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 think the hygiene question is more important than the perfume one here. I like most of you take a shower or 2 a day, so never really gave a thought to the "shower before entering pool" rule which is posted in most if not all public pools.
However, there are exceptions to us well washed folks. One day I was in the shower with a team mate and I complimented her on her tan. She said she'd been to Malaysia. I said, "Wow! When did you get back?" Reply, "2 months ago! I haven't washed since then, in order to keep the tan."
She wasn't joking. It made me appreciate the pre-swim shower rule!
At the World Championships in Riccione we had a chance to compare the idea of personal hygiene in different cultures. Italians were appalled to see people go into (and come out of) the toilets barefoot. Not done in Italy! You carry that stuff into the pool afterwards!
I think the hygiene question is more important than the perfume one here. I like most of you take a shower or 2 a day, so never really gave a thought to the "shower before entering pool" rule which is posted in most if not all public pools.
However, there are exceptions to us well washed folks. One day I was in the shower with a team mate and I complimented her on her tan. She said she'd been to Malaysia. I said, "Wow! When did you get back?" Reply, "2 months ago! I haven't washed since then, in order to keep the tan."
She wasn't joking. It made me appreciate the pre-swim shower rule!
At the World Championships in Riccione we had a chance to compare the idea of personal hygiene in different cultures. Italians were appalled to see people go into (and come out of) the toilets barefoot. Not done in Italy! You carry that stuff into the pool afterwards!
