here you go, the thread you've been waiting for
SWIM RANT
RANT to your hearts content about aspects of
SWIMMING and SWIMMERS that bug YOU
I encourage you to be good natured and hilarious
you may find it cathartic
Ande
anyone have anything to rant about
Besides the creepy hairballs that are always in my lane? :cry: Dang, how do you get all that hair out at once anyway? Ick!
*Yes, when the locker room is like a sauna and you have to dress for work after your workout and you're sweating like you ran a sprint and didn't take a shower. :frustrated:
*When the showers are preset to a specific temperature---too warm! And you have to push a freakin' button and it only lasts for a few seconds. :frustrated:
*When kids don't ask if they can get you to circle swim when you're swimming split lane with another person, when they think lap swimming means swim two feet then walk on their hands underwater, sit on lane ropes, crash into lap swimmers swimming backstroke, and the life guards are somewhere else and you have to talk to them about it and they look at you like they want to have a Jerry Springer brawl in the pool.:sad:
*When the guy in your lane acts like practice is a competition and he's tells you to get ready for an ass whopin'--dude we're in lane 2, get a life.
*When a class mate designs a really cool workout which includes swimming 50 yds, jumping out of the pool, doing pushups or situps on the bulkhead, jumping into the deep pool sculling across and back, etc. and this same guy is doing one-handed push-ups on the bulkhead, and calls you a wimp 'cause he's swimming 100's instead. :yawn:
*When your fins rub the top of your feet leaving icky scars. Why can't I just have fins sprout out of my feet when I get in the pool? Oh, 'cause I'm not a mermaid. Dang! :D
Ah, that's enough for now. I do feel better. Thanks Ande.
anyone have anything to rant about
Besides the creepy hairballs that are always in my lane? :cry: Dang, how do you get all that hair out at once anyway? Ick!
*Yes, when the locker room is like a sauna and you have to dress for work after your workout and you're sweating like you ran a sprint and didn't take a shower. :frustrated:
*When the showers are preset to a specific temperature---too warm! And you have to push a freakin' button and it only lasts for a few seconds. :frustrated:
*When kids don't ask if they can get you to circle swim when you're swimming split lane with another person, when they think lap swimming means swim two feet then walk on their hands underwater, sit on lane ropes, crash into lap swimmers swimming backstroke, and the life guards are somewhere else and you have to talk to them about it and they look at you like they want to have a Jerry Springer brawl in the pool.:sad:
*When the guy in your lane acts like practice is a competition and he's tells you to get ready for an ass whopin'--dude we're in lane 2, get a life.
*When a class mate designs a really cool workout which includes swimming 50 yds, jumping out of the pool, doing pushups or situps on the bulkhead, jumping into the deep pool sculling across and back, etc. and this same guy is doing one-handed push-ups on the bulkhead, and calls you a wimp 'cause he's swimming 100's instead. :yawn:
*When your fins rub the top of your feet leaving icky scars. Why can't I just have fins sprout out of my feet when I get in the pool? Oh, 'cause I'm not a mermaid. Dang! :D
Ah, that's enough for now. I do feel better. Thanks Ande.