Death to all Noodlers!

I've probably already complained about this, but once the noodle class closed my lap while I was still swimming (about 10 minutes before the class was due to start). There I was, swimming away, when I was suddenly trapped between the lanelines. They'd just pushed it over until I couldn't swim any more. One of the Noodle classes at my pool has started doing something like this systematically 5 to 10 minutes before every class to clear out all lap swimmers. Then they will say something like, "Oh! It isn't 9 yet, you still have 5 minutes left!" and then get out of the way until class starts, then they disrupt any remaining swimmers again. I think they have it down to a well-rehearsed routine because I've had it done to me (there I was, swimming a tough fly set, and all of a sudden, a lane line and a small pack of rabid bloated women are in front of me!), and I've watched it be done to others a few times now. Pisses me off, because you are supposed to be able to swim laps during classes. I've considered fighting this out and bringing it up with the management. Anything that makes me as mad as this has, is just the sort of thing I tend to stand up against. But for now, I don't want to swim upstream on this. It's a total of two hours out of the whole week, day or night, that it makes the pool off limits for me-- whereas I used to struggle to work out at a pool that was hardly ever open. Even though it looks like a waste of time to me, these gals really love coming to this class, and belonging to their group. For now, they've successfully bossed cute little me right out of the pool.

I've probably already complained about this, but once the noodle class closed my lap while I was still swimming (about 10 minutes before the class was due to start). There I was, swimming away, when I was suddenly trapped between the lanelines. They'd just pushed it over until I couldn't swim any more. One of the Noodle classes at my pool has started doing something like this systematically 5 to 10 minutes before every class to clear out all lap swimmers. Then they will say something like, "Oh! It isn't 9 yet, you still have 5 minutes left!" and then get out of the way until class starts, then they disrupt any remaining swimmers again. I think they have it down to a well-rehearsed routine because I've had it done to me (there I was, swimming a tough fly set, and all of a sudden, a lane line and a small pack of rabid bloated women are in front of me!), and I've watched it be done to others a few times now. Pisses me off, because you are supposed to be able to swim laps during classes. I've considered fighting this out and bringing it up with the management. Anything that makes me as mad as this has, is just the sort of thing I tend to stand up against. But for now, I don't want to swim upstream on this. It's a total of two hours out of the whole week, day or night, that it makes the pool off limits for me-- whereas I used to struggle to work out at a pool that was hardly ever open. Even though it looks like a waste of time to me, these gals really love coming to this class, and belonging to their group. For now, they've successfully bossed cute little me right out of the pool.