One 100 free to go in set. Two open lanes.(no lane lines in pool) Noodler comes over to stand in my lane to talk with friend. Pool is set at 85 degrees cause all the noodlers say it is to cold otherwise. I complain to guard, am told, "well there are a lot more of them then there are lap swimmers" Wont be if they keep this up. UGH! :frustrated:
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...The scenerio: 4 lane lap pool. (kept at 85 degrees, because it is to cold for the rudeler noodlers otherwise) 10 minutes until rudelers class starts....
This needs to be nipped in the bud. At my community pool, the aquasizers were getting in 10 minutes early...then 14... then 16... then 20. Finally the lifeguards (we have GREAT lifeguards) told them they had to wait until their class actually began to get in.
Then there was the instructor of the 7:30-8:30 p.m. class who would consistantly let her class run 10 minutes over into the remaining one hour lap swim and shriek like a banshee at any swimmer who dared to climb in on time. Haven't seen her in a while. I think that she - and many other "noodlers" - tend to see the lap swim times as a blank spot on the schedule that hasn't been filled with anything in particular.
You paid just as much for your membership or drop-in as any of them (maybe less, if they're getting a seniors discount) so your lap swim is just as important, even if there are more of them. I suspect it just seems like there are more of them, as they tend to all congregate in the same spot at the same time.
...The scenerio: 4 lane lap pool. (kept at 85 degrees, because it is to cold for the rudeler noodlers otherwise) 10 minutes until rudelers class starts....
This needs to be nipped in the bud. At my community pool, the aquasizers were getting in 10 minutes early...then 14... then 16... then 20. Finally the lifeguards (we have GREAT lifeguards) told them they had to wait until their class actually began to get in.
Then there was the instructor of the 7:30-8:30 p.m. class who would consistantly let her class run 10 minutes over into the remaining one hour lap swim and shriek like a banshee at any swimmer who dared to climb in on time. Haven't seen her in a while. I think that she - and many other "noodlers" - tend to see the lap swim times as a blank spot on the schedule that hasn't been filled with anything in particular.
You paid just as much for your membership or drop-in as any of them (maybe less, if they're getting a seniors discount) so your lap swim is just as important, even if there are more of them. I suspect it just seems like there are more of them, as they tend to all congregate in the same spot at the same time.
