All you Y swimmers, I need some advice! Or maybe I just need to rant. Sometimes I swim at a community pool. There's a BIG sign right before you leave the locker room to "shower before entering the pool" and wouldn't ya know it...not everybody does. Invariably, I end up smalling/tasting lotion, grandpa-strength aftershave, hairspray, deoderant and what have you the whole workout. Don't these people realize what they do? How can I make them stop??? I don't understand why they don't shower. I just don't.
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I guess I'm either lucky, or it's the places I swim. At the University Pool, I haven't had the misfortune of smelling unwanted odors (B.O.??) at the pool area or at the locker room. However, the Aquatic Center that's five minutes away from my house is a different story. Being since it's owned by a school district, it's frequently used by High School Swim Teams for morning and evening workouts...
Once when entering the Locker Room (at the School Owned Aquatic Center) to get ready for my workout... Fwuh!!! The distinct (and sometimes overwhelming) scent of teenage funk dominated that locker room and left me in tears. (Literally!) I guess it depends where and when you go swimming.
I guess I'm either lucky, or it's the places I swim. At the University Pool, I haven't had the misfortune of smelling unwanted odors (B.O.??) at the pool area or at the locker room. However, the Aquatic Center that's five minutes away from my house is a different story. Being since it's owned by a school district, it's frequently used by High School Swim Teams for morning and evening workouts...
Once when entering the Locker Room (at the School Owned Aquatic Center) to get ready for my workout... Fwuh!!! The distinct (and sometimes overwhelming) scent of teenage funk dominated that locker room and left me in tears. (Literally!) I guess it depends where and when you go swimming.
