Swim Rant

This is not necessarily a rant, but this thread still seems the appropriate place to post this. I've never seen this happen before. I train alone at a gym pool that has narrow lanes. The other day, each lane was occupied with one swimmer. I was one of them, swimming a butterfly main set. Some Other Guy came out of the locker room and flagged me down in the middle of the set, right at my interval. He asked me to split the lane. I shifted over, said "fine" and pushed off 5 seconds late for my next swim. He hopped in and swam with me, the only butterflyer in the pool. He was slow; many times I had to be careful not to whack him upside the head. By open-swim chance, every other lane had a swimmer much closer to his speed... but they were all female. I realized, that poor guy must be so terrified to speak to a woman, that instead he opted to share a narrow lane with a butterflyer. Nope, never seen that before.

This is not necessarily a rant, but this thread still seems the appropriate place to post this. I've never seen this happen before. I train alone at a gym pool that has narrow lanes. The other day, each lane was occupied with one swimmer. I was one of them, swimming a butterfly main set. Some Other Guy came out of the locker room and flagged me down in the middle of the set, right at my interval. He asked me to split the lane. I shifted over, said "fine" and pushed off 5 seconds late for my next swim. He hopped in and swam with me, the only butterflyer in the pool. He was slow; many times I had to be careful not to whack him upside the head. By open-swim chance, every other lane had a swimmer much closer to his speed... but they were all female. I realized, that poor guy must be so terrified to speak to a woman, that instead he opted to share a narrow lane with a butterflyer. Nope, never seen that before.