Now that summer is here, and we’ve already determined in another thread that almost everyone here pees in the shower, I have to ask-
Do you pee in the pool?
I sure do. I can’t imagine getting out of the pool, drying off, walking to the bathroom, urinating, then getting back in the pool. Why bother?
I would not urinate in the bathtub, however, as it seems the urine would be much more concentrated. If I owned my own pool, I don’t think I’d pee in it either, but I can’t be sure about that.
In fact my neighbor almost caught me last night. He had this really long pool party, so I had to hold it for a long time, and I’d been drinking lots of beer all day. I thought I would burst! When the party was over, I ran over and was taking care of my business when he came out to clean up the picnic table. I’m very lucky that he’s nearsighted.
I’m operating under the assumption here that the pool I’m in has been urinated in by someone at some point. This means that I will get pee on me, and I will have to shower when I get out no matter what. This being the case, it doesn’t make sense to get out and head to the bathroom to pee.
But if i KNEW that no one ever peed in the pool, I wouldn’t want to contaminate it- or myself.
Eeew. Maybe a few times when I was a kid, but now, no. As a grown-up, I can usually hold it until I’m going to go in and shower. Otherwise, I go into the locker room and use the toilet and come back. Yeah, it’s a pain to pull the wet suit back on, so that’s why I save it until the end if at all possible.
The pool I usually swim in is a YMCA pool, and they are sticklers for keeping it clean. They don’t even allow those disposable swim diapers without plastic pants, and, last summer, they banned people from bringing in their own pool toys because they brought in too many “outside contaminants” from other pools. (:mad: 'cause now we have all these pool toys with nowhere to go!) I’ve also noticed that the chlorine there doesn’t sting my eyes like it does in some other pools, so I’ll certainly do my part to keep the pool nice by making myself and my child get out and use the toilet if necessary.
Never. The worst I used to do as a kid would be to get out of the pool in my backyard and sit on the lawn and secretly pee there. But I think I stopped that when I was 4 or so.
Nope. I pee in the shower, in the ocean, in rivers and streams, even against a tree if I’m hiking and have to go, but I never pee in the pool. I operate under the assumption, however ill-formed, that the pool is spotlessly clean and free of pee, and then I hold it.
I remember I spent a week at girl scout camp once, and I was in polarbears- which meant getting up 15 minutes earlier, making the trek to the lake, and jumping into the freezing water and immediately jumping out, and then balling up your wet bathing suit and carrying it around with you all day in a plastic bag (as there was no time to return the cabin) so that it mildewed between the morning and free swim. Anyway, it was a poorly planned camp and trekking to the latrines was always an inconvenience to someone. Therefore, in order to avoid having to use the bathroom at bad times, I always tried to pee in the lake first thing in the morning (although with the shock of freezing water, sometimes it was hard).
It’s science class time! Today we’re going to learn about… Dilution.
(Yaaay!)
Now, you see those glasses of water in front of you? Take a sip. It’s not salty, is it?
(Little heads shake)
That’s because there’s no salt in it! Now take a little spoon of the salt next to you, stir it in and take another sip. Is it salty now?
(Chorus of yes)
Now put another spoon in. It’s twice as salty now, isn’t it? Isn’t that neat kids?
(Little kid stands up at the back)
“This is lame. We’re like, almost 8. We know about this stuff.”
Well Surreal doesn’t seem to, do you Surreal?
I mean really. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if one person pees in the pool it’s unpleasant, so if two people do it it’s twice as unpleasant. Besides which, contrary to your expectations, yours is not the only opinion which matters: There are actually other pople using the pool, and I don’t think they much appreciate your peeing in the pool.