Swimming pools

[sobrique]

It's a swimming pool.
Not a 'sauntering pool'
Not a 'bimble up and down whilst you chat to your friend' pool.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not what you'd call a good swimmer. I'm not all that fast. I'm getting better than I was, but I fully accept that part of the reason I go swimming is because I'm _not_ in as good a shape as I'd like. So I can hardly complain about anyone else doing the same.

However there are few things more annoying than a couple of women (It's true, in the last two years of swimming 3-4 times per week, I've never seen men do this) swimming side by side up and down the pool whilst yakking. It's invariable 2 (or even 3) people moving at the same speed as the slowest. And slower still because they keep turning around to chunter at each other.

I don't have a problem with you talking to your friends at the swimming pool. I don't have a problem with you swimming slowly. However when you're effectively being a 'rolling roadblock' to EVERYONE ELSE then you're just being rude.

(Oh btw, I found a new icon. Innit great?)

Comments

[tenuous.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you. The pool in Rugby even has a designated 'fast' lane, but it seems to make no difference. I'm training for a triathlon and get eternally stuck in the dilemma of wanting to respect others rights to use the pool and my own desire to actually swim more than a dozen lenghts before I run out of time and have to head back to the office.

Asking politely followed by lots of splashing seems to do the trick, though :-)

(I trust you're not going to be using that icon too often?)

[myki.livejournal.com]

Calmly ask them to move. If they don't simply exit the pool, plug in a hairdryer and dropit in the deep end. People are easier to swim around when they are still.