Okay, I know somebody's gonna bust me on the unethical nature of what I'm about to ask. Rest assured I'm not actually planning to do this, but with the misery of swimming in my current pool the idea did enter my head, sort of a "what if" type of thought...
Have any of you find upstanding folks ever used a hotel or apartment pool where you weren't staying or living, um, without permission? I know, most hotel and apartment pools suck, but occasionally there's one that's of sufficient size to get a workout that beckons to you over the fence. "Come swim in me..."
Anybody do this regularly and get away with it? Anybody have any interesting stories of running half naked from hotel security hell bent on having you charged with tresspassing?
Once again, no lectures, please. I've been reading a lot of material from Hunter Thompson lately (who swims, by the way--or at least he used to), and his weird shenanigans have my own imagination coming up with all kinds of daring, if unethical, solutions to the problems of life.
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Originally posted by Leonard Jansen
"but with the misery of swimming in my current pool "
Perhaps I saw the details of this and forgot them (senility), but what is the problem?
Overcrowding and bad scheduling. The mental giants who run the place schedule all the activities that take up two and three lanes of the pool during the busiest times for lap swimmers. The pool is a favorite of inexperienced swimmers who don't understand lap swimming etiquette, ignore the speed designations on the lanes and can't swim a straight line. Just yesterday, I got kicked in the thigh under the lane rope by someone who thought the breaststroke kick should resemble James Brown's scissor splits; hit in the shoulder by another breaststroker who sculled out wide under the lane rope; stuck behind the slowest swimmer in the pool who insisted on swimming in the fast lane and couldn't pass because there were five other people in the lane; had to keep dodging a guy who insisted on doing backstroke but needed the whole lane to do it; and had my hand cracked by a guy who kept swimming down the middle of the lane and crowding oncoming traffic. It made me want to swim butterfly with my fists closed.
That's the short version. For a more in depth look at my pool, read my description of it on the "Paddles, gloves, etc." thread, at the bottom the page linked here:
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
It's so ridiculous that if it weren't so irritating it would be a laugh riot. The facility itself is nice enough, but the problems here officially make it The Worst Pool I've Ever Used.
Originally posted by Leonard Jansen
"but with the misery of swimming in my current pool "
Perhaps I saw the details of this and forgot them (senility), but what is the problem?
Overcrowding and bad scheduling. The mental giants who run the place schedule all the activities that take up two and three lanes of the pool during the busiest times for lap swimmers. The pool is a favorite of inexperienced swimmers who don't understand lap swimming etiquette, ignore the speed designations on the lanes and can't swim a straight line. Just yesterday, I got kicked in the thigh under the lane rope by someone who thought the breaststroke kick should resemble James Brown's scissor splits; hit in the shoulder by another breaststroker who sculled out wide under the lane rope; stuck behind the slowest swimmer in the pool who insisted on swimming in the fast lane and couldn't pass because there were five other people in the lane; had to keep dodging a guy who insisted on doing backstroke but needed the whole lane to do it; and had my hand cracked by a guy who kept swimming down the middle of the lane and crowding oncoming traffic. It made me want to swim butterfly with my fists closed.
That's the short version. For a more in depth look at my pool, read my description of it on the "Paddles, gloves, etc." thread, at the bottom the page linked here:
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
It's so ridiculous that if it weren't so irritating it would be a laugh riot. The facility itself is nice enough, but the problems here officially make it The Worst Pool I've Ever Used.
