To go home in a wet swimsuit

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My question is, does anyone ever go home straight from the pool and get showered/changed at home instead?

I used to do this from an open air pool in our local village, as did all the other locals as that was the deal.

However, we've relocated and we have a city centre swimming pool/leisure centre and I want to get out of the pool, pull on a dry robe and drive home. Does anyone else do this or am I having one of my moments?

I’ve never done it but having read this I might!!

I don't swim but sauna. I just dry off throw my clothes back on over my cossie and go home. Everything is put straight into the washing .machine and I jump in shower.

I do it in summer but not winter

On another note I think people look ridiculous wearing dry robes in Sainsbury's

I swim all year round and wear shorts loose t shirt and flip flops, even in snow. Also can’t stand wrestling wet clothes on. After swimming swimsuit off and loose clothes on, shower at home. Top tip a plastic bag for the wet swimsuit so it doesn’t wet your car.

Yes, I do this, in a XXL hooded towel rather than a dry robe. It's a 5m drive, and the showers at the gym are a tepid drizzle that couldn't wash your hair in forty minutes.

I seem to be alone in doing this, but I'm fucked if I'm changing twice, because I definitely need to shower at home as well.

I take off swim suit and only wear dry robe and shower at home.

I do. I swim in a lake about 20 mins walk from home. I don’t like stripping off on the shores of the lake so I just stick my clothes on over the top of my costume. I don’t think anyone would notice, or care.

I used to - but the temperature was 30-45C, so I threw on a summer dress and crocs and walked home.

For whoever asked - because it meant I only needed to carry a front door key, and there was AC at home!

I live by the sea and I see lots of people doing it after a sea swim, although I think more of them are walking home afterwards rather than driving. But if the robe genuinely won't let water seep through I don't see why you couldn't do it for driving.

I take my cossie off (in a changing room obviously) and put the dry robe on to drive home. Prefer to shower with all my products and a clean floor at home.

In the summer I swim outdoors but if really hot I bung loose fitting shorts and t.shirt/or dress on and do the same (instead of dry robe).

Yes but they are feeble for washing hair, often the wrong temperature, slightly grubby, and I can’t be arsed to take absolutely everything I would need (shower gel, shampoo and conditioner, hair product, HRT gel, deodorant, face cream etc). So much more pleasant to do at home in a clean, well equipped bathroom.

Why? I often go to Tesco after a swim as I’m hungry to get some food before going home
yes I might be nowhere near the sea but I’ve been swimming in a reservoir

I've had a Stroke and taking the swimming costume off is a fucking nightmare. I put on tracksuit bottoms on (the thick cottony ones) and drive home with them and a swimsuit. I like the idea of crocks but I can only walk and drive in my trainers.

I do sometimes, but I live five minutes walk away, path not along the road. I don’t own a dry robe but throw an old dress over my swimwear and a fleece (if it’s cold i would change properly)

ok but don’t you all end up with a wet bottom

I do this. Happily walk home in a dryrobe and crocs but wouldn't like to drive in the bulky dryrobe so I have a microfibre towel type robe for the car and I put a neoprene cover on my car seat - Osprey do a good one. No guddling about in the changing room and no damp car seat.

Couldn't. Chafing and thrush would follow.

I take my baby swimming alone and there’s no where to safely put him down and leave him to get myself ready. I one handedly get my swimsuit off and then throw on a loose dress. The priority is a warm and dry baby, I can get myself sorted at home.

We do this after swimming lessons - the changing room at the pool is always packed full, and the showers are communal, weak, and only run for about 20 seconds per button press before switching off. Much better to put on a dry robe and go straight home to have a nice hot shower in our own bathroom, with all of our normal toiletries (and no tinea fungus!)

My kids do this after swimming, but I don’t - if I get a flat tyre or rear ended by the car behind I don’t want to step out the car naked in a dry robe to deal with it! Then there was the time the local level crossing was stuck down for two hours, leaving me stuck behind it - I wouldn’t have wanted to sit in a wet swimsuit for that long!

The changing faff is a key reason why I loathe swimming though.

I do this in the summer. At the beach I’ll dry off enough that I can just chuck a loose dress on over it.

Not when it’s cold or wet though. I do shower at the pool but unless I’m going somewhere after I’ll just put a vest, joggers and hoody on and get changed at home. Putting a bra on when still slightly damp is hell.

The showers at the pool are usually hot and there’s plenty of space to change. I collect miniatures from my beauty box or freebies for my gym bag so it’s easy.

YABU for not telling about this before now- why have I never done this 🤦‍♀️

Why? Because it looks ridiculous to me. Like when people are in nightgowns doing school drop off. But that is just my opinion and it shouldn't really matter to you. You do you.

I do this. Take off the swimsuit and chuck on old clothes. Home and a hot shower without strangers' hair everywhere