Do pool chemicals turn colors with urine?
It’s a hot summer day when you and your crew are relaxing away the afternoon in the backyard pool. Suddenly, nature calls. The bathroom is light-years away. OK, 100 feet. But on top of walking to the house dripping wet, when you get there you’ll have to peel off your bathing suit and slip and slide across the porcelain seat. You mull over your options: take the arduous journey or swim around a bit and relieve yourself, treading water in the deep end. While pondering the latter, bladder burning, you wonder if the pool is treated with chemicals that will turn your pee red or purple. Do you make the trip, or alert all your friends you just peed everywhere and hope they haven’t swallowed any water? If you can hold it, first consider this: Are there really chemicals that will “leak” your secret? Troy, an employee of Leslie’s Swimming Pool Supplies — a national chain of pool products, equipment and chemicals — who asked not to have his last name published, said, “No, they don’t exist.” Chl
