Showering Before Getting in Pool

Thought of this while reading the "Swim Rant" thread. Okay-- totally anonymous poll: do you shower before getting in the pool for swim practice? In Ontario it is a (Provincial) Health REQUIREMENT not only in Public pools but in Clubs as well. However, as you might have guessed, hardly ever enforced. I do it to avoid the remote but possible eventuality of being embarrassed by being called on it (by either a zealous lifeguard or an overzealous fellow swimmer.) I once had to call the lifeguard's attention to a swimmer whom I saw in the shower area (I was finishing my swim and he had walked through the shower area directly to the pool area —without showering—) not because he hadn't showered but because his body was covered in open, red and obviously irritated, oozing sores. He was asked to leave the pool. (The Health signs posted could not be missed by a blind person's seeing-eye dog.)

Thought of this while reading the "Swim Rant" thread. Okay-- totally anonymous poll: do you shower before getting in the pool for swim practice? In Ontario it is a (Provincial) Health REQUIREMENT not only in Public pools but in Clubs as well. However, as you might have guessed, hardly ever enforced. I do it to avoid the remote but possible eventuality of being embarrassed by being called on it (by either a zealous lifeguard or an overzealous fellow swimmer.) I once had to call the lifeguard's attention to a swimmer whom I saw in the shower area (I was finishing my swim and he had walked through the shower area directly to the pool area —without showering—) not because he hadn't showered but because his body was covered in open, red and obviously irritated, oozing sores. He was asked to leave the pool. (The Health signs posted could not be missed by a blind person's seeing-eye dog.)