I’ve been scouting swimming pools at country clubs in the New York area recently, and I’m pretty amazed at how graphic the Pool Rules signs can be. Like this one, spotted at a country club with a $30K initiation fee and $30k/year membership dues:

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“Discharge of fecal matter” – are you kidding me?? I know they’re trying to a find a polite way of saying “No crapping in the pool”…but doesn’t “Discharge of Fecal Matter” actually sound much worse? Also, in case you were wondering, “expectorating” is a fancy way of saying “spitting” (had to look that one up – I thought it might have something to do with being pregnant).

Here’s another sign, at a similarly expensive club:

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Large sores??? Who are these members?? And there’s that defecation thing again. I didn’t realize pooping in public pools was such an epidemic…but then, I don’t belong to a $30k/year country clubs.

-SCOUT

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  1. Krista Avatar
    Krista

    I think they missed vomiting.

    I actually learned the meaning of “expectorate” from a Disney movie. In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston proclaims that he is “especially good at expectorating” and then spits something across the room. Thank you, Disney, for expanding my vocabulary.

  2. Lester Avatar

    If I’m paying $30,000 a year in fees, I’d expect to be able to poop wherever I damn well please.

  3. zoso Avatar

    the one about bushwood/ I recently planted a real baby ruth candy bar at a condo -play swam up with but nobody got the joke.so i ate it/but i peed in an upstate reservoir upstae ny and the next day someone was found dead/i always thought it was my fault and it haunted my childhood/thanks for freeing me.love your website.keep up good finds……peace