Tub shops? We used to rent a hot tub with a mattress, tv and radio for 3 hours on the weekends, bring munchies and get drunk. Did you hang out in tub shops?

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Queasy-Trip1777@reddit

Wait....you RENTED a place to go get drunk for 3 hours because it had a hot tub and a mattress? Lemme guess....you're not a real producer, and there is no job?

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In my hometown there was a place to rent hot tubs by the hour. I used it for muscle relief every so often while playing sports. A couple times I took a girlfriend with me, but no real funny business. They were always kept super clean and on the up and up.

But then it changed owners and got significantly worse. It started to attract a second kind of rental choice and that's where I noped out. It eventually got busted for facilitating prostitution and went out of business.

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BigFatHonu@reddit

I've heard that kind of place referred to as a "soak and poke."

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ToyotaPartsGod@reddit

yo wtf?

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marihada@reddit

I forgot about these! My sister worked at one in Seattle in the 80’s.

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Annual_Monk_9745@reddit

Tubs! A friend’s older brother worked there. We teased him a lot about what he was mopping.

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RockShowSparky@reddit

You know how much money the average jizz-mopper makes per hour?

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christopherDdouglas@reddit

Tubs. Grew up in North Seattle. We all knew, don't go to Tubs.

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critic2029@reddit

This feels like a very WI or MN idea.

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Brym@reddit

We do have a spot like this near me on Chicago’s South Side, so Midwest.

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critic2029@reddit

This makes sense.

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rosie_thechaosqueen@reddit

It was a MI thing. Kind of. There were a couple in the city where I grew up. But no mattresses.

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anannanne@reddit

Minnesota here. No “tub shops,” but I remember the neighbors renting a hot tub for my dad’s 40th birthday. It arrived on a trailer and they parked it in the driveway.

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VehementVillager@reddit

Not a MN thing... I have no clue what a "tub shop" is, and how you'd rent one as OP is describing.

Given the amount of confusion in the replies, I'm guessing this must be a VERY region-specific thing, or OP left out specific context (like noting that it entails getting a hotel room that has a hot tub, or something like that).

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shylock2k202@reddit

Up until about 10 years ago there was a place called the Hot Tub Club. I never visited the place myself but apparently you could rent out a room with a hot tub and have a party. I’m sure it was a family friendly place that was extremely clean and hygienic, at least that’s what I like to believe.

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Sea2Chi@reddit

Remember that show blind date? Where they'd film a couple going on a blind date and add funny captions about what they were thinking? They'd always go to one of those places.

My high school girlfriend and I would watch that a lot and were always confused about how a place like that existed. There were hot tubs at the city pool, but neither of us had ever heard of renting a private hot tub room before.

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Angis3000@reddit

That was the best fucking show

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msmoneypenpen@reddit

It seriously was.

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

I watched a lot of Blind Date back in the day. And Ship Mates, which was on immediately afterwards. The premise of Ship Mates was insane - they made people go on a three day blind date on a cruise ship.

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HappyKadaver666@reddit

That makes sense! I always wondered where they were finding all these hot tubs for those dates too!

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Baked_Potato_732@reddit

That was such a weird show but I laughed my ass off when they referenced it in Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

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flotusspunkmeyer@reddit

Yes! This was definitely a feature from Blind Date. I can’t remember if they had a room, too though. The fee seems too high for that show😆

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msmoneypenpen@reddit

Omg they used to have one in LA in the early 2000’s…it was on a dating show all the time

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NeedItRightMeow@reddit

It was called Splash relaxation spa. Had to look it up!

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msmoneypenpen@reddit

Nice work!

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Ok_Percentage5157@reddit

Oh wait... Is this the blind date show another user referenced? On mtv?

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msmoneypenpen@reddit

Yep Blind Date. But I don’t think it was MTV

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dharmavoid@reddit

I've literally never heard of this. Did OP just open a Tub rental shop?

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onion4everyoccasion@reddit

I have to admit that my town had one and I banged a girl there... still banging that same (and only) girl more than 25 years later so you tell me if it "worked"😂

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Few-Statistician8740@reddit

Moms been dead for 15 years now dad. Seriously fucking bury her already!

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prosequare@reddit

Jesus Christ dad

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onion4everyoccasion@reddit

If you want to tell me to 'get a room.' I did-- a hot tub room-- a couple decades ago

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tryanloveoneanother@reddit

I guess I'm gross but being able to rent a hot tub sounds awesome!!

