Hi! New guy to the forums here, and pretty new to lap swimming too -- I've been doing it since May sometime.
More than once when I've wanted to join someone in a lane I've found it difficult to get their attention. At first I thought people just didn't want to share, but then I paid attention while I was swimming and realized that when you're looking at the bottom of the pool it is indeed easy to miss someone standing on the edge.
So what do you do? I've taken to dangling my feet deep enough that they're hard to miss, but is this obnoxious? Does anybody have pointers for getting someone's attention without annoying them when you need to share a lane?
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I used to swim at 24 Hour Fitness. Like most people, I like to have a lane to myself, but I'm aware I don't own the lane. If the pool starts getting crowded, I'll swim to the side so someone can get in without stopping me, but if the pool is empty, I admit, I get lazy and sort of drift in the center. Anyway, this guy gets in without telling me, I'm not wearing my contacts so I can't see him. When I get to the wall, I ask him very nicely to inform the person that you want to share. He proceeds to call me a **itch, goes on about how I think I'm so much better then everyone else and that he doesn't need to "ask permission" and so on. My husband was close to killing him and 24 Hour Fitness being 24 Hour Fitness didn't do a darn thing.
I swim at Bally's now and it's so much nicer. They have 2 6-lane pools so when I swim on my own, it's actually very rare that I have to share and I also find that people actually swim there as opposed to noodling :)
I used to swim at 24 Hour Fitness. Like most people, I like to have a lane to myself, but I'm aware I don't own the lane. If the pool starts getting crowded, I'll swim to the side so someone can get in without stopping me, but if the pool is empty, I admit, I get lazy and sort of drift in the center. Anyway, this guy gets in without telling me, I'm not wearing my contacts so I can't see him. When I get to the wall, I ask him very nicely to inform the person that you want to share. He proceeds to call me a **itch, goes on about how I think I'm so much better then everyone else and that he doesn't need to "ask permission" and so on. My husband was close to killing him and 24 Hour Fitness being 24 Hour Fitness didn't do a darn thing.
I swim at Bally's now and it's so much nicer. They have 2 6-lane pools so when I swim on my own, it's actually very rare that I have to share and I also find that people actually swim there as opposed to noodling :)
