Pool's closed

[Kheldarson]

All I've got is one question. You are a parent with a small child at the waterpark. Your child needs to go to the bathroom. Should you

A) take them to the bathroom
B) miss getting them on time, so tell somebody about the mess they made, or
C) let your kid go in the pool and then leave it for somebody to find?

C is apparently a fairly common answer at the park. But I can't seem to follow the logic here. Logic would seem to be don't want to interrupt little Johnny's fun, so just let him go and it'll all be fine.

Wrong.

Little Johnny pooping in the pool means now nobody can be in the pool until we clean it up and let the water cycle through. So instead of little Johnny taking a break for maybe 10 minutes so he can use the bathroom properly, everybody gets to sit out for 30-45 minutes while it's cleaned.

Further, trying to get back in the pool while the lifeguards are standing in front of the entrance to the pool is not helpful either.


More ranty than sucky, but we had to close two pools today due to this issue, and I stepped into some of it the other day. I just don't get it.

[CTB]

Umm.. eww!!

[ArcticChicken]

I'm choosing to believe that the toddlers would rather play in the pool thnas go to the bathroom, so they don't tell anybody. There's no excuse for the parents not telling you, though.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

*cue Jaws theme song:

dah dummm dah dummm dah dumm dah dumm dah dummm...

Spaulding! NO!

DOODY!

[mattm04]

That happened at a water park I was at last summer. I had just gotten out of the pool when I hear a scream. I turn around and see a mass of people swimming for the edges. This little kid and mother are just standing their looking at this brown cloud in the water. Eventually they get out while people mill about the pool deck waiting to hear how ling the pool will be closed. The mother tells a life guard and a few park employees standing near a cart of pool chemicals and clean up supples they had just brought out, "he said he had diharrea, but I thought he was joking."

I decide it was time for a shower.

[Parrothead]

That was how the e. Coli outbreak happened at White Water in Atlanta a couple four years ago. Which is all the more incentive for me to never go to a water park. (I hate getting wet.)


Edit: Hundredth post!

[Ringtail Z28]

That was how the e. Coli outbreak happened at White Water in Atlanta a couple four years ago. Which is all the more incentive for me to never go to a water park. (I hate getting wet.)

I remember hearing about something like that happening here in California, but it was Hepatitis.

Either way I think that all babies and toddlers should be banned from places like that. Not that I would go to one of these places anyways since I hate crowds.

[blas]

And I thought my biggest worry at water parks was Planter's Warts.

[Catwoman2965]

I remember hearing about something like that happening here in California, but it was Hepatitis.

Either way I think that all babies and toddlers should be banned from places like that. Not that I would go to one of these places anyways since I hate crowds.

Ewww...that's nasty! There's a reason why babies and toddlers who are NOT toilet trained are not allowed in pools on cruise ships. I love the mom's response "i thought he was joking" - yeah, right...

[the_std]

*cue Jaws theme song:

dah dummm dah dummm dah dumm dah dumm dah dummm...

Spaulding! NO!

DOODY!

Hee hee hee... And then Bill Murray eats it...

*juvenile snicker*

[Apathy]

My wife and I decided this summer that we need a pool when we get a house. We want one now (pool), but we're not going to a public pool. I have before, but it's not my cup of tea, and this is one of the many reasons.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah, this right here is why I always have the vague (and sometimes not so vague)feeling that public pools make me feel like I'm swimmng in a toilet.

[Kheldarson]

That happened at a water park I was at last summer. I had just gotten out of the pool when I hear a scream. I turn around and see a mass of people swimming for the edges. This little kid and mother are just standing their looking at this brown cloud in the water. Eventually they get out while people mill about the pool deck waiting to hear how ling the pool will be closed. The mother tells a life guard and a few park employees standing near a cart of pool chemicals and clean up supples they had just brought out, "he said he had diharrea, but I thought he was joking."

I decide it was time for a shower.

We had that happen too. I wasn't on stand for the particular area, but it's one of our kiddie pools and it got shut down for 5 hours. When I finally asked a supervisor why, he said a kid had diarrhea. So we had no guests in that pool for five hours, meaning that no one went in the rest of the day.

Plus side, nobody really had to do any work at those spots...

[AdminAssistant]

Just....EW. Mom's a huge hydrophobe? Aquaphobe? Scared of water. As in, "If I take a bath I might drown in the bathtub" kind of way. She sent me and Big Sis to swimming lessons, because she wanted us to learn, but she couldn't watch us in the pool.

I went to Hurricane Harbor (the waterpark that's part of Six Flags - St. Louis) once. The slides were kind of fun, but I saw some things in the wave pool that can't be unseen. And I got blisters on my feet so bad that my bf had to carry me to the first aid station. Not fun at all.

[mattm04]

Imagine how much, um "stuff", must be in this pool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inA-3...eature=related