AIBU?
To expect the kids to be out of the pool?
Writermom22 · 13/07/2017 22:39
We have a relatively new leisure centre which includes a kids pool, complete with slides, water cannons, splash pool, learners' pool and water dropper things, and across the other side of the changing area, a laned competition pool.
These are open all day every day but the laned pool use is divided into different chunks, for ladies swimming, adult swimming, family swimming, school learners' swimming, local swimming club swimming ...etc ...
So Thursday nights, 8 to 9 is adults only, and everyone who goes simply swims lengths. I've been going to these sessions for a number of weeks and swim 40 lengths. So today, I get there and there's a guy in the pool with two kids, both under 10 years old.
I get in the pool at 8pm and have done four lengths, while having to avoid kids doing roly-poly and handstands in the pool before he even attempts to get himself and his kids out.
And not one of the four members of staff said anything. Am I being unreasonable in thinking they should have been out before I even got in? If I am, then what's the point of a timetable in the first place??
Writermom22 · 13/07/2017 23:06
There were four people (including me, but not including the guy and his two kids) in the first section which spans three lanes, the next area spans two lanes and there were three people in there, then the last two lanes are roped individually, and are at the "deep end". The whole pool has a moveable floor so it can all be deep, shallow, or different depths.
At busy times they have a coloured band system with flashing lights to tell you when you're time is up, but I've only seen them used in the school holidays.
nosyupnorth · 14/07/2017 08:22
wow OP
I was siding with you for the first three paragraphs because kids , but then you said they were getting out by the time you'd done four lengths and I realized you were getting this huffy over them running over by a few minutes.
Surely you can see why the dad would be paying attention to his small children in water rather than watching the clock precisely and so got them out of the pool at a few minutes past eight and the staff were just giving a reasonable amount of leeway.
Writermom22 · 14/07/2017 09:51
@NormaSmuff I never mentioned the minutes over, just that I had done four lengths. (I'm not a fast swimmer but I don't stop, I turn at one end and swim straight back).
All that being said, why weren't they in the kids pool over the other side of the changing area if they wanted to mess about, rather than being in the lane pool where adults wanted to lane swim?
Writermom22 · 14/07/2017 10:02
@ConstanceCraving it was about 6 minutes.
I know it's not long, I'm just a bit of a stickler for things like this. I play life by the rules and expect others to do the same. My kids are 18 and 15 now and as they get older, my patience for the younger kids (and parents who don't play be the rules) is waning.
I probably was being unreasonable.
BrokenBattleDroid · 14/07/2017 10:31
I'd probably be just as annoyed as you, then get cross with myself for being such a miserly intolerant grumpy guts.
In the nicest possible way, lighten up, it feels sooo much better!
(Unless you think they were genuinely trying to ruin the lane swimmers' time? In that case, lynch them in the changing rooms next time. But I bet they weren't.)
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