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Not only a bonus, but a bonus big enough to get a pool.
Back in the 80s I thought that a bonus that big and wanting to spend it on a pool is something only rich people can do.
I mean, have you seen their house? It might be bigger than the home alone house.
I just assumed that the family in the movie was rich and that all of the drivers of the plot were rich people problems. Kinda like Home Alone.
Chevy Chase's character is a pretty well off professional in a big Chicago company with a pretty nice house. Hardly representative of what most people had at the time.
It bugs me when Hollywood portrays "average" families that way, even back then. Everything from Home Alone to Nightmare on Elm Street to American Pie does the same thing. Mean Girls gets a pass because satirizing that life is part of the point.
Pools are cheap. You can offset the price if the water by selling all the dirt.
Lmao have you ever owned a pool? Unless you are out of touch with reality and don’t know what cheap is.
People always pay so much money for pools. It’s literally a lack of stuff!