Swimming

[mahogany]

I’m germ phobic. Sometimes I can keep a grip on it better than others. I’m the person that winces and quietly holds my breath if someone in the same room so much as coughs. If my kids are playing near kids with double snot barrels, I’ll use any excuse to get far away. I never drink from water fountains, and forbid my kids to use them. I avoid public restrooms like the plague, and if I have to use one, I squat. I could go on and on. I try to use my common sense and and bite my lip when I know that I’m being ridiculous.

The floors of public swimming pools cause feelings of profound revulsion in me. If I make water shoes mandatory for my children, does that make me a total freak? Am I turning them into annoying germ phobic freaks that will turn up their noses saying “Ewwwww, germs!”

Comments

[ipzma.livejournal.com]

You be you, I be me. I am opposite (not to an extreme btw). I figure -- encounter the germ and strngthen your immune system. If I was so easily grossed out I woul've never made it living in Africa or travelling through SE Asian backroads.

[wonkvdjagt.livejournal.com]

The floors of public swimming pool changerooms are worse than the fiery depths of HELL.