Raina, after reading your post I decided, "Gosh darn it. Maybe this does work." So I went ahead and tried it again on those two little girls I told you about. It didn't work at all on the first one... even though I used a bunch of salt. Then, when I tried it on the second one I did get her to sputter and burp up water a little... but nothing more than that. She's still as purple as Barney the Dinosaur.
Even worse, when the police started looking for 'em... they came right to my house this time. I'd already put 'em both back in the wading pool and I had to make up this really dumb story for the cops about how maybe the neighborhood had this serial wading pool killer. The guy from the newspaper who came to interview me really liked the name and he wrote this big dumb article about the "Wading Pool Killer" and now it's going in a bunch of detective magazines. (The cool part though is I got to meet that guy John Walsh from AMERICA'S MOST WANTED when he and his crew came to film my back yard. They even gave me an AMW baseball cap I can wear.)
I got really lucky and it turned out the old guy who lived at the end of the block was one of those Megan's Law guys who is supposed to register with the police. (He was a school teacher and had to retire about 30 years ago when they caught him with kiddie porn in his garage.) Well, lucky for me he hadn't registered like he was supposed to and the cops zero'd right in on him. They dragged him out of the house in his underwear and he was all screaming and crying about how he was 86 years old and on supplemental oxygen and had been impotent for 20 something years. (The whiney pus!) Well, while the cops were giving him the rubber hose treatment and waiting to get a search warrant... I reached in the window of his house and dropped some of the girls' stuff... you know little overalls and hair bows and stuff... and that basket of cookies they brought me. The cops should the stuff to the girls' moms and they decided it had to be him... so I'm pretty much off the hook this time... but I'm a little worried that my luck is gonna run out if I keep trying this.
Are you really really sure it works? We've only got one little kid left in the neighborhood.