Fun Signage
So I am taking a deep-water aerobics class. And it’s mostly fun. I enjoy it much more than I thought I would, actually, and look forward to class because I find it relaxing. We have three instructors who take turns, and two of them suck, and one is a delight. Luckily Ms. Delightful (who actually has FUN while exercising, who’d have thought?) is there most of the time, and the drill sergeant (”I can SEE YOU under the water and you DO NOT have your ears over your hips!”) and Mr. Zen (”As you bring your arms down and your legs up, breathe out and feel the explosion of air from your body…” are there less frequently.
Anyway, last night after we were finished, I stayed around longer to do Ms. Delightful’s stretching routine, since I liked it better than Mr. Zen’s and I didn’t want to be sore today. When I got out of the water I noticed that, for once, there were no hairy-backed men in the hot tub - in fact the hot tub was completely empty, so I climbed in for 10 minutes, and it felt delightful. As I got out, and stood letting myself drip-dry for a moment, I started reading the list of hot-tub rules. Now, it had your standard “No diabetics, no pregnant women, no horseplay, no diving (?), no people on prescription meds, no alcohol, etc. But the rule that caught my eye was about halfway down the list. Now, keep in mind that this wasn’t some ‘written in marker’ kind of homemade deal, this was a nicely printed, permanent rules-listing that seemed as if it might be standard at facilities across the country. The rule that took me aback was “No shaving in the hot-tub, due to the risk of blood-borne pathogens”
Huh? Is there some contingent of hot-tub shavers somewhere in American that necessitated this rule? Who ever thought “Let me get my disposable razor and head over to the hot tub! That will be a hoot!” I can’t imagine the circumstances that caused this rule to not only exist, but also be graven in plastic! Who was shaving? Did they bring shaving cream? Was it some kind of erotic thing? They thought that the warm water would be a good environment for that? Blech.
In addition, I note that there was no such rule for the regular pool, so guess what baby-girl is going to be doing next week if class gets boring? OK - no I won’t. But dang. I didn’t know whether to laugh or be extremely grossed out. And of course I had to wake up to this article about the dangers of hot tubs this morning, and be even more grossed out.
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When we first moved here, there was a hot tub in the basement. That’s been filled in, and there is now a weight room there. Why? People were not only caught having sex in it, but leaving behind such momentos as sex toys and protection. Ewwwwwww. So, rather than enforce the no sex rule (which was also engraved on “da rulz”), they got rid of the hot tub.