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joshmoney@reddit

Never heard of such a thing. Sounds kinda gross tho

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

Hotels have tubs and pools. They're tested and cleaned and there's never been an issue

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Gullible_Rich_7156@reddit

Yeah I own a hot tub (that I maintain myself) and I don’t go in public hot tubs. Pools, sure, as you really have to be negligent for there to be a real problem, but when hot tubs are not meticulously maintained with consistency you might as well just go swim in the headworks of your local sewage plant.

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theelephantupstream@reddit

My husband and I used to have a hot tub that we maintained meticulously. Had it for years with no issues. Then, I got folliculitis from it—everything from the neck down was covered in pustules and I had to take heavy-duty antibiotics for weeks. We do not have a hot tub anymore lol.

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Camandchat@reddit

Fucking hell you just scared the shit out of me, I'm going away in 2 weeks and was so looking forward to the hot tub

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Darkstar67@reddit

Don’t live scared. Enjoy your hot tub time. I’ve been soaking for decades and I ain’t been burned yet

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theelephantupstream@reddit

Ok in fairness, I later discovered i have a mild autoimmune condition so I’m sure that was a factor. I used that hot tub every week for 5 years and I was fine until then. If it smells like chemicals you’ll prob be fine—the odds are on your side. Shower right after and enjoy your vacation!

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Camandchat@reddit

It's at a nice private condo with maintenance on site, it's not a hotel. I'm thinking it'll be ok. I friggin hope so

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Gullible_Rich_7156@reddit

I suppose you could buy some test strips at any store that sells pool supplies and test the water before you go in. As long as the total chlorine/free chlorine numbers are good you should be fine.

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AirportHot8094@reddit

The fact that you believe and trust them is saying something. You think a retail worker is cleaning human fluids out between each guest? Lol

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BoudiccasWrath79@reddit

Oh you sweet summer child.

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spaketto@reddit

My husband, kids, and I got the worst pink eye I've ever had from a hot tub at an expensive resort where we stayed in a cabin with its own personal hot tub. The pink eye lasted for days and was super painful. That was a few years ago and I haven't been back in once since.

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Ionlydateteachers@reddit

I caught cellulitis from a tub in a Topeka Kansas hotel once. It was a nice historical place that you'd think would keep up on that stuff. 2 of 4 people got really sick. I don't trust most tubs anymore.

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SlimeTribe@reddit

Im almost 100% sure there has been plenty of issues...

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ughyoujag@reddit

No. No, man. Shit no.

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PoopingDogEyeContact@reddit

I dunno, renting a hot tub sounds like something you’d do with two chicks at the same time man

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ughyoujag@reddit

And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money

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bokatan778@reddit

Why is this photo the absolute perfect response to this post

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ughyoujag@reddit

It’s wild how many things in the world bring this reaction from me these days

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Bubbly_Wave_4049@reddit

I was just about to type this lol! Most accurate reply ever!🤣

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bokatan778@reddit

Like I can hear his voice 🤣

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IkidIgoat@reddit

Sounds like an hourly motel with a hot tub? For uh, business?

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Vintage_Visionary@reddit

Do they charge by the hour? JK

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OkieRising@reddit

Seconded

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spuldup@reddit

A whole hour! After 15 minutes in the tub I'm loopy, then just 2 minutes on the mattress is enough. How much for 20 minute session?

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

Sex drink, dance, fuck, listen to music

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spuldup@reddit

It was the best of times, it was the...best of times.

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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

Never heard of this and it sounds kinda weird, like going to a Walmart and getting drunk except getting to be in someone else's urine.

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BlackCatArmy99@reddit

Dick Broth

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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

Wasn't he a senator?

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snuffy_smith_@reddit

Nah he became the VP of the US

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peachwafffle@reddit

Not just urine! Liquefied smegma broth, ass crack water, and foot tea as well.

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

I worked in vet med for years before I learned that was an actual medical term and not just some grandma’s Yiddish word for it.

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peachwafffle@reddit

You thought smegma was Yiddish? 💀

Ayyyy lmaoo that is hysterical

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

I’d always heard it pronounced schmeg-ma. Sounds Yiddish. Or made up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was young. It was pre-internet everywhere.

