What annoys you the most at public pools?

High chemical content in the pool, It iritates my eyes for the rest of the day.

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2nd is people who invade my swimming space by swimming the wrong direction or something.

the public…

People. I haven’t been to a public pool in years. I didn’t even swim last year because I don’t swim in the ocean in the U.S. and I don’t go to public pools, so I only swim if I know someone with their own pool lol.

When proper fat fuckers wade in, i’m talking hippos in a swimsuit here.
I genuinely want to get out of there as fast as I can.

What @WestRiverrat said.

Also, piss, piss everywhere.

My dad is the biggest people person ever and can’t understand why I HATE public pools. I go to one at the end of our street that’s part of the golf course so you have to be a member to get it. well there was literally a freakin summer camp there. I almost died. I was limping around the pool with my broken foot muttering curse words and hissing at any child who got too close to me.

May pools be the sea too?
Was just thinking of this today…., why do lots of people think that it is of interest to me what they talk about, even when i am fifty meters sitting away from them?
Put a silencer on it for fuck sake.

@rebbel ooh! you reminded me! This girl was in the middle of the pool talking about how her parents gave money to some charity and her mom heard her from her pool chair from like, 75 feet away and screeches, “SHUT IT, AMANDA!” I was like damn woman….

Hordes of bodies snorteling, chorteling, peeing. Ick. I loved the public pool in my teensy town when I was a little kid under 10yrs old but after that, I just couldn’t do it.

That I haven’t found a pool where I can’t splash everyone inside the water.
When I jump .. everyone around me makes room.

Oh not to mention that people pee in the water and are to lazy to walk 15 meters to go to the bath .

Incompetent people that make no effort and get paid.
Since my son is autistic I experienced this for years. Despite that he was always in a private appropriate school.
In some cities they are giving teachers two contracts and if they can’t do their jobs they are dismissed.
NYC pays Teachers to Teach autistic people that have no ability at all and the Psychologist are worse.

@philosopher I’m confused… we’re talking about public swimming pools?

@redfeather i think she read “public schools” instead of pools ;)

@SpatzieLover I think so too…

What annoys me the most are the kids whose parents spend all of their time sunning themselves so the kids decide to latch onto the parents in the pools with their kids.

We try to go to only private pools, but even there it seems as soon as kids see a mom & dad with one kid get in they see an opportunity to get attention.

Just knowing that they’re likely to be filled with all kinds of bacteria from kid’s snotty noses and feces/urine covered under-carriages.

I would say that it ALL annoys me. I refuse to go to public pools because I have serious issues with OPK’s (other people’s kids).

When I used to have to go to public pools that worst part was having to go home again. I never wanted to leave, because I was having too much fun.

I didn’t like the concrete floors or cold showers, either.

turds in the water

Oh, some woman started undressing her 5 year old boy right in front of everyone. I’d never do that, you dot know what kind of creepers hang around and get their jollies from that.

I take my boys to the local pool a couple of times a week and they love it. The things that drive me nuts are the gross bathrooms (seriously if they don’t want bodily waste in the
pool clean the dang bathrooms). The other thing is adults losing their minds when kids accidentally splash them. I totally agree that it is not ok for kids to purposely splash folks who don’t want to be splashed, but it’s a pool you’re gonna get wet!

I hate when people who shouldn’t be wearing a bathing suit are the ones wearing the most revealing ones. It’s really gross.

Also, you do not know what kind of creepy crawlies are running around in there. People pee and poop in there. Uckkk.

I’d honestly rather swim in a mud hole full of snakes.

Muffin tops

Beer Bellies

1) Urine
2) Over Chlorination
3) Screaming children trying to make sure everyone hears how much fun they are having.

I just read this thread and now I am absolutely sure I will not visit a public swimming pool if I can possibly avoid it. Ewww. So many icky things.

I, for all of the reasons above, go only to pools that charge an entrance fee. There are some beautiful free community pools here but I just can’t bring myself to go. Besides I go mainly to swim laps and the community pools don’t keep the kids out of the lanes, let them play anywhere and it is dangerous to have kids jumping on top of you or right in front of you in your lane, etc. So I pay my $4.00 when I go and then can swim in peace.

@rooeytoo Here, our public pools do charge an entrance fee….and we get all of these delightful things. and most of the pools near me charge more than $4USD to get in

There’s one here that just charges a dollar. 2 in winter and they put a huge bubble over it so you can still swim in their outdoor pool and the air is hot and burns your eyes from the chemicals. I went once, never again. Death first.

That’s one major problem with the public pools here. If they are responsible, they add way too many chemicals to make up for mid-day burn off (off the chemicals). If you go in the first half of the day, the chemicals are liable to disintegrate your suit in less than a couple of visits. Imagine what it does to your respiratory system. :/

I’d rather play in the river here and chance slipping on slimy rocks and venomous snakes. (though last time I was there I saw and petted a big king snake so that was reassuring that he was there)

I’d say I’d rather swim or frolic in Lake Michigan, however it is alewives season and uh….NO I’d rather not for now. We do still go for a stroll on the sand away from the dead fish.

We just avoid the pools and the lakes until it’s too hot to avoid.

Just buy a huge wheelbarrow and fill it with water and sit in it. Yes I’ve done that when it was too bloody hot to live. But I live in the south, it’s totally cool ;)

@redfeather That’s so sad, I can’t even laugh at it.

I used to spend my summers in a cooler as a small child. My parents had it in their heads that a cooler was safer than a kiddie pool ;) Man I was so ghetto.

@SpatzieLover me and my cousins shared an old galvanized wash tub.

@redfeather You are supposed to line your pickup bed with plastic and fill it with water. If it is real hot, you can add a block of ice from the Winn Dixie to sit on.

Found a picture

@Blackberry I was 11 and self conscious with my new womanly body budding under my swimsuit so I sat in that damn wheelbarrow in the backyard. Go ahead and judge me! Haha

@WestRiverrat That’s even better. Then you can drive to get an ice cream & a cold bottle of soda

@WestRiverrat my dad would’ve killed me! That’d be way to heavy and break somethin haha

@redfeather you don’t use the truck that runs, use the one up on blocks in the front yard. (You know, the one they took the radiator out of to fix the still.)

Damn. I guess I had it better than I thought growing up. I get sad thinking about some innocent, bright eyed kids sitting in a cooler or wheelbarrow all cramped up lol.

@WestRiverrat I wasn’t that country, we moved from the burbs of Los Angeles out here haha

Here is a pic of how the NT kids use the cooler (esky) for a pool!

Hah! Imagine a little white girl in Wisconsin doing the same thing. Thanks for sharing!

@SpatzieLover – small world hey!

@redfeather and @Blackberry, I think the wheelbarrow idea was inventive! Our parents used to throw a hose out of the upstairs window and turn it on and all the little neighbourhoods would get naked play under it to cool off. Here in oz, we used to turn the garden sprinkler on .. and naked or in bathers, under it the kids would go.

I am just remembering back to @john65pennington’s post about the naked 7 year old in the street, for shame! Lucky our parents didn’t all get arrested!