Swim Rant

What is it with some parents? When I was lap swimming last week, about halfway through a set of 400's, the pace clock I had set on the deck at the flags goes missing. I finish my repeat and look around and it is by a bench where kids are sitting (with parents) waiting for their swimming lesson. I yell at them to put it back and then they don't put it in the same place so I have to stop my workout, get out of the pool and put it back where I had it. Grrrrr!! And while I'm on a rant....why does pool staff schedule swim lessons during ADULT lap swim and take half the pool away from lap swimmers? Why can't they do this during open swim? Again...GRRRRR!!! I think I need that sign as well! I've decided summer is a bad time for attempting to do a real workout in lap lanes. Too many kids. I went to the rec center last week. One set of backstroke flags was gone, so the kiddies could dive. Noisy kids everywhere. Some dumb kid walked right up to my lane while I was swimming and picked up my fins and monofin like they were pool toys and walked away with them. Luckily, I was almost to the wall, so I stopped her. (Luckily, stupid kid did not drop it on her toe.) WTF? Parents let their kids do that nowadays? There were kids attempting to hop in the adult lap lanes constantly. Duh, it's ADULT swim. Pisses me off. Every pool I go to this summer it seems to be a problem. :dedhorse: :sad:

What is it with some parents? When I was lap swimming last week, about halfway through a set of 400's, the pace clock I had set on the deck at the flags goes missing. I finish my repeat and look around and it is by a bench where kids are sitting (with parents) waiting for their swimming lesson. I yell at them to put it back and then they don't put it in the same place so I have to stop my workout, get out of the pool and put it back where I had it. Grrrrr!! And while I'm on a rant....why does pool staff schedule swim lessons during ADULT lap swim and take half the pool away from lap swimmers? Why can't they do this during open swim? Again...GRRRRR!!! I think I need that sign as well! I've decided summer is a bad time for attempting to do a real workout in lap lanes. Too many kids. I went to the rec center last week. One set of backstroke flags was gone, so the kiddies could dive. Noisy kids everywhere. Some dumb kid walked right up to my lane while I was swimming and picked up my fins and monofin like they were pool toys and walked away with them. Luckily, I was almost to the wall, so I stopped her. (Luckily, stupid kid did not drop it on her toe.) WTF? Parents let their kids do that nowadays? There were kids attempting to hop in the adult lap lanes constantly. Duh, it's ADULT swim. Pisses me off. Every pool I go to this summer it seems to be a problem. :dedhorse: :sad: