17 Lifeguards Share Pool Secrets You Don’t Want to Know

by Irvi Torremoro

5.

The day a 70 year old woman who is also an ethics professor at the College Campus I worked on decided to hit pinch & kick an elderly man she didn’t want to share a lane with. I had to jump in the water just to defend the poor guy. When she was finally banned from the facility after multiple complaints from patrons and a statement from me, she accused us of facilitating the abuse of women.

6.

We’ve had a broken leg, a broken nose, and 2 code browns (pooping in the pool) in 1 day…

7.

Second day, second shift, diarrhea flakes from swim lessons in the shallow end floating through the bulkhead. Newest guard on deck so I had the pleasure of skimming poop flakes out of the pool for what felt like hours

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.