It's 3:35 a.m. here on East Coast and I can't sleep. Have to wake up for long run at 5 anyway, so why not spend time on ST for a while.
Good thread. Here are my pool pet peeves from my local LA Fitness:
1. I don't understand those ladies at the pool who must walk up and down in a lane while sipping on their 800 calorie smoothie at the same time. What could they possibly hope to accomplish? I guess it is a purely social call for them since their calorie intake exceeds the 5 min of walking time. I just wish they wouldn't take up a lane just to talk. There is a Starbucks right outside the gym.
2. I also don't understand those folks who would rather sit on the side of the pool for an hour rather than share your lane with you. If I ever see somebody waiting for a lane, I always offer to share. Kinda pisses me off when they decline, especially if they sit there waiting. Makes me feel like I need to rush my workout so they can have their own lane.
3. Not that it effects me, but what about those basketball guys who play for an hour and are soaking wet, and then they come and plop themselves down in the hot tub by the pool without the decency of showering off before. What's up with that? I don't ever get in the hot tub myself, maybe that is why.
4. What about when the gym mgr comes in to show another prospect the pool and they are caked in perfume? Why does the pool heighten your nose's ability to pick up on horrible smells? Sometimes these ladies just kill me when they walk in for 30 seconds.
5. How about those pool guys who are always a little suspect when they are "cleaning" the pool at wired times? They always seem to lurk around just a little bit too long for my liking.
6. Not that I'm particularly fond of jammers, but what about the guy who comes in trying to swim, but his knee length baggie shorts are filling up like a parachute and he wonders why his splits are so slow. Dudes gonna get fast when he loses the shorts.
7. What about the older guy who thinks he needs to use the swim suit spinner in the locker room for 10 minutes or so to get his suit dry. Can't stand that sound for more than 5 seconds at a time. He might as well be doing his laundry up there and using it as his clothes dryer.
8. We also have naked guy doing the shaving, but last week I see two or three teen to early 20s guys sitting in the locker room lounge watching ESPN's coverage of the National Spelling Bee on the tube. First of all I have a hard time wondering why ESPN considers that to be a sport worth watching (I know it is a competition, but isn't there a re-run of the world's strongest man comp they could play again). But why are these guys interested in this. Don't they have jobs to get to?
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9. I have one of those Finnis SwimP3 players. When I put in ear plugs, swim cap, get my workout out, water bottle, and put on the swimP3, get the music volume adjusted, and just about to start my interval, that is when the guy/gal next to me wants to ask about the swimP3. Since I can't hear a thing I have to pull it off and still struggle to hear them with plugs in. Boy I hate that.
I must also confess that I do sound like somebody that an early post discussed. I am that guy with the swim bag that has everything in it. No, there aren't any old sandwiches or sunday newspapers hidden in there, but I have found old water bottles, half eaten energy bars, goggles that I thought were lost, and old jammers that need to be thrown out. I leave the kick board in the car trunk since I don't really use it, but the hand paddles, bouy, flippers, swimP3, etc. and about 2 dozen swim caps from old races are all in there.
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