Swim Rant

This was my wife's experience,so this is a vicarious rant.The Country Club where we swim sometimes has four lanes and only one lane line, separating lane 1 from the rest. Since it does not have a line on the bottom it is not preferred by lap swimmers.This is rarely a problem unless a group of kids are there or the Noodlers are having their class. Anyway my wife gets there for her workout and there is no one else in the pool.After awhile another woman arrives and proceeds to accumulate noodles so that she is reclining with her head out of the water.She then proceeds to paddle backwards randomly,with her eyes closed.When she ends up in my wife's lane at the wall at the same time my wife is trying to turn my wife stops and says politely"excuse me,I am swimming laps and this is my lane."The Noodler replies"I don't pay much attention to laps(or anything else evidently swimming both backwards and with her eyes closed),I just paddle around",like this was a reasonable explanation for her:censor::censor::censor: behavior.My wife thought"I wish my shoulder wasn't sore,I'd just swim fly",but instead she just began to swim with an extremely vigorous kick whenever the Noodler approached figuring (rightly) that rather than get her hair wet she would stay out of the way.

This was my wife's experience,so this is a vicarious rant.The Country Club where we swim sometimes has four lanes and only one lane line, separating lane 1 from the rest. Since it does not have a line on the bottom it is not preferred by lap swimmers.This is rarely a problem unless a group of kids are there or the Noodlers are having their class. Anyway my wife gets there for her workout and there is no one else in the pool.After awhile another woman arrives and proceeds to accumulate noodles so that she is reclining with her head out of the water.She then proceeds to paddle backwards randomly,with her eyes closed.When she ends up in my wife's lane at the wall at the same time my wife is trying to turn my wife stops and says politely"excuse me,I am swimming laps and this is my lane."The Noodler replies"I don't pay much attention to laps(or anything else evidently swimming both backwards and with her eyes closed),I just paddle around",like this was a reasonable explanation for her:censor::censor::censor: behavior.My wife thought"I wish my shoulder wasn't sore,I'd just swim fly",but instead she just began to swim with an extremely vigorous kick whenever the Noodler approached figuring (rightly) that rather than get her hair wet she would stay out of the way.