AIBU to not want to be the only swimmer?

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I booked into swimming at the local swim centre, I go there quite often as it's local but a bit small and grotty. I turned up and changed to find there was no one else booked into my session. I felt super awkward so I got dressed and left again.

AIBU to just bugger off? There are other sessions after mine so it's not like the staff are there just for me but it felt very awkward to be swimming up and down in silence with just a lifeguard watching me.

Yabu, I’d have loved to have a pool to myself

Having the whole pool to myself is my favourite thing personally!!

I would love it - other swimmers can be annoying, enjoy the peace.

Perfect! No one getting in the way, lovely and peaceful, sounds great!

I was away recently and the pool was totally empty in the morning, just me and the life guard and it was the dream! I don’t want smelly splashy people in my way

Noooo! That’s like the dream of swimming. The pool to yourself is such a luxury!

Wow, that's my dream - having the pool all to myself! I was often the first in the pool when they still did timed sessions coming out of lockdown and loved it. So YABU to just leave!

I would feel like I'd won the lottery, having the pool to myself would be heaven.

I love an empty pool, I go down early in hotels before the kids get up

That's called millionaires swimming in my house.

I'd have loved that.

Yabu being the only person in the pooo is one of life's small pleasures. One of my favourite things is when you're the first person in the pool and create ripples in the water

It would be lovely in a hotel, but a public pool with a personal lifeguard would feel very uncomfortable!

See in a lovely holiday resort in the sun I can see it...in a grotty leisure centre pool with a teenage lifeguard watching me huff and puff up and down for 45 mins...less so!

Wtf, you mad act, that’s the best sort of swim!!

Are you mad? A pool to yourself is a swimmer's dream! I've had that happen just once, and I didn't for a moment consider what the lifeguard was doing.

I think you need to be a little less self-conscious.

I love having the pool to myself at the gym. Usually within 15 minutes someone else comes in but the times when I am by myself are great! Lifeguard couldn’t care less I imagine.

You got changed then got dressed again without swimming? Surely that's more awkward than doing what you went there for?

The lifeguard was probably dreaming about what he'd have for his tea or what he was going to do at the weekend, not watching you swim.

I was a lifeguard, one of my favourite jobs. If there was only one person in I didn't pay them much attention tbh. You could tell from the sounds of the water if they were still swimming. I would probably take the chance to do some water testing or tidying up round the poolside rather than just sit and look at you.

I don’t know if you’re unreasonable but I think you’re unusual - most swimmers (me certainly included) would bloody love it!

Unless it’s synchronized lessons, swimming is an individual sport. Why would it matter if there are other people in the pool?

But that's the dream, no-one else to piss me off.

Bloody amazing having the pool to myself. Absolute favourite thing. Next best is having a lane to myself.

Back in the dark ages, when I was a young lifeguard, I would far rather have been watching a swimmer than scrubbing the changing rooms or cleaning windows so YABU.

I can assure you whilst the lifeguard has to "watch" you to a certain extent they are not watching watching you. They aren't silently judging your stroke or choice of swimming costume. They have seen so many swimmers they really don't give a shit

Nope would love it. Waterproof earphones I'd be in heaven