When you know you know

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Alternative_Sort_404@reddit

When we did this at our Y, I so wanted to skate it…

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We used to try and skate the big square outdoor city pools when they were drained in September. There were 2 big problems. 1 there was almost no transition like a round or kidney bean shaped pool. It was really hard get on the wall. The other big problem was there was no line to pump to keep your speed up. So basically all we could do is wall rides with extra steps.

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Retire_Trade_3007@reddit (OP)

Annual maintenance. My son lifeguard there and they would shock for vomit and dookies. This is annual maintenance before the summer season I believe. But the glory of Caddyshack rang in my head

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Junior_Lavishness_96@reddit

Ruth! Ruth! Baby Ruth! Uh huh huh….

Hey you guys!!

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Foulmouthedleon@reddit

Although my favorite movie of all-time is Caddyshack, I was thinking of the “don’t do drugs” commercial where it had some dude on a diving board getting ready to dive into an empty pool.

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Junior_Lavishness_96@reddit

Oh yeah I remember that psa

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Alternative_Sort_404@reddit

What about the egg in the frying pan, or the kid that found his dad’s ‘kit’ and says ‘I learned it by watching you!!!’

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shado0911@reddit

Picture has been .. well, white-washed .. all the blues inside are removed .. a couple of chairs on the end are blue and white but all the water the flags the walls, anything blue INSIDE has been tinted out .. pretty decent job actually.

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Kevan-with-an-i@reddit

This pool reminds you of the one from Caddyshack?

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Trippp2001@reddit

Empty pool. Emptied because of doodie.

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talrich@reddit

Every pool I've worked at, and there have been many over the years, use a chemical "shock" after a #2 accident.

Emptying all the water out of the pool is only done for substantial (e.g. annual) maintenance. Dumping and refilling that much water is massively expensive and unnecessary.

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Alternative_Sort_404@reddit

Reality bites

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Octonaut7A@reddit

This. When I worked in a pool on the rare occasions that we had to empty the pool we had to make arrangements with the fire brigade and the city because of the drain on the water supply.

We often had people who thought we emptied it at least once a week, they were somehow surprised by the fact that it takes days to empty an 11,000 gallon pool, and days more to refill it, not mention how long it then takes to get back up to temperature.

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donutello2000@reddit

It costs about $15,000 to empty and refill a pool that size in our area. They’re not doing that unless it’s absolutely necessary.

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Muggi@reddit

Our HS had the funds to put in a pool, or a big clocktower. They chose the clocktower.

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Alternative_Sort_404@reddit

To be fair - the pool was probably never in the running and they were always going to choose the clock tower… a pool has WAY bigger overhead and operational/maintenance costs. It’s not even a fair comparison

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