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

[Flukewoman]

I took my toddler to the swimming pool today and overheard something which made me 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...

I went swimming on a school ski trip once, in Italy. The Italian women there were shaving their pits. [screams and hides]

I havent been in a public pool since I read (on here, you beasts ) that there is a layer of pee, snot, period blood and poo crumbs.
I am a good but careless swimmer and used to find myself swallowing water on a regular basis.

Fluke

One of my favourite MN threads from years ago was about what grown women do in gym changing rooms. For instance drying their fanjo hair.

Will try and find it in Classics. It's a corker.

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

I laughed too!

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

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.

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

Gym Minge thread

Topiary

/helpful

Ta v much

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.

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.

Nostress noooooo!

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!

.... 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.

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.

Ewww!

At middle-class minge

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!

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!

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.

Urine is not sterile once it leaves the human body!

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.

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

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?

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.