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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LUCKILY the noodlers keep to ONE of the pools most of the time....they have it like 84 degrees in that pool...its consistently 80 degrees in the lap pool...which is too cold for noodles :)...I DID see a noodler get lost in the lap pool last week...she was just sitting on her noodle...floating in the middle of a lane...in the sun that was coming thru the sun roof....I just laughed.
Exactly what our pool has, Fast lane, cicuit lane, and slow lane. The only trouble is that people cannot read.
One of our pools even caters to over-inflated egos.
Lanes are
Fast
Medium Fast
Medium
(Leisure for noodlers and stand-arounds-chatting)
No "slow" lane and yet everyone thinks they're F@st.
(Or else, as George suggests, they can't even read and understand
a four-letter word that starts with "F" followed by a vowel and two consonants.)
I cant resist this one... recently doing a set of 75's which therfore require me to stop at the end of the pool most heavily populated with Noodlers. During my stops at that end, become nauseated from heavy perfume on surface of water. Just wondering...who says to themselves,"Suit, check, tennis shoes, check, noodle, check, perfume, check...ready to go."?
Oh yes!!!There is this one woman who is in charge of the class and when she walks onto the pool deck I start to gag from the fumes.She comes in 20 min before the class to set up,it is very annoying.
I had an older lady ask me today "Why do you need to splash like that when you swim. I was not taught to swim that way". And then she proceeds to show me her "stroke".
I don't get it. If you are afraid of getting wet, why are you in a pool, let alone in a lap lane?
I wish there was a rule banning anyone from wearing Polo near the pool premises. it seems to be the strongest scent product I've encountered yet. It's definitely headache-producing for somebody who actually ... swims ... in the swimming pool. Normally I like the smell OK but it just intensifies too much for somebody who gets sweaty lifting weights or other dryland workout, then gets into the pool to relax.
It's funny to see how the ads at the top of the page change to suit the thread topic. Before I logged in there was one for a "Catfish noodling weapon", which has now vanished. Was it a fierce trained attack catfish that eats noodles? I'll have to click on it next time to find out.
Funny you should mention catfish noodling. I just found out yesterday that some of my relatives (through marriage) has some experience with this.
YouTube - Catfish Noodling
The guys in the video are cheating, though. They're using rubber gloves and sleeves. I was under the impression that it involved bare arms and copious amounts of whiskey.
As I just referenced the Borat-style swimsuit in another thread, it occurs to me that wearing one and enthusiastically joining the the noodlers for a moment could well clear them from the pool.
Now I see noodlers and slack lane lines a good opportunity to train for open water. There's one class that turns the pool into a veritable washing machine. I'm convinced I could swim along the North Shore after that.
It's funny to see how the ads at the top of the page change to suit the thread topic. Before I logged in there was one for a "Catfish noodling weapon", which has now vanished. Was it a fierce trained attack catfish that eats noodles? I'll have to click on it next time to find out.
On Sunday my usual pools were closed so I went to the Talisman Center, where as luck would have it a 50m pool was available. :applaud:
The other 50m pool was divided with a bulkhead, making three, count em, three pools for lap swimming. So a lady with perfectly coiffed dry hair passes up the two easy 25m pools and joins my lane in the 50, doing a dog paddle/*** stroke hybrid. She wasn't in my way, but I found it baffling that she'd choose to share a longer lane with people who were passing her every three or four laps. In the case of the very quick young swimmer who was doing intervals in the lane, every two laps. :confused:
You obviously didn't watch Sea Hunt as a kid. You couldn't really consider it an actual episode if Lloyd Bridges didn't nail a bad guy with a spear gun. :)
