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:
Elaine, This is a sordid tale indeed. But it is only the first skirmish!
Allen is right.
You might want to lawyer up, to get access to names of real swimmers who use the pool so you can pack the meeting, and for other reasons. Tape record their lies (defamation). In a deposition, the lies might disappear.
Don't you have a disability?
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Elaine, This is a sordid tale indeed. But it is only the first skirmish!
Allen is right.
You might want to lawyer up, to get access to names of real swimmers who use the pool so you can pack the meeting, and for other reasons. Tape record their lies (defamation). In a deposition, the lies might disappear.
Don't you have a disability?
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Yikes! I can't afford a lawyer and I have a marriage to consider... (See my post back to Allen.)
Thanks ViveBene, Bzaks, gigi, and even you, the pro-noodler, Geo! :D
And, thanks to everybody else who have supported me on this thread! :bighug:
Fighting noodlers is exhausting. I gave up and joined a real swim club. It's like playing wack-a-mole with them. No matter what you do they find a new way to rise up and beat you down. They have an unlimited playbook of how to make life hell for the lap swimmer.
Attached is a letter I asked the HOA manager to distribute to the committee responsible for the pool. Meanwhile, I have asked to read the same letter at the pool users meeting, one hour from now...
Good luck.
If nothing else you have that woman pegged with 2 witnesses for physical assault...
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lets also hope that the committee doesn't target you as a problem child either... lest you both be removed from the pool.
Lets also hope that the committee doesn't target you as a problem child either... lest you both be removed from the pool.
They have no grounds; I just swim, mind my own business and follow the rules.
Fighting noodlers is exhausting. I gave up and joined a real swim club. It's like playing wack-a-mole with them. No matter what you do they find a new way to rise up and beat you down. They have an unlimited playbook of how to make life hell for the lap swimmer.
How true! Wow, did I just say that? Geek and I actually agreed on something- again! :D
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I'm so sorry to hear things turned out so badly. It is hard to have a reasonable discussion with unreasonable people; perhaps impossible.
To save you and your supportive hubby from further stress is it possible you could swim any other time during the day? I know it's hard to throw in the towel when you are being manipulated by knitwits but something tells me the "fight" is more important to this group than the pool. Chances are if you back off they will lose interest in their noodling and you might get the pool back after all. Wouldn't that be a happy ending to this SAD, sad tale.
