubba about this and Bubba went to wondering how she could have been fired 4 times in less than a month.

That yankee gal instructor flyed down the next morning and taked her a cab to Bubba and Clem's Dive Emporium and Gas Station. She brung all that yankee dive stuff wid her including her hood and gloved and that 43mm wet suit. Bubba said thank God she didn't brung that weight belt.

The boys were gonna have her do sum pool teaching whilst they went to lunch. Bubba won the pick this time and off to the Varsity they did go. They was gonna have to be in the cement pond all afternoon so theys don't order too much. Clem has him 4 chili dogs and 2 chili burgers whereas Bubba orders him only 6 chili dogs heaped with onions. They each get an order of fries and a PC ( for the yankees and other dumb sorts amongst the readers, a PC is Varsity talk for a chocolate milk - a plain chocolate ). Bubba fetches a couple of chili dogs for Rudy in a sack.

Clem gets a call on his cellular phone whil he had a big ole mouthful of chili dog. It were a student of theys raising all kinda heck about that there new instructor. Clem says they be back in about an hour and they will talk then. What could that yankee woman instructor have done? Bubba just knowed that theys a reason she be fired so much.

Well went theys got back to the Dive Emporium and Gas Station, the store was filled with rather angry students. Seems that nobody likes that instructor. She has been there half a day and done already made 12 peoples reel furious. Seems that she don't do a good job of demonstrating the skills and she yells at the students like theys were New Jerk City cab drivers. She called a little girl an idiot causen she did sumthing wrong and she done insulted just about every one of the students. Clem wanted to giver the instructor the benefit of doubt, but Bubba insisted they talk to her right now.

Clem called that yankee woman instructor with the trash mouth into tyeys delux office, the one wid the microwaved oven and refrigerator. Theys set her down and ax her what went on in the pool session. She cops a reel bad attitude ( is it it a normal one for sumone from NJC ) and splains that the students were all dumb people from the South and wouldn't listen to her. Bubba, thinking to hisself, wonders how she can spect sumone to listen to her when she can't even talk English, she talk with a heavy Brooklyn accent and at 50 miles per hour. Clem don't like her saying that about the students of Bubba and Clem's Dive Emporium and Gas Station is dumb. He is know understanding why she be fired from 4 other dive shops. Heck in them yankee dive shops theys all rude anyway, so she musta beed double rude to get the boot. To make a longish yarn short, they tell her she will not fit in there, theys sorry, but she is fired. They pay her for the half days work and she leaves. Bubba says to Clem, "praise the Lord".

They get back to work with more students in the cement pond. Clem is fighting the urge to throw up all them greasy hot dogs.

TO BE CONTINUED