# Mothers, please teach your daughters... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472 "2011-05-02T13:51:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/181 "2011-05-06T20:51:05Z")
And eastern Canada ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/182 "2011-05-06T21:14:41Z")
And Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/183 "2011-05-07T03:01:12Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > How old are you? It’s a pretty common expression. I’ve never heard this one before either. I’ve heard some of the others, but not all of them. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/184 "2011-05-07T03:17:42Z")
I’ve never heard that particular euphemism. I’ve lived in 4 states and traveled throughout Europe several times. I’m 48, btw (as if that matters). I’d say it’s not in common use here in IL. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/185 "2011-05-07T04:18:41Z")
Another Illinoisan chiming in to say that I’ve never heard that expression before. I thought that not using the handicapped stall unless you needed it (wheelchair, small child, etc) was a given. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/186 "2011-05-07T07:41:13Z")
Gee, I mean it’s just such a cute metaphor, makes me wonder what the hell I’ve been doing all my life that I haven’t heard of it before. I guess my friends have never been clever enough to come up with such creative descriptions for taking a shit. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/187 "2011-05-07T07:51:04Z")
> [@markm](#): > > Dropping the kids off at the pool > Punching a grumpy > Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl > Stocking the pound with brown trout > Pinching a loaf > Baking bread (or baking a loaf) > Growing a tail > Answering nature’s call/Taking the one call that can’t be sent to voicemail > Catching up on some reading/heading to the reading room/going to do some heavy thinking > Going to see a man about a horse (usually just for pissing) > Peeling paint/Peeling wallpaper > Launching a torpedo/launching a brown torpedo > Dropping a bomb/deuce/log/load > Planting dingleberries > Making room for \/making room for another beer > Breaking the seal (first piss of a night of drinking) > Testing the plumbing > Fighting brown snakes You forgot “having a brown baby boy” and “making brownies”. Incidentally I’ve heard ‘dropping kids off at the pool’ numerous times, and I would have said it was a common expression. I’m sure \*\*Autolycus \*\*wasn’t trying to be obscure, especially since the topic of the thread was rather well established at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/188 "2011-05-07T08:18:26Z")
Obligatory [xkcd](http://xkcd.com/168/). ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/189 "2011-05-14T02:15:22Z")
Ha ha, just heard the “dropping the kids at the pool” expression on Friday Night Lights, and naturally thought of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/190 "2011-05-14T05:28:03Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > Ha ha, just heard the “dropping the kids at the pool” expression on Friday Night Lights, and naturally thought of this thread. I’m behind in the episodes. Did they use it to mean pools or toilets? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/191 "2011-05-14T05:56:03Z")
> [@kbear](#): > > I have no dog in the fight but in all my 49 years, I have never heard the expression taking the kids to the pool to mean taking a dump. > > (never heard of half the expressions on that list either) > [@Broomstick](#): > > If that’s the case, why, in nearly 50 years on this planet, having been in a dozen states and five countries on two continents, have I never heard it before? This is what happens when people fail to watch **Space Ghost Coast to Coast**. ::shakes head sadly:: If only you’d watch that show, you would have learned this expression in your mid-30s. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/192 "2011-05-14T06:33:58Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I’m behind in the episodes. Did they use it to mean pools or toilets? I’m betting toilets. It’s always toilets. How many times have I come tearing down the stairs, grasping my bathing suit and towel because I heard my dad remark to my mom, “Whelp. Time to drop the kids off at the pool” only to find my dad standing in his boxer shorts, grimacing and rubbing his belly with one hand and gripping the newspaper in the other. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/193 "2011-05-14T06:38:54Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I’m betting toilets. It’s always toilets. How many times have I come tearing down the stairs, grasping my bathing suit and towel because I heard my dad remark to my mom, “Whelp. Time to drop the kids off at the pool” only to find my dad standing in his boxer shorts, grimacing and rubbing his belly with one hand and gripping the newspaper in the other. I have a cold, and you just gave me a coughing fit from laughing. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/194 "2011-05-14T12:36:33Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I’m behind in the episodes. Did they use it to mean pools or toilets? Toilets. If it was literally dropping kids off to swim, then it wouldn’t be an expression, you know? One of the coaches was talking to the Special Teams players, and said when Special Teams comes on the field, that’s when people go get something to eat and drop the kids at the pool. lol. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/195 "2011-05-14T15:35:17Z")
The latter part of this thread has made me laugh until I was “touching cloth”. The tortoise’s head has poked out. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/196 "2011-05-15T05:28:50Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > Toilets. If it was literally dropping kids off to swim, then it wouldn’t be an expression, you know? Jesus, two pit threads and now you’re all mean? ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/197 "2011-05-15T05:32:58Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > The latter part of this thread has made me laugh until I was “touching cloth”. The tortoise’s head has poked out. Prairie Doggin’ ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/198 "2011-05-15T05:41:14Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > Correct me if I’m being whooshed, but you do know that “dropping the kids off at the pool” is a euphemism for taking a dump, yeah? As is “a pressing engagement” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472/199 "2011-05-15T14:02:25Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Jesus, two pit threads and now you’re all mean? Oh dear, in my head that didn’t sound mean. I guess I should have added a :). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-please-teach-your-daughters/580472.md?page=9)