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Do you enjoy swimming in public pools or do you think it's like sharing a stranger's bathwater?

Posted - August 27, 2017

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  • Both, LoL!
    I like going to the wave pool and using the waterslide, but I heard that chlorine gives you cancer after too much exposure so I probably wouldn't swim everyday.

    The dirty wet floor in the change room is probably the grossest part to me.
      August 27, 2017 1:02 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    I agree. Even if I could be convinced that the pool was OK, I can't imagine walking barefoot to get there and picking up some fungus on my toes.
      August 27, 2017 3:56 PM MDT
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  • 53509

    (every day)

    Two separate words, not one.)
      August 27, 2017 3:57 PM MDT
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  • Sweat and urine and feces, oh my! big hellz to the nope on swimming in a public pool for me. I'm lucj'y to live close to a river,  I swim there. 



      August 27, 2017 1:09 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    Because fish poop and pollution is so much better?
      August 27, 2017 3:55 PM MDT
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  • Please just let me happy swimming in fish poop:( I have enough issue ;)
      August 27, 2017 3:56 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    No one gets E. coli from fish poop, unlike what you find in swimming pools. You're good.
      August 27, 2017 3:57 PM MDT
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  • You're my best friend now!!! Until someone comes along with a shot of vodka.... then you out! I love you till then though ;)
      August 27, 2017 3:59 PM MDT
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  • "Well, I did!"
      August 27, 2017 1:36 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    If that's how you feel about sharing bathwater, I guess I'll invite someone else. :)
      August 27, 2017 3:53 PM MDT
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  • Tricked me again!

      August 27, 2017 3:58 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    B.  You will not find me swimming in any pool that isn't mine.
      August 27, 2017 2:22 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    Smart woman.
      August 27, 2017 3:54 PM MDT
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  • 53509

    I don't enjoy the prospect of getting into any pool, either private or public, based on the way people conduct themselves in there, i.e. the intentional willingness to emit various bodily fluids into the water and the unavoidable fact that unintentionally-released bodily fluids also abound. Save the human soup for someone else, thank you. The chemical cocktail that's added to pools to alleviate the above problems are just as bad as the problems themselves.

    Yick.
    ~





      August 27, 2017 3:56 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    Do you also know that most people don't shower before they get in the pool and are surprised when you tell them they are supposed to? The things that get washed off into the pool water don't bear thinking about.
      August 27, 2017 4:03 PM MDT
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  • 53509

    I believe you and I agree with you. I've had people tell me their silly reasons for not wanting to shower beforehand, and not one of them held water. I knew a swim instructor who told a class of beginners that the local health department regulations required every person to shower before getting into the pool, but that from experience, it was widely known that not everyone would comply, and as such, no one could be forced to do so. 

    ~
      August 27, 2017 4:09 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    It's a good exercise for my immune system to swim in germ infeted water. Always managed to swallow some too, never got sick.
      August 27, 2017 4:34 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    You're pretty tough then.
      August 27, 2017 5:42 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Maybe. I am usually  more concerned about chemicals in food, water and air than germs. 
      August 27, 2017 5:47 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    But the pool is full of chemicals!
      August 27, 2017 5:50 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Yep . I guess a little chemical won't hurt once in a while.  I do most of my time in the water in the Pacific during summer. 
      August 27, 2017 9:45 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    I love swimming in pools but am also quite skilled at denial which lets me block out thoughts of kids in the pool for hours at a time who never get out to use the bathroom.   


      August 27, 2017 4:45 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    It's not just the kids.

      August 27, 2017 5:47 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    I'm sorry what, I can't hear you!

      August 27, 2017 6:19 PM MDT
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