Ahh, you should have tried speaking english instead ;)

I went to Paris last spring. Which I hated BTW. I found a pool to do some laps a few kilometers from our hotel. I got changed and walked to the edge of the pool. In french on the edge of the pool there were signs that clearly stated fast,medium, and slow lanes. I watch everyone for 1 lap, and decided I'm ok to jump in the fast lane. I do a slow warmup, and now I'm ready to start the the actual workout, but during the warmup, I have to wait at the end of the pool so I don't catch up to anyone. Nobody helps me out by letting me pass. I'm not French, and I'm in someone else's pool so I don't want to rub anyone the wrong way if you know what I mean. I wait until I have a bit of clear shot and start my workout, I figure I'll just do some 50's. Every time I catch up to someone but I notice there is less and less people in the lane, at first I think there were 6 of us. I keep doing 50's until I look up and notice that the lifeguard was yelling something in French at the other swimmers in the lane. I had no idea what he was saying at the time. I get a few more 50's in and decide hey, I can do some 100's now, and I notice some very pissed off Frenchmen in the Medium and Slow lanes. Then I realized that the Lifeguard was kicking them out of "my" lane. It was awesome, never seen that happen, and trust me I'm not fast at all.

I'm terrible at counting. I have used all kinds of stuff. I find marching my water bottle across the tiles helps me keep track.

I do the same thing for workout sets in the gym. Have even used pepper packets/fake rocks/keys/etc.

The harder the workout, the worse I am at counting.