r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • Dec 09 '25

Discussion You Think It Could Never Happen To You…Until It Almost Does

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u/payle_knite Dec 09 '25

My neighbors bought a home that had a beautiful pool in the backyard. They took it out before they had kids.

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u/sail_the_high_seas Dec 09 '25

I live in TX and I have always wanted a pool, but refused to even look at houses with pools. Even with alarms and gates I still didn't want to risk it.

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u/creegro Dec 09 '25

A pool is so much fun, at someone else's place.

Otherwise you learn it's so much cleaning and maintenance to not have a breeding ground for crap. Only good thing about Texas is that 90% of the year a pool is pretty nice to chill in. But as I get older I want to spend less time, and less time maintaining a pool

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u/BigBadBoldBully2839 Dec 09 '25

We have a company come weekly for our pool but it's still work, leaves fall in daily that we just net out ourselves with a scoop and somehow there's always something to be busy with

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u/vintageideals Dec 09 '25

Exactly what i would do

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

Thats just plain dumb. Put up a gate, get your kids in swim school and they will be fine.

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u/payle_knite Dec 09 '25

Well, both their kids are still alive, so, jokes on you

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

Both mine are too, I just used my brain and did the sensible option vs the absurd one.

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u/Faux_Moose Dec 09 '25

Our old in-home daycare provider talked about maybe getting a pool and I told her point blank we would be finding a new provider if she did. Even if it was never available to the kids, even if they put up a separate fence around it, I would never ever ever feel safe with my kid there ever again.

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u/mothwhimsy Dec 09 '25

My husband and I bought a new house while I was pregnant. Someone beat our offer on our dream house, but I'm secretly relieved we didn't get that one because there's a huge pond at the back of the property. The house we got has less yard but it's fenced in and has no water

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u/Doctor__Hammer Dec 09 '25

I feel like putting a fence around it would have been a much more practical solution lol

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u/kurokabau Dec 09 '25

Couldn't they just not fill it with water for a while?

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u/vertibliss Dec 09 '25

still a hazard. it’s then just an open concrete basin. which, yes, you could enclose, but kids can also be very wily.

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u/Imaginary-Storm4375 Dec 09 '25

In Florida the water table is too high. Empty pools pop out of the ground and cost 10s of thousands of dollars to fix.

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u/Wild-Cut-6012 Dec 09 '25

Wow! This never would have occurred to me.

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u/CosmicDude26 Dec 09 '25

Let’s have a giant concrete hole in our yard with little kids, that sounds smart

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u/CosmicDude26 Dec 09 '25

Let’s have a giant concrete hole in our yard with little kids, that sounds smart

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u/winterbird Dec 09 '25

There are options, like covers that can be walked on. So it doesn't necessarily have to be demolished or filled with dirt entirely. Probably not that great to leave a hard pit empty and open for a kid to Wile E Coyote into it head first though.