Going in the Pool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watch and see how many adults leave the pool to go pee. Few will. I'm just being honest.

They’re probably holding it. Adults can go a few hours without peeing and you can’t be watching them all that carefully!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch and see how many adults leave the pool to go pee. Few will. I'm just being honest.

They’re probably holding it. Adults can go a few hours without peeing and you can’t be watching them all that carefully!

Yeah, no. I’m not getting out and going to the bathroom in a wet bathing suit and having to maneuver it off so I am stark naked in a nasty bathroom. The bathrooms at the pool are absolutely filthy, the floor is wet, and there is toilet paper on the floor. I just relax in a corner of the pool at my leisure, facing out and let it out little by little and swim away. No one is the wiser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch and see how many adults leave the pool to go pee. Few will. I'm just being honest.

They’re probably holding it. Adults can go a few hours without peeing and you can’t be watching them all that carefully!

Yeah, no. I’m not getting out and going to the bathroom in a wet bathing suit and having to maneuver it off so I am stark naked in a nasty bathroom. The bathrooms at the pool are absolutely filthy, the floor is wet, and there is toilet paper on the floor. I just relax in a corner of the pool at my leisure, facing out and let it out little by little and swim away. No one is the wiser.

As opposed to the pool, which thanks to people like you is also full of urine, except rather than touching the bottom of your feet, you are entirely immersed in it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch and see how many adults leave the pool to go pee. Few will. I'm just being honest.

They’re probably holding it. Adults can go a few hours without peeing and you can’t be watching them all that carefully!

Yeah, no. I’m not getting out and going to the bathroom in a wet bathing suit and having to maneuver it off so I am stark naked in a nasty bathroom. The bathrooms at the pool are absolutely filthy, the floor is wet, and there is toilet paper on the floor. I just relax in a corner of the pool at my leisure, facing out and let it out little by little and swim away. No one is the wiser.

As opposed to the pool, which thanks to people like you is also full of urine, except rather than touching the bottom of your feet, you are entirely immersed in it?

The bathrooms aren't chlorinated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch and see how many adults leave the pool to go pee. Few will. I'm just being honest.

They’re probably holding it. Adults can go a few hours without peeing and you can’t be watching them all that carefully!

Yeah, no. I’m not getting out and going to the bathroom in a wet bathing suit and having to maneuver it off so I am stark naked in a nasty bathroom. The bathrooms at the pool are absolutely filthy, the floor is wet, and there is toilet paper on the floor. I just relax in a corner of the pool at my leisure, facing out and let it out little by little and swim away. No one is the wiser.

As opposed to the pool, which thanks to people like you is also full of urine, except rather than touching the bottom of your feet, you are entirely immersed in it?

The bathrooms aren't chlorinated.

+1 hahahaha yes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At what age should kids be reliable about not urinating in the pool? Would you be upset if you found out they did?

our kids never did, at any age 1+

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do shoes off in the house people go to public pools I wonder?

I am a shoes off person in the house but I urinate in public pools. I have done so my whole life

[Anonymous]

Former lifeguard/lifeguard supervisor/aquatics director here.

Just would like to throw this out there, that in 6 years of working around pools, I promise you-- the MAJORITY of 'bathroom related' incidents that we dealt with more often than not were due to adults, not kids. (obviously excluding the baby pool).

If I had to put a number on it, I'd guess that 80% or more of 'code brown' instances where we had to close down and shock the pool(s), were from adults. Particularly the elderly.

Regarding the subject of the thread? I'll say that if you're talking about a pool with a properly maintained chemical regimen (ie an efficient level of free, and not combined chlorine) particularly if it's an *outdoor* pool, with the UV rays from the Sun doing it's magic...you really have nothing to worry about.

Where I'd start to be concerned is the awful sort of smelly, poorly maintained cheapo-hotel type pools that tend to be indoor (harder to keep chlorine in balance).

For a well managed commercial outdoor pool, that gets lots of sunlight however? Zero concern. You're fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former lifeguard/lifeguard supervisor/aquatics director here.

Just would like to throw this out there, that in 6 years of working around pools, I promise you-- the MAJORITY of 'bathroom related' incidents that we dealt with more often than not were due to adults, not kids. (obviously excluding the baby pool).

If I had to put a number on it, I'd guess that 80% or more of 'code brown' instances where we had to close down and shock the pool(s), were from adults. Particularly the elderly.

Regarding the subject of the thread? I'll say that if you're talking about a pool with a properly maintained chemical regimen (ie an efficient level of free, and not combined chlorine) particularly if it's an *outdoor* pool, with the UV rays from the Sun doing it's magic...you really have nothing to worry about.

Where I'd start to be concerned is the awful sort of smelly, poorly maintained cheapo-hotel type pools that tend to be indoor (harder to keep chlorine in balance).

For a well managed commercial outdoor pool, that gets lots of sunlight however? Zero concern. You're fine.

