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AIBU?

To think that this comment at the swimming pool was grim ?

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Flukewoman · 03/01/2014 15:42

I took my toddler to the swimming pool today and overheard something which made me Confused when we were in the changing rooms afterwards.

There was another parent with two children, aged about 4 and 6 ish. The parent left the children in towels in a cubicle for a moment while opening up their locker.

When she came back she started shouting at the younger child who had evidently peed in his towel. She shouted that he should never do that in his towel as it is disgusting. Then she said "you know if you want a wee you do it in the shower, not in here!"

AIBU to think that's really rather filthy advice at a public swimming pool? The toilets are right next to the showers...

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kaizen · 03/01/2014 19:14

I swim everyday and Ive just realised that when I kick off the wall I sometimes enjoy filtering water through my mouth (or feels like that Grin) I absolutely don't give a fuck that beyond the lane ropes are kids (and adults) pissing. Obviously I'm therefore not bothered about the shower issue....

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lljkk · 03/01/2014 19:10

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Swimming pools are full of diluted sweat, and wee in the shower washes away much faster than the sweat.

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Flukewoman · 03/01/2014 19:03

Broccoli, I always wonder what it would feel like to come across a thread about something I'd done Grin

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Enb76 · 03/01/2014 19:03

It's basically just water, what's it going to do to you? If you waterski you're advised to pee in your wetsuit to keep you warm. I find it amusing that so many people are so horrified by this when the majority of you have changed nappies, probably been squirted in the eye or had explosive nappy all down your arm.

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broccolirocks · 03/01/2014 18:57

Phew, thought this was about me. Went swimming today and dd was very vocal about NOT having stared at the naked lady in the showers. She then asked me if I was a fully grown up woman, which left me wondering what I was lacking?

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Flukewoman · 03/01/2014 18:57

Rabbit that poor girl - but she was mortified when she realised it wasn't what everyone does!

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lozster · 03/01/2014 18:57

Conversation in posh gym in posh area 'mum is it ok to poo in the shower?' ' no Tarquin that is absolutely disgusting' 'mum is it ok to wee in the shower ?' 'yes that's fine darling'. This all going on in the shower cubicle next to me with water sluicing down the line.

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Solo · 03/01/2014 18:47

Urine is not sterile once it leaves the human body!

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MarianneEnjolras · 03/01/2014 18:29

Last time I went swimming the toilets were minging. Walking on the toilet floor with bare feet made me . I'd rather have pissed in the shower, they looked cleaner.

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MakingEveryDayCount · 03/01/2014 18:24

Eww ewww EWWWW. Anyone weeing in the showers is a dirty, feckin' minger, and an even bigger one if they're passing on their filthy habits to their impressionable children!
Seriously, how hard is it to go to the, you know, TOILET?! Not only is it a filthy habit, it smacks of being bone idle lazy as well!

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RabbitRabbit78 · 03/01/2014 18:20

A child at our school (former teacher here) went to her class swimming lesson and squatted over one of the drains in the changing rooms to do a wee, which is what her parents told her to do. Nice!

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Flukewoman · 03/01/2014 18:14

Ewww!

Grin At middle-class minge Grin

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Tailtwister · 03/01/2014 18:05

Yuck! My SIL lets her son do this and my FIL was actually laughing about him doing it up against the swimming pool shower wall the other day.

It's vile, horrible behaviour and really lazy of the parents to allow it.

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moominleigh94 · 03/01/2014 17:43

.... yuck.

I signed up to the more exclooosive gym last year hoping I'd seen the end of kids peeing on the floor etc. Instead I get there and there's no kids, but grown women walking around with their fannys on display and doing naked yoga in the changing rooms. Even after reading the hairdryering vagina thread, I wish they'd gone for a hairdryer rather than the public airing method they all used.

I went back to the public swimming pool. I'd rather swim in baby pee than see many more middle-class minges.

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livinginawinterwonderland · 03/01/2014 17:41

It wouldn't bother me. Pee is sterile and it'll get washed away by the water. I pee in the shower all the time. But, it's not something you announce to a changing room full of strangers!

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Flukewoman · 03/01/2014 17:40

Nostress Shock noooooo!

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WooWooOwl · 03/01/2014 17:34

If she didn't teach her children to pee in the shower, it probably wouldn't have occurred to them to pee anywhere other than a toilet.

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nostress · 03/01/2014 16:41

I was on hols once and in the kids pool with my 4 year old. A girl of about 7 nearby said to her dad "ohhhh its lovely and warm" at the same time I could see a huge cloud of yellow emerging from her. I can only assume that her filthy, lazy fuck wit of a dad told her to piss in the kiddy pool because he couldnt be arsed to take her to the loo. I was speechless and removed myself and son from pool very very quickly. The rest of the holiday was spent in the adult pool.

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Flukewoman · 03/01/2014 16:34

Ta v muchGrin

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peking · 03/01/2014 16:31

Topiary

/helpful

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NewtRipley · 03/01/2014 16:25
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Flukewoman · 03/01/2014 16:21

Oh god, poo crumbs. There's a phase that will never leave me Sad

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Flukewoman · 03/01/2014 16:20

Newt: noooooooooo. ooooooo. Really? Yes please to the link.

I have played hockey for nearly 20 years and seen all manner of nudity and topiary. But encouraging weeing in a public shower is one step too far.

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IamInvisible · 03/01/2014 16:19

I laughed too! Blush

I would have never, ever told my DC to wee in the showers because it is rank and it is a myth that urine is sterile. It only is until it reaches the urethra. here

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peking · 03/01/2014 16:18

Aaah, it probably does the immune system good.

After all, our ancestors regularly waded through it before the invention of sewers. And had it tipped on their heads.

Standing on very diluted piss in the shower seems positively civilised. Anyway I always wear flip-flops in public showers Wink

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