My local swimming pool - the most negative place on earth?

[DreamingofSummer]

Just back from the pool. Whilst I was in the queue I noticed that every single sign in the place was a negative one: -

No mobile phones
No photography
No admission without a ticket
No cut-down jeans
No entry less then 30 minutes before closing
No boys over 8 in the women's changing rooms

These were in addition to the usual "no petting, no smoking, no bombing etc".

Whatever happend to "Welcome - enjoy your swim"?

No enjoying yourself

Perhaps I should come and swim in the sparkling brook?

no cut-down jeans is a b it odd

Our local one could do with a notice up "No warm water". They just have a tmerature displayed which you forget how cold 25deg is until you get into it...

It would be more welcoming Dreaming. We have the no warm water thing too DeWe.

No boys over 8 in the womens changing room. DS and I would be buggered then he's 10 and we share a "family" sized cubicle and a big locker. what is he supposed to do with his clothes? Have his own locker? Then I would need to make sure I have two spare £1 coins. How irritating.

Ok so the government Change for Life scheme is encouraging swimming and exercise but your leisure centre is discouraging it.

Our leisure centre has communal (spelling) changing with lockable cubicles. I have never seen a sign saying "no cut off jeans" either

I assume people were wearing cut off jeans as trunks?

The reason for banning cut-down jeans is to do with the filters - cut-downs tend to shed threads and fibres, which then clog the filters in the pool and cost the pool time and money to clean out.

Can't imagine swimming in Jeans. Don't they get awfully heavy?

the cut down jeans thing is to stop people (teenage boys mostly) going into the pool when not wearing "proper" swimming trunks. supposedly something to do with not clogging the filters, but more to maintain "proper" standards I suspect

oh I see , I didn't realise people were swimming in the cut-off jeans