Hubby was blessed with extreme worry wart parent who I refuse to tell about anything slightly negative going on because they jump to the worst possible conslusion about everything. (Got a cold? You're dying of pneumonia!! Either that or mono!) SO hubby and I generally are rebellious about that kind of stuff and I'm sure that's his motivation for saying drink out of the pool, etc.
No offense taken.
My mother was famous for her "freak accident" stories... did anyone else get those? You know, the people who got grievously injured putting their head out the car window, choking on food, or doing anything you happened to be contemplating or doing at that very moment. It was suspicious because it never happened to anyone she knew personally; it was always her sister's driving instructor's daughter or the neighbor's in-law or something. I think either she hung around emergency rooms or she invented the urban legend.