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DraculasDog@reddit

Hopefully just urine.

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Lehk@reddit

The heat and bromine will kill the sperms

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Alaska_Pipeliner@reddit

Still looks like egg drop soup. A churning vat of it.

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Huckleberry_83@reddit

I totally gagged. Kudos to you.

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bedtimedoesntsuitme@reddit

Yep! My mom took my best friend and I for my birthday one year. It was fun.

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oxnardmontalvo7@reddit

Yeah, no… we got our diseases the old fashioned way: poverty and no health care

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EliteJoz@reddit

I got my immune system from swimming in ditches after really bad thunderstorms.

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linseeds@reddit

I used to swim in creek flood water. I do have a great immune system now.

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Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit

Or the occasional apartment complex hot tub.

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Due-Explanation-7560@reddit

Yeah! And sharing needles and unprotected sex

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Impossible_Memory_85@reddit

And the occasional public toliet seat

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PutNameHere123@reddit

No. For like 80 bucks (this was 1999 dollars) we got a Residence Inn room for the night. Enough room for at least 6 people to crash, and even had an oven for a frozen pizza.

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OskeyBug@reddit

I've seen enough episodes of Blind Date to know better.

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Asleep_Onion@reddit

I'm so goddamn confused by this post. Is this really a thing? I have literally never heard of this concept before now. And it sounds insane and like a horrible idea.

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Educational-Cut572@reddit

I never saw one in person, but this gem of a commercial was shared in the Columbus sub! https://youtu.be/cv-z9bBxsLI?si=iPb4ZjcWd_sxCq6M

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lavasca@reddit

Always wanted to try it. My husband says no. He is super grossed out and drew an analogy between such tubs and a weWork facility.

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Big_Downstairs_6969@reddit

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Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit

Never heard of it before

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al_rey503@reddit

We did this but we used to sneak into all the resort hot tubs in Palm Springs lol

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HerebutNotreally9@reddit

The closest thing to this that I’m aware of is the Subarus

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Some-Exchange-4711@reddit

Is that where Sybians are from?

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Tinyhulk27@reddit

Well both those and the hot tub rental by the hour place showed up in the same sections on Craigslist before they went "legitimate".

So they are related.

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Some-Exchange-4711@reddit

Interesting! 🧐

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PickledPixie83@reddit

We always joke about going to Sybaris and then I am always skeeved out about why is in the water.

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Avocado-Pretty@reddit

And that’s a stretch compared to what he described.

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GaspSpit@reddit

My parents told me you had to be married to get a room there. Once we heard they had pools and swings in their rooms, we assumed it was a water park hotel type place.

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NindieNation@reddit

I rented something like that one time in my life.

I did get drunk, but I was with my wife, not my buds...

Based on what we did in that room, I've not been in a shared space like that since.

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CherryCherry5@reddit

What??

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Corn_Beefies@reddit

I feel like this is a very specific regional thing. Like definitely an Albany activity.

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snoopyh42@reddit

Ah, the good old "soak n' poke". There's still at least one in the Bay Area. "Watercourse Way" in Palo Alto, sometimes called "Intercourse Way" for very obvious reasons. Nice place, though. Classier than some of the other options that are now closed.

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cranberries87@reddit

I never saw or heard of a hot tub shop. They should bring that back!

The closest I know of is the sensory deprivation tank floats that are becoming popular. Also, a local spa used to offer a type of bathtub with fancy LED lights and scented oils. They discontinued it though.

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aitatrash@reddit

If anyone's interested in the Bay Area, there's a place in Palo Alto called Watercourse Way, affectionately called Intercourse Way by certain people. They have legit daybed-type mattresses in every room. I haven't been there since my 20s, but it was more of a nice place for a date, not a TV and radio one.

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unbalancedcentrifuge@reddit

That has to be the #1 place that I do NOT want to bring in a UV light.

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

We rented hotel rooms that had hot tubs. It was more of a couples thing than a party.

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TrashBoatTrashBoat@reddit

I’m sorry, a mattress?

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

It's a plastic mat

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

That’s not better.

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

It's for fucking

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Ginger_Snaps_Back@reddit

No sheets, just a mattress on the floor.

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Vintage_Visionary@reddit

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DrDeboGalaxy@reddit

You talkin about Sybaris?

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Icy_Hippo@reddit

went to refillable ones, which were hot springs, was more of a couple thing, every couple I know fucked in it.

