:bitching: Ok, tell me please if I'm being petty here. Every summer, I swim outside in the community pool which has 2 lap lanes available in the morning and evenings. HOwever, while swimming, I often have to wait for non swimmers who enter the lap lane and go under the ropes to cross over to the open area, because they are too lazy to use the other two entrances to the pool ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE, about a whole 15 feet away! Today, I ended up in a confrontation with a woman, (sorry, but why is it always the women????) who said she didn't want to walk around to the other side. When I told her that the lap lanes were put in for lap swimming and that crossing while people are swimming is not safe, she laughed at me. Of course, the 3 lifeguards sat and watched in their usual stupor. Do you deal with this in your general outdoor pools? I am throwing in the towel and giving up since the guards will not monitor the lanes and frankly, fighting when swimming is making me very unhappy. :badday:
Bill, you are very fortunate.
Brenda, It seems that this pool company feels that lap swimming is a PIA (poor guards have to remove and install lane lines every day!), and therefore, despite the homeowners' management company's instructions that guards should keep the non-swimmers out of the lap lanes, the pool company is disregarding those instructions and guards sit there and stare straight ahead, pretending not to see the rule breakers. We are second class citizens.
Fresnoid, Chris, and Sunruh, I did that in the past, and a woman who refused to get out of the lap lane (so she could do some semblance of water exercises against the wall) claimed I hit her, while I was doing backstroke. She then got out of the pool and called the police! At that time, the guards were very supportive, and told the police that she refused to get out of the lap lane. It's a very stressful experience sometimes. Other times, it is a very lovely experience, depending on whether or not a random cretin shows up at the pool on any given day.
Which begs the question - if the lifeguards saw this all happen, why didn't they blow the whistle and tell her to get out of the lane to begin with. The problem seems a non-enforcement of lap lane swimming by the lifeguards.
Bill, you are very fortunate.
Brenda, It seems that this pool company feels that lap swimming is a PIA (poor guards have to remove and install lane lines every day!), and therefore, despite the homeowners' management company's instructions that guards should keep the non-swimmers out of the lap lanes, the pool company is disregarding those instructions and guards sit there and stare straight ahead, pretending not to see the rule breakers. We are second class citizens.
Fresnoid, Chris, and Sunruh, I did that in the past, and a woman who refused to get out of the lap lane (so she could do some semblance of water exercises against the wall) claimed I hit her, while I was doing backstroke. She then got out of the pool and called the police! At that time, the guards were very supportive, and told the police that she refused to get out of the lap lane. It's a very stressful experience sometimes. Other times, it is a very lovely experience, depending on whether or not a random cretin shows up at the pool on any given day.
Which begs the question - if the lifeguards saw this all happen, why didn't they blow the whistle and tell her to get out of the lane to begin with. The problem seems a non-enforcement of lap lane swimming by the lifeguards.
