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
Other swimmers just joining your lanes without even a hello and at the opposite end to where you are already starting from. Then setting off to lap as you're starting a 100 for time causing near collisions and promtping evasive actions and entaglements with the lane rope. No biggie, they at least saw what I was doing and held up in the water...well I wasn't going to stop...I was there first and "etiquette rules" are you join in with the workout in progress.
Finally, the lifeguard not getting your attention at the wall to tell you the lane rope is being removed for open swim, and just deciding the best way is to drag the lane rop on top of you. I got close to bellowing expletives at them from the water...I kept it to a rather agitated demeanour and a "I'll do the same for you!" What happened with trying to get my attention at the next wall? I could have caught my arm or hand and injured myself. Was it that much of an emergency that the open pool paddlers got that lane that they couldn't get my attention first?
Grr.
Other swimmers just joining your lanes without even a hello and at the opposite end to where you are already starting from. Then setting off to lap as you're starting a 100 for time causing near collisions and promtping evasive actions and entaglements with the lane rope. No biggie, they at least saw what I was doing and held up in the water...well I wasn't going to stop...I was there first and "etiquette rules" are you join in with the workout in progress.
Finally, the lifeguard not getting your attention at the wall to tell you the lane rope is being removed for open swim, and just deciding the best way is to drag the lane rop on top of you. I got close to bellowing expletives at them from the water...I kept it to a rather agitated demeanour and a "I'll do the same for you!" What happened with trying to get my attention at the next wall? I could have caught my arm or hand and injured myself. Was it that much of an emergency that the open pool paddlers got that lane that they couldn't get my attention first?
Grr.