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flerchin@reddit

I was still kinda heartbroken about my ex girlfriend in 1998 when she drunkenly confessed to being spit roasted in one of these after we broke up. I got over being heartbroken after that.

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PaliDudeBro@reddit

Only time I went to a place like this - called a Wellness Center on the side of the building! - it ended up being a gay bath house and I saw things in the first 10 of being there that I can never unsee.

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SmokedPapfreaka@reddit

30 mins from my house 😊

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camptastic_plastic@reddit

Not the sound proof walls… 😂

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AsparagusOverall8454@reddit

No…that was reserved for places that had rooms and charged people by the hour.

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YousAPenguinLookinMF@reddit

Pretty sure this was a brothel.

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lunicorn@reddit

Don’t walk in with a black light.

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MetaPhalanges@reddit

We didn't have these. Best we could do is sleazy sex suites with heart shaped beds and hot tubs slippery with old lube.

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GateDeep3282@reddit

In the late 80's I'd take women to a place like this. Typically once we'd already been intimate although a couple of times I went with women who were just really good friends. Good times.

And yes, they drained and sanitized after every use.

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disaffectedlawyer@reddit

Just like with a transmission, water heater, or ketchup bottle, draining and filling doesn’t clean a damn thing.

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

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I'm imagining a group of 20 somethings partying in the bathtub aisle at a home improvement store. What's a tub shop and why do I feel itchy now like I need a shower?

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FestivusRestOfUs@reddit

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cracked-tumbleweed@reddit

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unbalancedcentrifuge@reddit

What in the defunct Poconos resort hell is a tub shop????

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Suedeonquaaludes@reddit

😂😭☠️

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BDLTalks@reddit

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Top-Difficulty5202@reddit

Oh, yes. Never went myself, but in my town it was called Oasis. Different room themes. Not sure how they cleaned out, but I imagine it is like going to a public pool. Just chlorine and if there is any shenannigans they would just empty. But, yeah....this is popular especially in the north.

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graveybrains@reddit

The last time I heard about one of those places was when that girl drowned in one.

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timsea99@reddit

This is for sex work dude. You were hanging out in a petri dish of venereal diseases

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TheDangDeal@reddit

Nope. Though we did rent a 15 person one once for a party we were throwing at our house in college.

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Ineedavodka2019@reddit

There was one in the city I lived by but it looked sketchy.

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ferret96@reddit

This is like the dude with the poop knife. This was just you, nobody else does this :)

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TheAskewOne@reddit

Tf is that? I don’t remember hot tubs Neu bf a thing where I lived.

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westgazer@reddit

I have no idea what this is. When was this a thing?

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

High school

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bokatan778@reddit

Where? I’ve never heard of this either

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

Boston. I assumed these were all over. Lots if colleges and high schools over here. We were always filling that place up, especially during the winter.

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mariah188@reddit

We had these places too. And it was during HS that this was a thing. I never went though.

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bokatan778@reddit

Interesting, maybe it was a regional thing. I grew up in California and have never heard of this.

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Easy_Hearing8247@reddit

This is in America??? (43yr old us citizen here)

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mariah188@reddit

I remember these! We use to call it “going to the hot tubs.” I never did it because I was too young, but I knew of others who did.

What happened to these kinds of places?

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christopherDdouglas@reddit

We had one in the area I grew up in. Tubs. Everyone knew, you don't go to Tubs...

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Momosufusu@reddit

Wait these don’t exist anymore?

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Ok_Percentage5157@reddit

Uh... What?

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Redeyebandit87@reddit

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disaffectedlawyer@reddit

Do not turn on the black light

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dustractor@reddit

brings new meaning to bed, bath, and beyond

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Rsubs33@reddit

Def not. Pool halls sure. Hot tub halls no.

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Nousernamesleft81@reddit

I mean, I’m aware that places like this exist, but never really associated with being a Xennial.

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Gullible_Rich_7156@reddit

Hot tubs for rent by the hour that you’re allowed to eat and drink alcohol in? What could possibly go wrong?

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

When you're 17 in the 90s...

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ChristyLovesGuitars@reddit

I’ve never heard of tub shops. Is/was that a thing?

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ryaca@reddit

There was this place in Seattle called Tubs where you could do that. Car stereo mounted in the wall, chaise lounge with mystery stains. It was the kind of place to enjoy with a hooker and an 8-ball.

