I was complained by two ladies in swimming pool

[user1472754004]

I am a regular swimmer. Got complained by two ladies who swim slowly and chatting side by side. The pool was busy and I had to occasionally swim between them. They asked the staff to talk to me saying they were there before me and I should move over in stead swim in between them. It was only a 20 meter public swim but they two occupied about two lane and swim very slowly. Be frank, I hate people swim and chat. When I swim freestyle I try to look but there might be one or two seconds that I was close to them but they have their heads up, insist swim side by side. I ask the staff, should he talk to them not blocking the whole two lanes? Annoyed! I probably need to get up at six to do the lane swim instead.

Surely two people can swim in one lane next to each other? Why did they require one lane each especially if the pool was rather crowded.

Hi everyone, thank you for your advices. First of all, English is not my first language and I typed on the phone yesterday. I probably wasn't using perfect English, or probably sounds "Trump Style", or not very polite, but it wasn't my truly intension, I just wanted to make things clear. Please look at the attached graph for the pool.

1. We should tolerate each other if the pool is busy. I agree, so I didn't make any complains, just tried to dodge around. But I probably failed to do so once or twice, because I didn't have enough room to go around them.
2. They made the complain about me. They brought this up, it seemed they were less tolerate....
3. About the pool Staff, he shouldn't just simply pass the message: "people complained about you, they were here earlier than you, so you should move over.....", though nicely. If you passed that message, that made me think that you were on their side, so it irritated me a bit. If he said, I know they shouldn't occupy too much space when the pool is busy, I have talked to them , but if you could watch carefully ......, that is why I think the staff need to be trained properly, not only for safety but also for dealing with complains, balance different pool users......
4. "Right" is out of question here. If you say you have the right to occupy certain part of the pool, then I have the right to swim there as well. It is all about within reasonable range, tolerate each other.
5. One of the lady was there this morning, she managed to engage a conversation with the pool staff, so chatting with him while she was swimming. This is wired. Again, the pool staff shouldn't chatting with the customers. Couldn't understand it at all.

OP, you use the pool to swim lengths. Other people use it for swimming and for socialising. You don't get to complaint about them using it to socialise. It's a public pool and you're there during leisure swimming, not lane swimming. The staff can chat to customers. Customers can swim and chat to each other. If you don't like it then don't use the pool during leisure swimming.
Do you realise that loneliness is an epidemic in this country? Especially for elderly people or single parents. If the pool provides a place for them to get some gebtlre exercise and some socialization, then that should be encouraged. You don't want to chat... that doesn't mean no one can. You don't make the rules.

Stop moaning and start swimming during lane sessions.

Forget the ladies who complained, I'm more worried about the baby on its own in your diagram! 😱😂

It's hard. I don't do lane swimming as I'm crap at swimming, and unfit, so wouldn't want to hold people up so I do it in the bit where people are mucking about and have to be wary of bumping into them. Though most of the time no one else seems bothered about bumping into me! But swimming pools are for swimming so if you want a chat with your friend you should either expect people to want to get past you or you should go and chat in a cafe/park/each other's houses.

*gentle exercise

Why is the baby on its own and why is it taking up a lane all by itself??

@user1472754004 what was happeni v in rhe rest of the pool that meant you couldn't swim in that part and move beside them?

This is batshit OP, just go lane swimming next time

It's not like the rest of the pool was empty and you were swimming in between them to make a point or something, it was busy and it was unreasonable of them to effectively make a moving cordon up and down the pool.

I hope you were really splashy and soaked the shit out of the hair they were trying to keep dry as you went past.

I sometimes utterly despair at the number of people on this site who are utterly intolerant and plain rude to someone who is VERY CLEARLY a non native speaker but still had the guts to post in written English online. Would those of you actally speak to them like that face to face?

Equally they could be severely dyslexic with virtually no comprehension of written English like my adult sons, similarly is teasing gloating and dare i say bullying fair or MORRALY CORRECT or dignified here either?

A public rather than private poll demands a level of give and take from all swimers. Getting repeatedly spashed violently in the face by kids deafening screams from babies and toddlers learning etc are par for the course, as are collisions and the like.

Perhaps no one is right or wong here.

Please explain the baby?

Oh but you do understand

Sorry, people are just bloody weird at the pool sometimes. I used to take my eldest to the pool to do some swimming practice, the pool would be practically empty with 5 lanes and one bit left for non lane swimming and every single time there would be one person who would lane swim in the non lane bit and get huffy and twitchy that my son was in the lane, I did point out that most of the actual lanes were empty but got ignored and the huffing and PA continued

From her diagram, it looks as if it Is lane swimming. In which case, the ladies were way out of line.

Unfortunately if it wasn't designate lane swimming then you don't have priority over them and if they were swimming there first then they can continue to do so. They've paid the same as you.
That's why there are specific lane swimming times for you to use if you wish.

I hate this!!! Either swim or get out an chat! They were being U not you op

People can swim by other people in a pool. There's no problem with you occasionally swimming between them, if, in the busy pool, that was the bit with the most room.

How do they know they were there first anyhow? You might have been over the other side.

(I go swimming, we have lanes. I am very slow. I go in the slow lane, I go around other slow swimmers or they go around me, in an anti-clockwise direction. We are all polite. No-one talks. This is how it should be. Trying to lane swim in a leisure pool is always going to be a nightmare)

I don't understand what you mean by "hate people swim and chat" or "Got complained"

Then you have extremely poor reading comprehension- maybe you can find a course to help you raise your reading age.

OP you sound really rude and aggressive.

Sorry, people are just bloody weird at the pool sometimes.
Yes, mostly people like the OP who think they're Michael Phelps and they get to decide how the inferior swimmers can behave. The only sport that attracts more nasty tossers than swimming is cycling.

I'm baffled by the baby.

It does look like these two chatters were taking up a substantial chunk of space - basically, no-one who was swimming lengths (which looks like most people) could swim in the two lanes they were, in effect, blocking. Which would be very annoying.

(Ivegot OP isn't English.)

That baby is a CF.