Swim Rant

Looking for a place to swim tomorrow... I usually swim at a 25m pool in a hotel athletic club that's less than 500m from my back porch, almost always yields at least one completely empty lane (2 lanes for lap swimming guaranteed 6am-10pm), and has always been populated with divinely accommodating and polite non-swimming pool users. But someone drove a van into its roof. My small piece of swimming paradise is closed. So, let's see, there are within 15 miles of me, nine more 25m pools (ten, if you count the dive tank), one 50m pool, and one 50m comp pool, and I am having trouble figuring out where to go because all of them schedule their length swimming AT THE EXACT SAME INCONVENIENT &*%^# TIME! Who thinks up the schedules, and why has no one drowned them yet?

He must have been very drunk. How else does one collide with a hotel?

He must have been very drunk. How else does one collide with a hotel? Could the hotel have been in the wrong lane? (Hotels do have a very high alcohol content, what with their bars, salons, saloons and mini-bars.....). You can bet the driver's Insurance company lawyers will find a way where the hotel was at-fault.

Could the hotel have been in the wrong lane? (Hotels do have a very high alcohol content, what with their bars, salons, saloons and mini-bars.....). You can bet the driver's Insurance company lawyers will find a way where the hotel was at-fault. What I can't figure is what the van was doing on the hotel pool roof. :confused:

My pet hate is the unsupervised delinquents in the locker rooms or the showers. You know how tha shower is the reward for ahard swim...soaping up and stretching out enjoying a warm glow in your muscles...then in come a bunch of pre-teens shouting and having a waterfight or screeching in the shower...etc Yeah! My club pool has a communal shower with 4 shower heads for a lot of kids who finish right before closing as do the Masters. Usually 3 of them will share a showerhead but they don't want an adult sharing with them. The shrieking and the shampoo fights are very annoying too. So I wait until they are all mostly finished and leave the lockerroom, then I have to hurry through before the coaching staff gets mad that I am making them stay late. This gets worse as the kids get closer to their championships meets and are having shorter workouts. They have way too much energy left over after practice.

Could the hotel have been in the wrong lane? (Hotels do have a very high alcohol content, what with their bars, salons, saloons and mini-bars.....). You can bet the driver's Insurance company lawyers will find a way where the hotel was at-fault. This is the funniest thing I've read today.

I hope the Van drivers looses his permit to drive.

Could the hotel have been in the wrong lane? (Hotels do have a very high alcohol content, what with their bars, salons, saloons and mini-bars.....). You can bet the driver's Insurance company lawyers will find a way where the hotel was at-fault. You make some very good points! There are so many hotels in this neighbourhood, collisions are almost inevitable. We're fortunate that the buildings don't collide with one another too often. The legal ramifications of such would be hard to fathom, I think. What I can't figure is what the van was doing on the hotel pool roof. :confused: Oh, that does sound weird. :) The pool is below ground level, with a glass roof that extends out from the side of the building. It's really a window, from the outside. But when you're in the pool, it looks like the roof to me.

But it can be frustrating sometimes to find lap swimmers squeezed out of space and/or time for our pursuits. You'd think that with the weight management problems in our society, pools should encourage more adults to work out in serious ways. There wouldn't be any lakes or beaches near you that would give you some compatible swimming times? Well, you'd think pool managers could work out schedules that don't compete, so that if, for example, pool A has length swimming from 11am to 12pm, then perhaps pool B might consider moving length swimming from the same time to 12pm to 1pm. This way everyone -- bathers, noodlers, aquafitters, and length swimmers -- would all find they had expanded options. But I suppose even though these are city sponsored recreational centres, they *are* competing very heavily for what is actually a rather small membership. Aside from the accident at the hotel, I'd normally find swimming at Commonwealth Place to be a decent option, since there are often a ton of empty lanes in extremely lovely water on the weekends. But their schedule mentions a water polo tournament, and I wouldn't begrudge these athletes their use of the pool. As it was, "stroke correction" time at the Y yesterday meant 1 guy teaching a beginner in one lane, and me with the rest of the pool to myself. That worked out very nicely.

This is one of the reasons I love where I swim - 18 & older locker rooms. I only have to negotiate kid bedlam when I'm there with my daughter. 18 & older locker rooms. What a wonderful concept! My pool has a few "family-changing rooms" but they don't seem to get much use.