In an effort to swim closer to home I started going to a community pool nearby. Just as I was about to get in a lane, the young woman in it stopped at the end, hawked something up, and spit it in the gutter. Then she did it again.
The lifeguard to whom I pointed this out said that the gutters empty into the sewer. I don't think so, and even if the water is sent through the filters, is spitting in the gutter now acceptable?
Wasn't when I swam in college 35 years ago, isn't at the (expensive) club I was trying to substitute for. But is this dirty or am I being foolishly fastidious? Your honest comments please!
On a similar note, there's someone in my swim group who blows his nose out in the shower. He holds one nostril closed, blows for a while, then does the other. Today, I was in the shower next to him and asked him to use a tissue. He said, "But I don't have a cold..." There's so many colds and such going around that I don't care if you have a cold, the shower is certainly not the place to be doing that, don't you think?
On a similar note, there's someone in my swim group who blows his nose out in the shower. He holds one nostril closed, blows for a while, then does the other. Today, I was in the shower next to him and asked him to use a tissue. He said, "But I don't have a cold..." There's so many colds and such going around that I don't care if you have a cold, the shower is certainly not the place to be doing that, don't you think?