After reading the Senior Games posting, I got thinking about "rude" behavior I have observed at a Masters Meet. I have not seen rudeness as much as observing improper pool etiquette.
My pet peeve is: When a heat is over, the fast swimmers don't wait until all swimmers have finished their swim before exiting the water. I would think that when the slower finisher discovers that he/she is the last one in the pool, he/she would be rather disheartened.
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Hmm -- well, I'm generally perfectly happy to wait until the last swimmer has finished (but sometimes that's me :( ). I had always thought that was at least an unwritten rule and I've been in many meets where the officials have expressly asked swimmers to stay in the water until all swimmers have finished, if only to avoid confusing the timing system. (But I rarely swim events longer than 100 meters and I can understand why someone finishing several laps ahead in a distance event -- say, a 1650 -- might not want to wait in cold water.)
But I agree with you about poor pool etiquette, and not just in races. My particular pet peeve is the swimmer who gets in a lane at warmup or workout, paying no attention to whoever is already in there. Invariably, this person is either too fast or too slow and completely disrupts the lane. :mad:
Hmm -- well, I'm generally perfectly happy to wait until the last swimmer has finished (but sometimes that's me :( ). I had always thought that was at least an unwritten rule and I've been in many meets where the officials have expressly asked swimmers to stay in the water until all swimmers have finished, if only to avoid confusing the timing system. (But I rarely swim events longer than 100 meters and I can understand why someone finishing several laps ahead in a distance event -- say, a 1650 -- might not want to wait in cold water.)
But I agree with you about poor pool etiquette, and not just in races. My particular pet peeve is the swimmer who gets in a lane at warmup or workout, paying no attention to whoever is already in there. Invariably, this person is either too fast or too slow and completely disrupts the lane. :mad:
