Swim Rant

How about the guy who is not quite fast enough to swim in your lane, but insists on going in front because you are female. This is not a feminist rant, the other guys in the lane were aware of it too. Finally one day they had me lead, they went in the middle, and forced this guy to go at the back. We went slower and never let him come up at all. It wasn't kind of us, but we were tired of him for doing this AND for having bad lane ettiquite AAAAAAND breathing hard, directly in our faces, when he could've easily turned to the side like the rest of us. He now only comes once or twice a month. :groovy: Or, how about the person who is incredible foul in the mornings. Literally, when I said "good morning", she would grunt (and sometimes even added, "well, it's not"). Anyway, at the time, there were several of us who swam around the same speed and each morning we jumped into a couple of lanes, never really caring who was in what lane - we all swam well together. Exception...this gal was our same speed and we didin't swim well with her, as she kvetched and whined about the sets, her ankle, and anything else she saw fit. It got to the point that we actually used to get there a bit early and jump into lanes so that she was forced to move up because our lanes were "too full". She moved away. :cheerleader: I'm not a passive-aggressive person by nature (and lordy have I caught grief for it), but in cases such as these, well, it seems to work out quite nicely. I think this covers Ande's quest for rants and solutions.

How about the guy who is not quite fast enough to swim in your lane, but insists on going in front because you are female. This is not a feminist rant, the other guys in the lane were aware of it too. Finally one day they had me lead, they went in the middle, and forced this guy to go at the back. We went slower and never let him come up at all. It wasn't kind of us, but we were tired of him for doing this AND for having bad lane ettiquite AAAAAAND breathing hard, directly in our faces, when he could've easily turned to the side like the rest of us. He now only comes once or twice a month. :groovy: Or, how about the person who is incredible foul in the mornings. Literally, when I said "good morning", she would grunt (and sometimes even added, "well, it's not"). Anyway, at the time, there were several of us who swam around the same speed and each morning we jumped into a couple of lanes, never really caring who was in what lane - we all swam well together. Exception...this gal was our same speed and we didin't swim well with her, as she kvetched and whined about the sets, her ankle, and anything else she saw fit. It got to the point that we actually used to get there a bit early and jump into lanes so that she was forced to move up because our lanes were "too full". She moved away. :cheerleader: I'm not a passive-aggressive person by nature (and lordy have I caught grief for it), but in cases such as these, well, it seems to work out quite nicely. I think this covers Ande's quest for rants and solutions.