Modern Commentary
This story - the rise and fall of Mr. Taylor - got built as things went on. A fuller version got told in The New Guy, three years later. And, to a lesser extent, throughout the entire comic.
Bud the pool boy isn't mentioned there, but there was a lot going on between Kimberly's parents. Kimberly's version of this is probably also true.
I'm pretty sure we had the basics of Kimberly's parents' backstory developed at this point, and part of it was finding a place to explain it and part of it was just deepening our understanding of it before we did. - Terrence