It’s 630am…WHY ARE YOU WEARING COLOGNE TO THE POOL???
it is nauseating, it is NOT a turn on, and I can smell you underwater.
There is a guy at my pool-I can smell him when he comes on deck, before I see him. I kind kinda understand residual cologne on after work if you swim then, but to go and bathe in it before you get in the pool?!?!? WTF? B.O. would be better than that!
I hate when I can taste it!
perfume, cologne, lotion. It all sucks.
I used to swim where there was a woman who was doused in perfume, older lady who only breast stroked so as to not get her hair wet…
Every time I’d pass in the next lane and breathe, I’d get a whiff of her ‘Eau de Salon Mortuaire’ rose flower scent… blech…
I hate to be ‘that guy’ but I think I should say something…like maybe suggest a rule to management? but I doubt he’d comply. Yes sometimes you can taste it!
gross!
I have beend swimming in the outdoor pool of my YMCA and it is not the colonge there it is the oil slick of suntan lotion that i must swim throught
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THIS HAPPENED TO ME TODAY TOO! A guy was standing at the end of the lane next to mine - waiting to tell the person in the lane that he’s going to share with him. Eventually - he gets in the pool and is just hanging on the side, getting his goggles on etc. I get to the end of the lane and do a turn and get a BIG whiff of a horrible cologne. I was thinking - it’s 5:45 a.m. and you bathed yourself in cologne…nice.
i’ll trade you, gladly. i’ll take mr. cologne, and send you mr. REALLY BAD BREATH. this fellow (60-70 range) often swims at the same time i do and i’ve had to share a lane with him once. then, several times, the lane beside him. it’s unutterably killer, horrible, knock-you-over/what on earth do you eat??? breath. and it wafts above the water.
peggy
Yep, happens fairly often to me as well. Totally disgusting. Regardless of time of day, it’s 2009, I can’t believe people still wear cologne and perfume. Isn’t that so 40 years ago?
Garlic breath…yuck! I’ve cut a swim short because the person next to me smelled too bad.
I hate it when the guy in the lane next to me is faster than me. I mean who the hell does he think he is, faster than me at 6am…bastard. 
Or worse still, when you’re taking a whizz in the bathrooms before starting your pool session and you hear someone in one of the cubicles shedding a slimey load that sounds like they have dysentry. From then on you’re hoping that they wiped well and that the pool attendants don’t skimp on the chlorine.
I hate when I can taste it!
perfume, cologne, lotion. It all sucks.
I used to have the same sensation a few years ago, but decided that I shouldn’t be able to taste cologne underwater (from 3 feet away) and that it was probably urine.
Or worse still, when you’re taking a whizz in the bathrooms before starting your pool session and you hear someone in one of the cubicles shedding a slimey load that sounds like they have dysentry. From then on you’re hoping that they wiped well and that the pool attendants don’t skimp on the chlorine.
Did not want to go there. One of the reasons I do not like public restrooms
As some comic (can’t remember who) said: “It’s no wonder cologne rhymes with alone.”.
at least over here in europe (most countries at least, i suppose) people have to or deliberately take a shower before getting in the pool …
probably a question of hygienics, tolerance and respect towards others?
Nasty. Been there. All of the sudden I smell it underwater and look over and there is this hairy chested guy with a gold chain leaning against the wall 2 lanes over!
Its the stuff you cant smell or see that you should worry about.
Nasty. Been there. All of the sudden I smell it underwater and look over and there is this hairy chested guy with a gold chain leaning against the wall 2 lanes over!
Sidebar… you can smell stuff whilst underwater?
It was more like a couple of hundred years ago—when people were covering the smell up as they did not clean themselves…
AXE has got to be the worst. But they are all bad.
Yes there is a rule at every pool you are supposed to shower first, not everyone does.
Sidebar… you can smell stuff whilst underwater?
Taste is 85% olfactory. You just need the odor particles transported from the source (the ther person’s _____) to the olfactory receptor (located in your nose) by a fluid (air/water) so yes you can smell stuff underwater. How do you think sharks know that there is blood in the water?
Great quote by the way!