New species sighted on Saturday..."I'm just gonna get in your lane and swim without talking to you Guy"...I see this young dude dicking around with his goggles near my lane at the deep end...I figure he wants to share, no big deal. As I make the turn, I see he's already in the water on the other side of the lane...again, no big deal, I figure I'll talk to him down there and figure out what he wants to do. As I reach the midway mark, whoosh, he goes right past me. Hmmm, that was nice...couldn't even be bothered with a "do you mind sharing the lane"....as I reach the deep end and turn around, he's still swimming, and I've got to guess what he's gonna do next...is he gonna try and circle swim, or is he going to stay on that side? I guess he's going to stay over there, since that's what 99% of the folks around here do if there's only two people in the lane (plus I think that's the rule posted somewhere...2 people to a lane, you split, 3+ you circle swim), so I head back on the other side. Sure enough, half-way down....whammo! Big collision...I stand up, fairly annoyed, and he....keeps going! Doesn't even bother to say anything. So, now that I know we are circle swimming, start following him. Eventually, he stops, since I am catching him, and I (in a nice way) tell him that its just common courtesy to let the other guy know what the plan is. He was quite sheepish about it, so I couldn't really stay annoyed with him. This is the second time this has happened to me at this pool...is it really that hard to let somebody know you are going to getting into the lane? Its really not a big deal, but I'm not a big fan of whacking skulls together, either.

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Has anyone mentioned HORNY TEENAGE COUPLE? - The soon to be teenage mother/father doing who knows what with their hands under the water. Usually its the guy who is the aggressive one, and keeps trying to kiss the girl and trying to get her up against the wall(although the girl doesn't really try to get away)....Since they aren't allowed to go to eachothers house anymore, they have their parents drop them off at the YMCA so they can try and make babies in the pool!

Has anyone mentioned HORNY TEENAGE COUPLE? - The soon to be teenage mother/father doing who knows what with their hands under the water. Usually its the guy who is the aggressive one, and keeps trying to kiss the girl and trying to get her up against the wall(although the girl doesn't really try to get away)....Since they aren't allowed to go to eachothers house anymore, they have their parents drop them off at the YMCA so they can try and make babies in the pool!

That's me when I'm spending more than ten hours a week in the pool. The skin on the bottom of my feet starts to crack badly with too much cholrine exposure, and with the cracks and the new, unprotected skin down there, walking across pool tile without flip flips or shoes on ends up becoming physically painful.

I tried darn near every skin product available, and nothing would stop it from happening.

Christ man...new gym has a Co-Ed whirlpool. Not many adults in there....I actually made a sign "Hands must remain above the water surface at all times" and used this image on it. It was posted for about a day.