Swim Rant

The Noodler brings up some worthwhile points. I think he is HWINTBM and doesn't have a point. Public pools follow rules: Adult swim is, Taking what doesn't belong to you is stealing, there is no reward for rudeness, lap swimming is for lap swimming... All rants are because a swimmer was wronged by rudeness or out and out bad behavior. Neither is excusable. Don't kowtow to someone who points out the obvious but misses the sublime.:bitching:

Let's just say I didn't have to tell her twice. ;) Really though, I need a sign that reads "Amber's lane, stay the f*** out." :p 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:

As far as I am cocerned rants are good, noodlers are not. :groovy:

Friday there was a woman who just layed on her back across the lane line into my lane. I was in the middle of swimming, so it was pretty clear I was there. I was going to just run her over, but I felt like being extra bitchy, so I stopped and gave her a little talking to.

Friday there was a woman who just layed on her back across the lane line into my lane. I was in the middle of swimming, so it was pretty clear I was there. I was going to just run her over, but I felt like being extra bitchy, so I stopped and gave her a little talking to. hahaha, how did that go down?

Let's just say I didn't have to tell her twice. ;) Really though, I need a sign that reads "Amber's lane, stay the f*** out." :p

Today I will: Saunter on to the pool deck in ridiculous yellow patterned baggies. Do some Tai Chi to show everyone I'm limbering up. Join a lane with some guy, swimming relatively fast front crawl, when he is at the far end. Make sure to get on the same side that he has been swimming on since he spotted me doing Tai Chi. Only perform a really slow sort of backstroke and cause him to wonder what he ran over. Swim so slow that as he comes back down the pool he touches my toes. Giggle like a girl at him and wonder why he scowls and walks in the last 10ft of the length after having his 75 interrupted. Get out after a maximum of 100 yards and stretch on the pool deck and then leave as mysteriously as I arrived.:frustrated::frustrated::frustrated::frustrated:

The whole purpose of a swim rant, is to rant. Therefore, in a swim rant discussion you will read of people ranting. Ranting is like venting. We all need a forum to express what makes us angry and ticked off. Ranting is not looking at something objectively and from all angles. Ranting is what this discussion is and I would expect you to understand that some of us need to rant, not discuss these things logically. If you cannot understand the purpose of ranting, perhaps you should not read this thread! So, you mean I wasn’t ranting properly? I think he is HWINTBM and doesn't have a point. Jim didn’t have a point, you don’t have a point or you didn’t get my point? And HWINTBM??? He Who Is Not To Be Maimed?? Ion incarnate!!. All rants are because a swimmer was wronged by rudeness or out and out bad behavior. Neither is excusable. Similarly to how Cho Seung-Huiwas was wronged by rudeness or out and out bad behavior his Virginia Tech classmates, before he went on his killing rampage? As far as I am cocerned rants are good, noodlers are not. You’re half right.. Rants are good, but you misspelled Canadians:groovy:

And to those of you I offended with my rant, I sincerely apologize. Just remember some people will form their opinions about Masters swimmers based on what they pick up from this discussion forum. It would be a shame if they never got to know what great people Masters really are. DISCLAIMER: i would PM or email this, but seeing as how Noodles has disabled those options... there is no comparing anything that has been said on this thread to something like what happened at VT. that is a ridiculous comparision and incredibly offensive to those of us with connections to the whole situation. the immediate defense of yourself after your "apology" makes it seem that you're not really apologizing. or that you're "apologizing" to prevent yourself from being booted from the forums... next time, please think before you post.

I agree that is very frustrating when that happens... However, what does his body type and ethnicity have to do with it?