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Lesson from a lady who had all her neighbors watch her swim naked

"House to let. Self-contained with communal pool and sunken bar". A story is told of a young lady who wanted a house then came across the above notice in a local newspaper. She undertook the necessary procedures and eventually moved into the house. Every evening the lady could go to the pool, undress and go ahead to take a long swim before heading back to her house. All this while, she thought that all the other tenants did not appreciate the purpose of the pool, since she was the only one who spent time in its waters.

The young lady was the arrogant type and any person who made any attempt to speak to her was dismissed rudely. This made all the other tenants to keep off from her and she enjoyed her cold evening swims for days. One day, she received a visitor who asked her to accompany him to the bar. “There is no bar around here. They lied to us on the notice," she answered her visitor. "No one lied to you. You are the one who did not read the notice carefully. The bar is in a basement in the middle of the courtyard," the visitor told her.

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