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nikki_therese@reddit

Ew

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Dave_Labels@reddit

Bro these are for hook ups. I can guarantee many foreign fluids have plastered every inch of these places. I know, I’ve plastered.

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edasto42@reddit

Yes but we didn’t rent one out to drink at.

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andronicus_14@reddit

Whatever nonsense this is never made its way to Indiana.

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Queasy_Connection738@reddit

Tubs in Seattle! One is still in business, y’all can Google Elliott Bay hot tubs and check it out. Rent it for an hour, maybe not use hot tub but definitely bang in the sauna and/or padded bench then check out. Good times!

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

Yes! A sauna too!

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DachshundNursery@reddit

We used to rent a spot at a more spa-like kind of place when we were feeling classy. When we weren't we just got the "honeymoon suite" at a cheap motel.

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No_Raisin_250@reddit

Never a tub shop but we rented motel rooms to hang out in.

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napalmthechild@reddit

In Asia we call them soapies and it comes with an extra guest included 👀

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

Is a snorkel included?

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cloudydays2021@reddit

Is this a regional thing? I grew up in NYC and sometimes things like this don’t resonate but I’m really curious

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

Greater Boston

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

Boston isn’t that great

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Comprehensive-Fact94@reddit

I've heard people in the Seattle area talk about these kinds of places.

Here in the bible belt, I'm not sure this exists. We wallow in the sewage filled lakes all summer like 'civilized humans'. 🤣

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noonesaidityet@reddit

What is even happening right now?

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shmelse@reddit

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Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit

This seems like one of those things that was highly regional or maybe even just a thing in your town. I’ve never heard of such a thing but maybe that’s because I’ve always lived in Texas and the air outside usually feels like hot tub water so this wouldn’t thrive here.

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Opposite-Mushroom940@reddit

Yeah no. That tub was full of DNA.

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theloop82@reddit

I went to one of these once. They had a mattress covered in plastic like your grandmas couch and I bet the water chemistry was 16% body fluids. Never went to one again and got my own hot tub eventually and even with just us going in there keeping the water on point is sort of a pain. It sort of ruined Public/hotel hot tubs for me

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Spartan04@reddit

I remember a place like that being advertised, and even then it sounded nasty. I didn’t know anyone that actually went.

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Impressive-Record839@reddit

Absolutely not. In college we did used to just go to hotel pools and act like we were staying there quite a bit

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Bubbleguts420@reddit

Make some egg drop soup in that thing… Amirite?!?!?!

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owlthebeer97@reddit

What state is this haha? I'm from Florida and we just used to crash condo/hotel hot tubs and pools.

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

Boston

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throwaway402342@reddit

Yes, in the early 2000s there was a place like this in Lincoln, Nebraska called The Tubbery. It was awesome.

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HopelessMagic@reddit

I think you lived in a very privileged neighborhood. We climbed up in the neighbors barn and fooled around until the farmer came back down the road. Then we ran for the cornfield and hoped he didn't see us. 😂

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit (OP)

Greater Boston

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HopelessMagic@reddit

Yeah, you should know... That's not normal. 😂

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ECNV1978@reddit

Yep, there was a spa where I went to college that you could rent a hot tub room for an hour at a time. Most people did it before or after a massage (this was a high end place in Palo Alto). I don’t think I’d do it now but in college my friends and I went in on a room quite a few times.

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TheDeansPeanuts@reddit

Uh, does anybody want to tell OP what hotels that charge by the hour are for…

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timbreandsteel@reddit

Getting drunk and munching out...

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6thBornSOB@reddit

I didn’t know this was even a thing! Probably for the best, no way I could’ve afforded it🤣

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denotsmai83@reddit

Only other time I’ve ever heard of one of these was also on Reddit, though more people (not me) seemed to know what they were. And the people who had been to one were very open about having sex in them.

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El_Hefe_Ese@reddit

I went to one in Michigan a few years ago. It was great I'm the snow No mattress tho, that's just...too much

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18randomcharacters@reddit

People saying this is gross don't understand that the water is drained and refilled for each guest. And cleaned inbetween. Like a bath tub.

In Denver, there's the Oakwell Beer Spa (https://oakwell.com). Went there for an anniversary with my wife, it was a very nice experience.

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