Swimming pool hygiene- other people!

[jamontoastaddict]

I go swimming regularly 3-5 times a week and am always disgusted by the habits of others and wondered if 1) this happens everywhere and 2) if it would annoy anyone else

1. Not putting rubbish in the bin. Today it was a swimming mask packet chucked in the floor. Previously a huge space

blanket left on the changing unit. empty shampoo containers and so on left it the showers

1. people wearing outdoor footwear in the showers when trying to shower kids after swimming lessons. one woman always wears wellies or country boots thick with mud. this means i have to shower in muddy foot prints. in wished they ban out door footwear in the showers or provide shoe covers as no one seems to have any any common decency anymore!

1. the three open showers are opposite the the three toilet cubicles. 9/10 people do not wash their hands and go straight to the the pool back to the lockers. I

just find this so awful!

is it just me that this would annoy?

I was just about to rejoin our local hotel pool but now I'm feeling a bit sick reading this. 🤢🤢🤢

How old is your DD? Why is she touching those things?
I do think the chlorine is pretty effective. You don't hear of people becoming unwell from swimming pools very often.

She’s 9, I do tell her not to touch it and that it’s gross but she seems to not be able to help herself once she sees something. We went swimming the other day and she found a centipede and a woodlouse (obviously dead) she sometimes finds earrings, belly bars and hair bands.

Eww, hate that too, tasting everyone's perfume/deodorant. Disgusting 🫣

My local centre is nice but its expensive and only a few years old.

My main gripes are people coming into the changing rooms with muddy shoes on and the men people who dont shower before they get in.

Its definitely busier and noticeably not as clean and tidy during half term too. I often think it'd be nice to have a women only swimming baths/gym.

came out of the jacuzzi once at my gym and had someone else scab stuck on my chest🤑

I stopped going swimming some time ago for those reasons. The germs in the pool and around the floor for one
And seeing plasters rubbish and all sorts of other disgusting things .
I just go for walks everyday which I find much more relaxing not to worry what I'm going to see .

Someone I know when they go on holiday as they don't drive, don't take shower gel, shampoos etc and just has a swim and shower rinse after. Basically uses pool filthy. Openly admits it

Oh wow 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

I used to swim regularly.
There may be a notice to shower before proceeding to the pool, some do and wet their shoulders, many don’t. When was the last time you saw someone washing their armpits and “round the houses” before entering the water. The latter is the part of the body likely to shed the most noxious detritus and I read somewhere blocks the filters 🤢. I stopped swimming soon afterwards.

We went to Spain some years ago and were sunbathing by the pool. I got up and said, 'I'm going for a swim.'

DH said, 'Oh no, you're not!'

'Why not?' I said. 'It's boiling.'

He pointed at the pool to where a mother had just removed her DC's full nappy and was washing its shitty arse in the pool.

Reader, I changed my mind (and haven't been in a public pool since).

Women who go to swim with a face full of make up and stinking of rank chemical perfumes.
Why?

You're in a public space 🤦‍♀️what else would you expect apart from people behaving differently to your expectations?

The smell of piss in the changing rooms!

Oh, god we had a bloke like that at our old naice pool too. He'd come in
straight from the gym, dripping with sweat and with a very wet 'do-rag' on his head, strip off his top, trainers and socks then jump right into the pool -- wet shorts, do-rag and all.
It was truly unpleasant to see.