has anyone encountered snobs in the pool?i know i have,they come in..say half an hour after you start swimming..then decide that they have your lane..you know they swim directly in your path even though you have swam linearly for 1500metres +...try keeping your path and you end up colliding...sometimes they appologise...sometimes they ignore..i have to change lanes....
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Originally posted by SWinkleblech
If I get one more ball bouncing in my lane I swear I'm going to pop it.
To this day (well, not any more, since I quit), if someone's toys or equipment comes into the lane, I stop and throw it to the deck on the other end of the pool. Want it? Get out and go get it. If you put it back in my lane, it goes right back to the deck on the far end of the pool. If it's an outdoor pool, it might just go over the fence.
When I first started using this forum, I was dressed down by the legendary Emmett Hines for saying I would throw stuff out of the pool, both for being discourteous and for the danger of hitting someone with the projectile floatie. He said that if I had done it at his pool, I would have been suspended from using the facility.
But you know what? These crappy pools are like the Wild West, where rules are mostly ignored. I have no faith left in pool management to fix the problems at these places. I'm tired of having to psych myself up for battle just to swim laps. The swim was supposed to work out the day's stress, not add to it.
Emmett actually seems like a good administrator whose pool probably doesn't have these problems, so he probably wouldn't have ever had to kick me out for taking the law into my own hands. But it seems to me that his pool is an exception. The rest, quite frankly, suck.
I'm headed for the trails.
Originally posted by SWinkleblech
If I get one more ball bouncing in my lane I swear I'm going to pop it.
To this day (well, not any more, since I quit), if someone's toys or equipment comes into the lane, I stop and throw it to the deck on the other end of the pool. Want it? Get out and go get it. If you put it back in my lane, it goes right back to the deck on the far end of the pool. If it's an outdoor pool, it might just go over the fence.
When I first started using this forum, I was dressed down by the legendary Emmett Hines for saying I would throw stuff out of the pool, both for being discourteous and for the danger of hitting someone with the projectile floatie. He said that if I had done it at his pool, I would have been suspended from using the facility.
But you know what? These crappy pools are like the Wild West, where rules are mostly ignored. I have no faith left in pool management to fix the problems at these places. I'm tired of having to psych myself up for battle just to swim laps. The swim was supposed to work out the day's stress, not add to it.
Emmett actually seems like a good administrator whose pool probably doesn't have these problems, so he probably wouldn't have ever had to kick me out for taking the law into my own hands. But it seems to me that his pool is an exception. The rest, quite frankly, suck.
I'm headed for the trails.
