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

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

Conversely, the thing I really hate is when I'm swimming (not bimbling, not chatting, just keeping myself to myself and swimming some fairly fast lengths) and someone (usually a man) jumps in and does that SPLASH SPLASH LOOK AT ME I'M SWIMMING thing where they plough up and down the pool splashing and kicking everyone who's already in there in an attempt to demonstrate their prowess. These, I suspect, are the same people who zoom past you at traffic lights with souped-up engines, and possibly those little blue lights under their cars.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

This is also annoying.
Personally I tend to assume anyone doing the 'splashsplashsplash' thing is just demonstrating that they can't actually swim very well.