How do you deal with a slow non-stop swimmer in your lane?

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There is a swimmer in our pool whose appearance is "dreaded" by many of us. As soon as she enters your lane and starts her laps, the whole lane gets slowed down for a at least an hour, because, #1, she never stops and never give a chance to others when she's at the end of the pool and is going for another lap while another swimmer had been waiting to start; #2, whenever she encounters someone during the laps (whether in the same or opposite direction), she would continue as if others don't exist, as if it's her own lane and as if she's thinking "get out of my way please"; #3, and that's the most important point: she's slower than all the others in the lane. So everyone else has to slow down because the lane is not so wide, and from time to time you see people try everything they could to get around her, or backstrokers hitting her from behind (and she would still go on like you were just a fly). She usually continues like this for at least one hour, could be 90 minutes. She probably has her rule in mind, to never stop during the lap. That's fine as many of people here do that, but that works only if your speed is comparable to the others sharing the lane. What's the best way to deal with such a fellow swimmer?
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  • This made me think about what happens sometimes on two-lane highways. You get one slow poke and then if one or two people are too timid to pass you end up with this long conga line of cars stuck behind the slow poke. Obviously the guy ten cars back in the queue will have a hard time passing everyone. You're out of luck until the cars immediately behind the leader get the balls to pass. In this situation the real culprits are the ones too timid to pass, not the slow poke. Same thing in the pool, as far as I'm concerned.
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  • This made me think about what happens sometimes on two-lane highways. You get one slow poke and then if one or two people are too timid to pass you end up with this long conga line of cars stuck behind the slow poke. Obviously the guy ten cars back in the queue will have a hard time passing everyone. You're out of luck until the cars immediately behind the leader get the balls to pass. In this situation the real culprits are the ones too timid to pass, not the slow poke. Same thing in the pool, as far as I'm concerned.
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