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...
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A learn to swim student who ate a lot of spinach for dinner. His mother said he just loves spinach. He had a spinch evacuation into the pool. What a mess.
not while practicing, but while cleaning the filters, I've found a bat, 2 snakes and several mouse/moles that had fallen into the pool at night and got sucked into the filter basket.
first time I saw a snake was the last time I opened the lids with my hands.
other than that, while practicing I have seen some pretty "out-of-shape" people in the lap lane next to me.....and I mean really out of shape.....almost not even human.
Not in the pool but under the stands.2 or 3 years ago at the SPMA SCM Dec. meet on Sat there was a pigeon running around.Not too bad but then on Sun there was a rat running around under the stands.
Once, while swimming a long set outdoors, I kept feeling something across my back about every two lengths near the middle of the pool. Eventually, I stopped to find out there was a mouse bobbbing about between the lane lines.
Being young and foolish, I attempted to scoop it out in a double cupped hand full of water, only to get bitten on the fat of my palm. In thrashing to get it off my hand, it flew to safety over two lanes and scampered off into the shrubs.
Unfortunately for me, the coach & guard sent me to hospital, where they advised shots. I declined.
Speaking of "yuck", we'll get these things that appear as mini-jellys kinda bobbing along a foot or two under the surface. Some of 'em can be as big as your thumb! I try to push them into the adjacent lane. I keep my mouth closed for a few laps for fear of swallowing one of the little goobers.
I am hoping that nobody from Walnut Creek Masters chimes in with something really nasty...meet there in 2 weeks.
It's being held at TVM's pool in Pleasanton. I just saved you 40 miles of driving for nothing. :bump:
I had the good fortune to inhale a bandaid that was evidently floating in my lane... There it was, half in my mouth, half draped over my lower lip. Turns out, lip-replacement surgery is not that big a deal.
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