Confronted swimmer for pool hygiene

[LindaYog]

My gym has a pool which I’m a regular user of - there are visible signs stating you must shower prior to going in the pool or using the spa facilities.

This afternoon, I witnessed a woman exit the toilet after spending a few minutes in there, wash her hands and proceed to poolside. She did not shower and went straight in to the pool which was busy with families in being the summer holidays.

I (very politely) pointed out to her that there is a requirement to shower prior to using the pool and she simply shrugged her shoulders and looked away.

I wouldn’t usually have said anything, but it’s the fact I know she was using the toilet (and for that length of time, it was clearly not for a pee!) so for me it shows a complete lack of disrespect. Before anyone asks, I know she was in there for that long as they are visible from the changing area.

Can you believe the cheek of some people!!

Swim nappies are only designed to hold poo. The idea is that if they wee, the pool chemicals will handle it.

Best IMO not to swim in any public (or membership only) pool, if you’re going to be thinking of that water sloshing around any unwashed bumholes/ willies/fannies and any such micro-particles coming anywhere near you. Even in the sea, I’m afraid to say, you’re likely to have particles of fish poo sloshing around in the water. Or even seal poo, if you’re in that sort of area.

Swim nappies don’t keep wee in! The wee leaks right out. They are designed to keep poo in. Google it

How much shit do you think the average person gets on their bum that you think a shower is going to be necessary after they've been to the loo and wiped? And also, stop timing other people's toilet visits to try and work out what they were doing in there - it's fucking creepy.

A quick stand under the shower while wearing swimwear achieves literally nothing before getting into a pool, and certainly doesn't rid someone's bumhole of bacteria. The shower rule is basically just to rinse off things like excess sunscreen, at best, and mostly to pay lip service to people who have an irrational fear of germs. The pool is chlorinated for a reason.

Can’t believe people still don’t realise swim nappies are designed so that they don’t hold water (like a normal nappy would) but are for poo. Otherwise why would you need a swim nappy
Urine is non toxic so gets dealt with my the chemicals

Professional swimmers urinate in the pool!

I don't suppose he'd be allowed to use it 🤣🤣

unwashed bumholes/ willies/fannies

I literally cannot get these words out my head now 🤮.

Sorry!

Same for Canada from me.

And through all of this it never occurred to you that the absolute weirdo was you?
Come on. Watching people in the changing room, timing people in the toilet and watching them shower??
Haven't you realised how wrong this is?
I hugely suggest if you do go to the gym, you concentrate on you and you only and stop watching other people.
It's weird, unnecessary and disgusting to be honest.

Oh, so the op didn’t come back to their thread? Bit odd??

Absolutely. At first I thought they were just a brainless dick. But then I thought about the fact that someone would've had to have been literally stalking a specific person the minute they got in the pool, for whatever reason, and then every movement they made after that. Na, they either knew the person they're talking about and fucking hate them, or it's bullshit lies for a DM article or summat. Nobody is that invested in being weird.

Or if your in Australia Shark poo!

Op you sound weird observing someone in the toilet and demanding they have a shower. Yabu.

To be fair to OP, it IS weird and unhygienic how in this country, after a shit most of us just wipe our bum with toilet paper and then think we’re clean…

I mean if you got shit anywhere else on our body - our hands , our arm, our face, our hair, then no way would we just wipe it off with a bit of tissue, we’d wanna wash it properly with soap to be clean. So is IS weird.

Most of the world uses water and that is better... gets you cleaner and is gentler on you and probably better for the environment too; a bit of water must be better than a lot of paper. I hate bidets, but when we redo our bathroom I'm seriously considering getting one of those hand held jet things...

Do you use your bum to open doors, shake hands, prepare food?

I wipe until the paper comes away clean.

@KimberleyClark

yeh but it’s not clean is it? Do you class your hands as clean if you wipe them with a bit of tissue? Also we’re not talking about opening doors etc we’re talking about getting into a public swimming pool where ideally all parts of your body would be as clean as each other I.e washed with soap and water

Well my morning routine is poo then shower, where my arse gets a good soaping anyway. But if I needed a poo at another time of day I would just wipe, not bother about using water.

Some people use those flushable toilet wipes. Wetting loo roll would just make it disintegrate. And you aren’t handling things with your arse so it’s not comparable to your hands. I like to feel clean after a poo sure, but I’m not going to fret over it in a public pool. It’s a literal soup of other people’s bodily fluids, skin debris and hair. That’s why we use chlorine.

Really?! Where are you, out of interest?

Every pool I've ever been to in the UK has signs up telling you to (many, I'm a keen swimmer and have lived all over the place), and it's not a recent thing, they have done for years.

This thread may have been a wind up but a similar thing happened to me recently (although I hadn’t been for a poo) A friend and I had popped into a pool at a gym and we were about to get into the pool and this woman who was lurking around the shallow end pointed at the sign saying “you have to shower before you get in”
we couldn’t stop laughing and wondered how many people she’d told off that day

Very sad and creepy