# Further Swimming pool gripes
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152
**Category:** Unrelated Discussion
**Created:** [July 7, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152 "2019-07-07T19:26:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/1 "2019-07-07T19:26:27Z")
Well here’s my gripe / moan.
We have a very nice local swimming pool with good showers etc. They also have hair dryers for everyones use in the changing rooms.
What i find annoying is people using these to dry their entire body, i mean, really. use a towel for pete’s sake. Its a hair dryer which will no doubt burn out alot quicker when left on max for the 25mins it takes to body dry, not to mention the environmental impact.
Thanks guys, just needed to offload there.
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### Author:  [@skitrz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/skitrz)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/2 "2019-07-08T01:16:19Z")
Having been a lifeguard for several decades, I’ve often observed swimmers using the dryers as you describe. It was usually due to people being cold, the hot showers were in use or the hot water had ran out. It would be fun to watch them use the dryer to warm their lower extremities. lol You could just take extra towels for them next time. 🙃
As a ski instructor I often see people in front of the hand dryers, warming their gloves and bodies.
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/3 "2019-07-08T17:36:30Z")
I can totally sympathise if its mid winter, swimming in a lake.
But its the middle of summer here, showers are nice and warm, and its an indoor pool.
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### Author:  [@yoyodoc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyodoc)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/4 "2019-07-08T18:15:50Z")
If it takes somebody 25 minutes to dry their body with a hair dryer; I would suggest capturing them with a large net and taking them directly to Weight Watchers!
25 minutes? Lol
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/5 "2019-07-08T18:31:56Z")
It gets worse.
Because they’re taking so long, you end up deliberately taking extra time to dry your feet with a towel, so you don’t look like some kind of weirdo hanging around the changing rooms with no good reason, and then berating yourself for not walking straight out without using the hair dryer, and now you’ve waited just enough time that it would look odd not to use the hair dryer.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
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### Author:  [@skitrz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/skitrz)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/6 "2019-07-08T20:40:57Z")
Indoor pool in the summer! That’s just wrong. 😱
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/7 "2019-07-09T18:57:15Z")
Its very local to me. With very nice changing rooms / showers.
We also have a very nice outdoor but its just a little bit farther, and when you’ve been at work all day its a pain to cycle that far. Its also heated so in the winter its mosty toastie (well almost 😀).
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/8 "2019-07-09T19:47:21Z")
Wow just noticed the title changed from Have a gripe / moan to using hair dryers. Must be those pesky editing abilities 😃
I was going to start on my next gripe about litter. Don’t know if i should now, its got nothing to do with hair dryers 😃
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### Author:  [@MarkD](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MarkD)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/9 "2019-07-09T20:29:18Z")
You should, and then add it to the title! Imagine how long it will be!
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### Author:  [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/10 "2019-07-09T20:56:15Z")
Well this is awkward…
I thought _everyone_ used hair dryers to dry off their entire body…
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### Author:  [@MastarMash](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MastarMash)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/11 "2019-07-09T21:24:07Z")
I do a lot of things for a living. I have seen a lot of things to make people turn! Hell, where do we draw the line? Is nothing sacred anymore! The world may never know!
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### Author:  [@gregoryfromearth](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/gregoryfromearth)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/12 "2019-07-10T02:45:04Z")
It took me a while to realize you were talking about corded hair dryers. I didn’t read carefully and thought you meant the wall mounted hand dryers. That seems significantly harder to do.
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/13 "2019-07-10T18:18:11Z")
I’m now having visions of this guy crouching under a wall mounted hand dryer 😃 Which i could forgive because of the comedy value.
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### Author:  [@Damb](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Damb)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/14 "2019-07-10T18:20:16Z")
Unrelated but _kind of_ related
You ever use a urinal to take a shower?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLPi6vgJpG0)
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/15 "2019-07-10T18:24:55Z")
There are alot of similarities between the vid & the hairdryer situation, details of which i will not be drawn on.
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### Author:  [@Damb](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Damb)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/16 "2019-07-10T18:32:15Z")
I’m dead :joy:
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### Author:  [@MastarMash](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MastarMash)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/17 "2019-07-10T19:22:39Z")
Relax, I am not really a business sales man, I just play one on t.v.
Custodian: I no clean. I’m not clean! Ok!
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/18 "2019-07-12T02:53:52Z")
> [@pep65](#):
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> …What i find annoying is people using these to dry their entire body, i mean, really. use a towel for pete’s sake…
I agree. There are a guys at the gym that do it all the time.
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### Author:  [@Z\_Car](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Z_Car)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/19 "2019-07-12T02:57:52Z")
LOL I was also thinking that, I was picturing someone straddling a hand drier.
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/further-swimming-pool-gripes/305152/20 "2019-07-12T03:55:59Z")
> [@Z\_Car](#):
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> LOL I was also thinking that, I was picturing someone straddling a hand drier.
I’ve seen them do the wall mounted hand dryer trick before the gym installed the hand held hair dyers. Either way it’s quite a weird sight when they’re drying the “extremities”. Especially when they seem to linger longer than usual in spots.
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