Swimming pool etiquette

No. It is thoughtless and inconsiderate.
I used to go swimming regularly, in a private and expensive gym pool, and there were two women who somehow managed to take up the two thirds of the pool, one third being reserved for fast swimmers, by walking up and down very slowly and stopping every two or three minutes for a chat. They could have walked at the edge of the pool, but somehow managed to spread across all the available swimming space available, so all the other swimmers used to crash into each other.

I used to swim at masters level and once stopped at the deep end to adjust my goggles. In a matter of seconds, another swimmer executed a perfect tumble turn using my back to push off. I've never got in another lane swimmer's way since..... Seriously, there is a general etiquette when lane swimming but in the absence of lanes, I think it's definitely up to the 'lapper' to be considerate and not plough into other people.

We get swimming ‘ rage’ in our pool! We have lanes for serious swimmers, but always get the slow swimmers trying to overtake the really slow swimmers, like lorries on the motorway! If people stand around , we regulars ask them to move to the other side, or swim. The lifeguards never notice!

Tough, I always did widths, could swim, hated deep water

My local pool has certain sessions just for lane swimming. I don’t like this, I either feel I have to go faster so I don’t hold others up, or am treading water behind slow swimmers. It stops people chatting at the end however.
I try and go to non lane sessions, also hate women swimming in pairs talking and looking annoyed if anyone dares to go through the middle of them.
I would like my own private pool really.
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beswitched I've given up swimming because of the conflict you have identified. It's all about too many people and not enough public resources. It seems to me that swimming pools are for swimming as suggested by the name. Those who want to chat could easily chat elsewhere but no, let's be unkind, the English way.
BTW, it's quite hard to swim crawl properly without splashing.

If they don’t have ‘lane* swimming then it free swimming, they have as much right to stand around or potter around as you do swimming up and down I’m afraid.

It is the splashy front crawl swimmers who annoy me. They do not need to splash so much.

I’m afraid I develop poolrage, but it’s mostly for those determined up and downers who seem to think they don’t have to accommodate other pool users with a little swerve, a slowing of pace and who think the end of the pool is there especially for them to perform their turn before ploughing back through anyone else that they think is in their space.

I have been known to deliberately float in the path of a “this is my lane, out of my way” in an open pool where the signs clearly say casual swimming.

I’m just constantly amazed by the ladies who swim up and down the pool chatting as they go. It’s all I can do to remember to breathe, let alone chat!?

I should go for health reasons but don't because I am a poor swimmer and am worried about people like yourself who feel I am in the way.I don't chatter with friends though.

Our pool has set times for families, classes and serious swimmers.

I'm not a fast swimmer which is why I don't go in the fast lane. But even ordinary swimmers find it dicfi8to avoid banging into people who ard just standing talking in a group at the end of the pool.

Some people like myself go to the pool just to relieve their aching limbs and that won't happen in a steam room and my leisure centre doesn't have a Jacuzzi. I do swim as well for some of the time. What my swimming companions and myself hate is inconsiderate fast swimmers, who crash into us, when they could go in the lanes reserved for strong swimmers. The comments work both ways, I'm afraid.

An already busy pool I meant.

Damn phone.