Does someone you know do this... (gross)

[Laurabearz]

Yesterday a kid pooped in our pool... not a lovely hard poop... Oh no a very, lets just say not hard poop. And the volume... how can a kid that young blow up the place like an adult male, after a trip to WHite Castles.

I rush everyone out, and start freaking. This is bad. BAD... It is the 2nd worse thing a pool owner can go thru....

Meanwhile my friend is like... so what... dump some chemicals in it and you will be able to swim tomorrow... Uh no, we wont be able to swim tomorrow.. this is a very bad thing that happened... it will be at least a couple of days before we will be able to swim... No way he says... no beleiveing me. Shrugs it off.

Then he calls me from work this morning... He says he mentioned this to another freind, and the friend told him how bad it was.... and he believed him.

****This is the latest in a string of events where I will tell him something and it isnt fact, until someone else confirms it...... ***** Do you know someone like that????

Just starting to peeve me out.

Off to scrub the sides of the pool down and shock it once again.

EDITED TO ADD... it is the person who wont take anything I say for fact, unless he then colaborates it with another person issue... not the poop itself.... sorry for the confusion!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

No, never happened to me...ew! I'm sorry.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

That's just gross.

I assume the kid was very young and incapable of controlling his bodily functions? If that is the case, I would request that he either wear an appropriate garment or not swim. Other kids could have gotten sick from it.

Not the kids fault, but you have to be safe.

 

[Jasminesmommy]

yes make swimmers mandatory for kids.

 

[Laurabearz]

I edited my OP to add............ it is the person who never believes me unless someone else confirms what I say issue... not the poop issue...


The poop makes it a more colorful story.

He wont take anything I say as fact.... but a bum on the corner says something and he is all over it....

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

Ah yes -- I know a doubter --- it's my husband.

I will tell him something and he will disregard it, but then when another friend tells him the same thing he will believe it.

The most annoying fact is that he will repeat this info to me like I never said it to him in the first place.

I'm sorry about your pool.

 

[luvmydogs]

As someone who was hospitalized for three weeks last summer with an e-coli infection traced back to our community pool, I feel for you. People have no idea how dangerous an incident like that can be--I'll never go into a pool of any kind ever again.

We were pool owners at one time, and know that just regular upkeep is a lot of work. I hope that never happens to you again.

 

[Laurabearz]

Originally posted by Jasminesmommy
yes make swimmers mandatory for kids.

He had swimmers on.... and plastic pants... but the loose watery stools, shot out the legs and up the back with such force when he came down the slide.... nothing could have held it back.

Poop happens... but my idiot friend... well it is driving me nuts.

 

[Laurabearz]

http://www.cdc.gov/healthyswimming/fecalacc.htm

 

[TerriP]

DH has a friend who does this. He, the friend, actually called me asking for advice about his dog. I told him what I thought, then he proceeded to tell me I was full of poop (only, he didn't use that word) because his vet said it was something else. I was furious...why call me and ask my opinon only to tell me I was wrong???

He did call back about a week later to tell me they got a second opinion and that it looked like I was right. I didn't take his call, I let the answering machine get it. He didn't apologize for telling me I was full of poop, just said the second vet thought it was the same thing I thought and he didn't know what to do now. I let him figure it out himself!

 

[Disney Ella]

My DH does that to me sometimes. I make what I think is a very logical suggestion and he turns it down, yet two months later we are visiting his friend and his friend says the same exact thing and all of a sudden it's brilliant. Drives me crazy. And the poop thing is really disgusting. I would not like to have to clean that!

 

[Hillbeans]

Originally posted by Laurabearz
He had swimmers on.... and plastic pants... but the loose watery stools, shot out the legs and up the back with such force when he came down the slide.... nothing could have held it back.

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LOL - what a visual!

I always have swimmers on my DS, even though he's probably the oldest kid with them on, however it's for that "just in case" moment.

I think your friend should have believed you since you obviously are the pool owner and know what needs to be done in this case. You can be wearing orange, and someone else will say it's blue. That's just the way people are.

 

[KathyTX]

I think you should have invited the friend to come swim (alone) right away to test his knowledge!

 

[spagheddie]

Originally posted by Laurabearz
Yesterday a kid pooped in our pool... not a lovely hard poop... Oh no a very, lets just say not hard poop. And the volume... how can a kid that young blow up the place like an adult male, after a trip to WHite Castles.

I rush everyone out, and start freaking. This is bad. BAD... It is the 2nd worse thing a pool owner can go thru....

Alright I have to ask, you've peaked my curiosity. If someone pitches a loaf (not hard like a rye as you pointed out but a soft white) and that's the 2nd worse thing that can happen to a pool owner, what's the worst?

 

[Sonya]

Ah yes -- I know a doubter --- it's my husband.

I will tell him something and he will disregard it, but then when another friend tells him the same thing he will believe it.

The most annoying fact is that he will repeat this info to me like I never said it to him in the first place.

Mine too.

Sorry about the pool. Your friend isn't helping you?

 

[Beastlover]

I say since your "friend" took such a cool attitude about it, not caring and such, why stay friends with a person like that? I mean, if my child had such a problem, I would have been over there daily helping with the clean up and paying for supplies, etc. THAT is what a friend does.
I'm curious too--what IS #1 worst thing?
Good Luck!

 

[Laurabearz]

Originally posted by spagheddie
Alright I have to ask, you've peaked my curiosity. If someone pitches a loaf (not hard like a rye as you pointed out but a soft white) and that's the 2nd worse thing that can happen to a pool owner, what's the worst?

Someone drowning

 

[Laurabearz]

Originally posted by Beastlover
I say since your "friend" took such a cool attitude about it, not caring and such, why stay friends with a person like that? I mean, if my child had such a problem, I would have been over there daily helping with the clean up and paying for supplies, etc. THAT is what a friend does.
Good Luck!

The friend was not the parent of the child who had the accident. And the examples of him not, I guess, hearing what I am saying, is a quirk of his. He is a kind person, but needs things to be verfied all the time. I am not sure if he double checks everyone, but I have heard him double check other people as well.

 

[Beastlover]

Yep, that would be the #1 accident in a pool....

I must have mis-read....thanks for clearing up!

 

[RitaZ.]

Originally posted by KathyTX
I think you should have invited the friend to come swim (alone) right away to test his knowledge!

I agree with Kathy!

Ignore the guy, don't bother trying to prove to him that your knowledge is correct.