We
took Mathew for his first dip in a swimming pool yesterday. Our local leisure
centre does a nice little ‘newborns only’ session every Sunday morning and we
want him to get used to it as soon as possible. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not
expecting him to get a 200metre swimming certificate before his first birthday.
It’s just that I’ve seen a lot of toddlers get freaked out when they’re first
dropped into a pool or the sea, and it would be good if he was spared a
shocking encounter that might scar him for life.
The activity
itself was great, but what happened afterwards left me fuming and despairing
and I must get it off my chest or I’ll end up with an ulcer, or explode with
anger at an employee who hasn’t really done anything wrong but just happens to
be in my way when my internal pot boils over.
The
last time I went swimming, those showers you have on the way back to the
changing room from the pool itself were just there to rinse off the chlorine
before you put your clothes back on. Now, it seems, they are there to be used
for giving yourself and your family a weekly full-body scrubdown.
Honestly
– I’m amazed some of these people didn’t turn up with a basket full of washing.
I’m
sure the first person that did this did it in good faith. They probably thought
“If we take shampoo in with us, we can wash the kids’ hair on the way through
and save them having to get wet again at home by having a bath.” Then, as
happens in every aspect of life it seems, other people spied what happened and,
being the shit-eating sheep that they are, decided to leap onto the idea and
let the swimming pool cover the cost of a big chunk of their water bill.
So can
I just pass on a message to the other people who were there today? Just on the
off chance that one or two of them might be reading this?
“The
showers are NOT THERE for you to shampoo and condition your brood’s hair. Stop
clogging up the drains with your exfoliating body scrubs, stop abusing the
generosity of the owners and STOP HOGGING THE SHOWERS FOR TEN MINUTES you
pr**ks.”
Now
if you’ll excuse me, I really must start work.
RC 15-4-19
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