It’s Finally Open

@AmbiePam (122172)
United States
July 3, 2026 11:22am CST
After six years of being closed because they were too cheap to fix the pool equipment, our apartment complex pool is now open. I will be nowhere near it as that is where unsupervised children (which IS against the rules) yell obscenities at each other, and the little ones pee in the pool. I don’t particularly like that there will now be more noise in that area, but I’m very happy they cared enough to fix it. I can tell the current manager is trying to make things better. I just hope no one breaks the equipment again.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238666)
• Walnut Creek, California
49m
Children? Obscenities? Why are kids cursing? Where are their parents?
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Amber
@AmbiePam (122172)
• United States
Just now
I’ll play along with you. Their parents are wherever they aren’t.They don’t like their kids anymore than I do.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (122172)
• United States
Just now
@TheHorse they are supposed to have an adult with them if they are 16 and under. The reality is that we’ve got kids as young as eight with no supervision.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238666)
• Walnut Creek, California
Just now
@AmbiePam How old are these kids?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (175094)
• United States
12m
I wish a pool would open here but the city keeps saying it's too expensive to fill the pool and maintain it every summer. I'd love to drive to the lake and swim but I just can't take a chance we'll get down there and my eyes will swell closed before we can get back home again.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (122172)
• United States
Just now
Yeah, they would be really bad if you couldn’t get back home.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (175094)
• United States
Just now
@AmbiePam I've only seen two hotels/motels on the drive down to the lake so we'd have to book a room for a few days before I'd be willing to make that drive.
snowy
@snowy22315 (210021)
• United States
2h
Maybe the pool will be open for a brief time when the kiddos go back to school..and you can get a dip in.
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Dominique
@dodo19 (48261)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
2h
Hopefully it doesn't cause too much trouble. But you never know.
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LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (68)
• United States
1h
This is just my very loose (unresearched) opinion, so please don't take any offense to this, but it seems like subsidized housing complexes wouldn't want a pool because they are extremely expensive to maintain and upkeep and perhaps if they didn't have that amenity, they could make the rents lower? Again, I don't know and I am NOT saying that people who live in subsidized housing shouldn't have niceties. That is not my point. I just know that even homeowners with in-ground pools say that pools are a "money pit."
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Amber
@AmbiePam (122172)
• United States
1h
This is not solely a Section 8 apartment complex. They have people who live here who are not on any government help. The owners have to think of them too. Also, I think you might be picturing something that doesn’t exist. Our pool is tiny. They don’t have a lifeguard, and the equipment that was broken was broken because of a fight between two teen boys out back. There is barely any upkeep at all (you’d probably have to see it to understand). Most pools in these low income places ARE tiny. I think people might be imagining the pool of NJChicaa. That is not what exists.
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Michael
@Wrexxo (3014)
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1h
So, you like swimming but you don't wanna go to that particular pool because kids yell obscenities and they pee in the pool..I wouldn't wanna go near such pool too. I feel there should be stricter rules against these things
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Amber
@AmbiePam (122172)
• United States
1h
I’m also not a good swimmer. But mainly, I just don’t want to deal with foul mouthed teenagers who frequent the pool even though they are supposed to be supervised.
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Michael
@Wrexxo (3014)
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1h
@AmbiePam i do that here too. I try as much as possible to stay away from foul mouthed kids. I can't beat them and I wouldn't want them to disrespect me
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Thelma
@thelme55 (79535)
• Germany
Just now
That is the reason I don’t want to go to a public pool. Children peeing in the pool. I saw it once. Since then I didn’t go anymore.
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