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

[purp1e-magic.livejournal.com]

I'm the one who goes swimming as a social event. I'll happily loaf about in the pool. I don't go to swim, I go to be in the water. It's good for my back. Just being in the water is pretty dull unless you have friends with you to chat to and stuff.

It's different in a way, though. I generally stick to the shallows and edges, away from 'proper swimmers' who don't need the security of being near that ridge near the edge when they're out of their depth. Also, I'm likely to have Simon clinging on, and I won't take him out of my depth. But if I was getting in the way of proper swimmers, I'd definitely find somewhere else to float about, unless the pool was so busy I just couldn't.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with loafing around in a pool.
I do so myself not infrequently. It's just ... well if I'm loafing and chatting, I feel I shouldn't be getting in the way of everyone else :)