Used Plasters

I go to a gym which has its own pool, but I rarely use it because a few days later I’ve got a runny nose or a bad throat. The other week while I was off work I ventured back into the pool, it gets really quiet between 12.30 and 1.30 when everyone else gets out to have dinner. The pool was nice and empty and I started off enjoying the swim, but after a couple of lengths I came across a brown lump floating on the water’s surface. I swam round it and got out of the pool soon after that. I couldn’t decide what it was. It looked like a big mole had become detached from somebody. Other times I’ve been in the pool I’ve found leaves and used plasters floating about. It does make me wonder if I’m doing more harm going to the gym than good. In the shower I went to put my shampoo in the tray on the wall that I thought was supposed to be for such a purpose. Obviously it’s not meant for shampoo or shower gel, it’s meant for your used plasters and chewing gum. I put my shampoo on the floor, but I do feel unclean after I’ve been to the gym. Many times I grip the handles of the cross trainer to feel them wet, or even sticky sometimes. With the state of the changing rooms I often wonder if I should have a second shower at home.

Shocking in the shower

I had a day off in the week this week and at the gym there was a distinct lack of health and safety. In the changing rooms there were a couple of maintenance men putting stuff up on the wall in the showers. I don’t know how, but there are always soap dispensers and racks for soap and stuff being pulled off the wall in there. So these two had got and extension cable running from the entrance to the changing rooms all the way through to the showers, and as people were still showering they were drilling holes in the wall in some of the adjoining cubicles. Now in the showers there are normally puddles of water going between cubicles and there is a trough which slants the water down towards the drains at each end, which run the length of the showers. On top of this there is all the steam from the showers themselves. All it would have taken was a bare wire on the extension or the drill, and anyone showering in there would have simultaneously been electrocuted. All they would have had to do was to ask people not to shower for ten minutes while they drilled and then removed their equipment.