Swimming pool was more like a talking pool!

The effrontery!
Chatting to friends while keeping cool?
What is the world coming to?

Witzend

Shelflife

Witzend , I fully understand that . I am not a strong swimmer but like to get the lengths in . It is infuriating when people gather at the end chatting !!! I save the chat for coffe in the cafe later !

There’s a jacuzzi right by the David Lloyd pool, and a sauna and a steam room, plus a very nice club room with plenty of comfortable seating, plus coffee/tea/snacks etc. available, so I do wonder why they can’t do some of their chatting in one of those.
I’m going again tomorrow, so let’s hope it was a bit of a one-off.

I'd hope others could politely chatter in another area.

People become more rude by the day, imo,

I went to a brilliant pool complex when I was visiting GD in Australia. Indoors was a baby pool. a toddlers pool and a larger pool divided into lanes, which were for walking, slow. medium and fast lanes There was also a large outdoor pool .
I have not got back to swimming since Covid. I do miss it, I need more motivation. A night at a hotel next month, which has a pool might get me back on track

Aren't the lanes roped off to prevent gatherings of chatting people? And if not, aren't there sessions purely for lane swimming, and purely for the general swim? It's unreasonable to expect to do lane swimming during a general swim, and vice versa. I would have thought the lifeguards would have enforced the rules since there's clearly a safety issue if the two are mixed.

I mainly do back stroke so gently tell anyone 'hogging' the shallow end to natter that I would really hate to bash into them but often cannot see the end of my lane until I touch each end of the pool. They then move without complaint

Yes, it’s as though they are entitled to do just as they wish. Ok, so they’ve paid to use the pool……… but it’s a ‘swimming pool’……the clue is in the description! I’d be annoyed too !