What is the grossest/most interesting/most unusual thing you have seen in the pool while practicing? For example, I counted six dead roaches floating in the gutter at the end of lane five today...
Freshmen year college training trip in Barbados. The first day there one of the older (but clearly not wiser) guys on the team decides it would be a good idea to fall asleep on the beach for an hour. He got roasted. Major blisters everywhere. The next few days at practice, huge hunks of his blistered skin will fall off and be floating in the pool. Nasty in the extreme. I got one in my face and freaked out.
For some reason, the pool I swim in usually has bandaids drifting around on the bottom. I always do a bandaid count in my lane and keep swimming, just to hold the anal retentiveness at bay. The best/worst day so far is thirteen. In my lane. :chug:
Ewww....
At my backyard pool, I've had these:
* Dead rat large floater
* Alive and bad-tempered cottonmouth (poisonous) that tried to strike me
Outdoor practice pool, witnessed first thing in the morning:
* Dirty baby diaper floating in the pool
Indoor practice pool
* College coed who "did not realize" that her tight thin white T-shirt and undies would be revealing when wet during public lap swim. When offered a kickboard to screen herself, she got out of the pool at the far side & took the long walk to the lockerroom and held the kickboard so everything was still on display.
Indoor practice pool, not witnessed (thankfully):
* Age-group swimmer with diarrhea who pulled his swimsuit down and let it go in the vicinity of the pool gutter. The pool was closed for 24 hours afterwards.
At the SPMA SCM Regionals in December before one of my races a mouse was found swimming in my lane.
"Ejected from the meet for not having a current USMS card."
Some fond memories from age group days:
-Dead mouse/ceiling tile/asbestos insulation falling into lane during middle of kick set.
-Dead frogs in gutter of outdoor pool.
-A hair extension at bottom of pool that was thought to be a bracelet.
-Code brown on the waterslide.
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried!
When I was a lifegaurd one time I had to get in the pool and check out if the leaves in the pool were leaves or diarea...it was diarea.
Also when i used to life gaurd, one of the other guards peed into the pool while standing on the deck. I didn't see this happen though. But if you think about it, its the same thing as if you were in the pool and peed but it somehow seems grooser.
When I was a lifegaurd one time I had to get in the pool and check out if the leaves in the pool were leaves or diarea...it was diarea.
Also when i used to life gaurd, one of the other guards peed into the pool while standing on the deck. I didn't see this happen though. But if you think about it, its the same thing as if you were in the pool and peed but it somehow seems grooser.
We all know it happens, but we don't need to see it happening.
