Today I had got some improvement plan in my mind and imagined a nice two hour swim this afternoon. I got to the pool after some one and half hour train ride, changed into my swimsuit, started my laps. No sooner than I had swum for maybe 2 laps, the pool staff told me the pool had to be closed and I must get out immediately. I asked why, since it's supposed to close at 8pm, and it's not even 5pm yet. The answer: the lifeguard on duty had not shown up. Of course, without a lifeguard you can't swim.
So that's my afternoon, 3 hours round train trip to swim for 2 laps :bitching:
I've met two other abrupt closing at the same pool (I must have had a very bad luck), but those two were excusable: once there was no water in the building (except for the uncirculated water in the pool), no toilet or shower available. The other time, there was a fire alarm. (How ironic, these two reasons.)
But lifeguard not showing up? and we must get out immediately? (I swam two laps, and I saw a couple of swimmers just got wet and hadn't started the first lap yet.)
Anyone had similar bad experience? I'm still pondering what was the reason the guard didn't show up. The pool remains closed for the rest of the day.
tjrpatt, that was bad, too. How far was the high school from you then? Hope it didn't take you 1-2 hours to get there and found it closed. It feels especially terrible when they virtulaly pull you out of the water when you just started. I could have spent this afternoon doing something more pleasant and productive, today being a gorgeous warm sunny day :mad: Lump, one of the managers was the one who ordered us to get out of the water, and said it was an "emergency", that we had no reason to complain against the facility because it's that particular guard's problem.
the pool is less than a mile from me so it wasn't as awful as your experience.
tjrpatt, that was bad, too. How far was the high school from you then? Hope it didn't take you 1-2 hours to get there and found it closed. It feels especially terrible when they virtulaly pull you out of the water when you just started. I could have spent this afternoon doing something more pleasant and productive, today being a gorgeous warm sunny day :mad: Lump, one of the managers was the one who ordered us to get out of the water, and said it was an "emergency", that we had no reason to complain against the facility because it's that particular guard's problem.
the pool is less than a mile from me so it wasn't as awful as your experience.