Not a great idea saying there’s zero concern about adults urinating in the pool. Say you have 100 people in and out of pool during a 4 hour period. 80 of them urinate during their time in the pool. You come in to swim during the 5th hour along with about 20 new people, half of them adding their urine to the mix. That’s just gross. Y’all just nasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly none of here were/are swimmers. They pee in the pool all the time. It’s a known thing. I’ve even heard of someone purposely peeing while someone was swimming right behind them because they were annoyed at being followed so closely (the swimming equivalent of riding someone’s bumper). You if you spend a lot of time in pools you learn to just accept that someone is probably peeing in it. It is diluted instantly by the large volume of water in the pool. If you really want to worry about gross things in a pool, think about all the dead skin cells and the formation of chloramines…

This is very disgusting but sadly I believe it. So glad my kid never got into swimming as a sport. Foul.

It’s also a necessity at championship meets, those suits they wear take 20 minutes to get on when they are dry, impossible to get them up and down to pee (at least for girls)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do shoes off in the house people go to public pools I wonder?

I am a shoes off person in the house but I urinate in public pools. I have done so my whole life

Ghetto fabulous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former lifeguard/lifeguard supervisor/aquatics director here.

Just would like to throw this out there, that in 6 years of working around pools, I promise you-- the MAJORITY of 'bathroom related' incidents that we dealt with more often than not were due to adults, not kids. (obviously excluding the baby pool).

If I had to put a number on it, I'd guess that 80% or more of 'code brown' instances where we had to close down and shock the pool(s), were from adults. Particularly the elderly.

Regarding the subject of the thread? I'll say that if you're talking about a pool with a properly maintained chemical regimen (ie an efficient level of free, and not combined chlorine) particularly if it's an *outdoor* pool, with the UV rays from the Sun doing it's magic...you really have nothing to worry about.

Where I'd start to be concerned is the awful sort of smelly, poorly maintained cheapo-hotel type pools that tend to be indoor (harder to keep chlorine in balance).

For a well managed commercial outdoor pool, that gets lots of sunlight however? Zero concern. You're fine.

Not a great idea saying there’s zero concern about adults urinating in the pool. Say you have 100 people in and out of pool during a 4 hour period. 80 of them urinate during their time in the pool. You come in to swim during the 5th hour along with about 20 new people, half of them adding their urine to the mix. That’s just gross. Y’all just nasty.

You clearly need to stay away from public, hel1 any pool. You’re not ready for human contact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly none of here were/are swimmers. They pee in the pool all the time. It’s a known thing. I’ve even heard of someone purposely peeing while someone was swimming right behind them because they were annoyed at being followed so closely (the swimming equivalent of riding someone’s bumper). You if you spend a lot of time in pools you learn to just accept that someone is probably peeing in it. It is diluted instantly by the large volume of water in the pool. If you really want to worry about gross things in a pool, think about all the dead skin cells and the formation of chloramines…

This is very disgusting but sadly I believe it. So glad my kid never got into swimming as a sport. Foul.

It’s also a necessity at championship meets, those suits they wear take 20 minutes to get on when they are dry, impossible to get them up and down to pee (at least for girls)

Dude, if that’s an issue we pee through the suit in the locker shower room. Not in the warm up pool. And certainly not during a race or down the French drain like kids in China pee down the storm drain all the time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former lifeguard/lifeguard supervisor/aquatics director here.

Just would like to throw this out there, that in 6 years of working around pools, I promise you-- the MAJORITY of 'bathroom related' incidents that we dealt with more often than not were due to adults, not kids. (obviously excluding the baby pool).

If I had to put a number on it, I'd guess that 80% or more of 'code brown' instances where we had to close down and shock the pool(s), were from adults. Particularly the elderly.

Regarding the subject of the thread? I'll say that if you're talking about a pool with a properly maintained chemical regimen (ie an efficient level of free, and not combined chlorine) particularly if it's an *outdoor* pool, with the UV rays from the Sun doing it's magic...you really have nothing to worry about.

Where I'd start to be concerned is the awful sort of smelly, poorly maintained cheapo-hotel type pools that tend to be indoor (harder to keep chlorine in balance).

For a well managed commercial outdoor pool, that gets lots of sunlight however? Zero concern. You're fine.

Not a great idea saying there’s zero concern about adults urinating in the pool. Say you have 100 people in and out of pool during a 4 hour period. 80 of them urinate during their time in the pool. You come in to swim during the 5th hour along with about 20 new people, half of them adding their urine to the mix. That’s just gross. Y’all just nasty.

Whatever you may think about how nasty it is or isn’t, I’m simply telling you that the chemicals used in a pool (again, that is correctly balanced) are shockingly effective at killing nastiness. Especially combined with full sunlight.

[Anonymous]

Np

The point still stands, if a critical mass or selfish lazy people pee in the pool there WOULD be big problems and imbalances in the water.

You should also teach your children not to pee in the pool. Anywhere. Sunshine or indoor pool or salt water pool.