Territorial dispute in swimming pool

[tamade]

I am lucky enough to have a proper lunch break and at least three times a week I go to a nearby hotel and swim a mile, sometimes 2km.

Today I was alone in the pool and started swimming in lane two (of four) which is one lane away from the side closest to the changing rooms entrance. About 30 min later a man got in and stated to swim in lane 1. Five minutes after that he changed into my lane. I caught up with him at the far end and when he turned he looked at me swimming toward him and seemed surprised (surprised I hadn't moved lanes?). He then kicked off the wall and swam beneath me and under the lane divider into lane three. Not long after I finished up and went to get changed. Before exiting I looked back and sure enough he had moved back into lane two, which I presume is "his". And based on that I believe that he was trying to claim lane 2 when he initially moved in.

He is another regular I have seen him coming as I am going although we don't usually use the pool at the same time.

I think this is knobish behaviour

I didn't say it was a club swim, I said it's not abnormal to do this, especially if you've previously swam in a club.

OP you are wasting your time, chewing over what was going on in his mind !!

he may have been :
thinking about dinner, work, holiday, how fast he is swimming, whatever !!!

you will never be able to read minds, so stop stressing over what he may have been thinking and move on !!

#mindreadingisacognitivedistortion !

Here we have todays 'reasons to hate men' thread.

With a lunch break at 5am. 😂

It's not 'hers'.

So many male apologists in here 🤢

Again, have you ignored all the other explanations as to why he might have ended up in there.

Blokes gonna bloke. No where is safe from them

She was already using it ffs!

Nope, just people who don't jump to conclusions based on anecdotes. HTH.

That doesn't make it 'hers'.

It makes it already occupied.

She doesn't own the pool or the lane ,she also didn't want him to use " her" lane after she got out ,someone's entitled here...

Because they're absolutely risible

And?
I don't get to exclude other users from a lane just because I'm already in it (unless it's a max capacity already).
Perhaps female only sessions would suit those who cannot bear to be remotely near or share with any males.

No, she mentioned that he moved back to lane 2 after she got out because it is an indicator that he specifically wanted lane 2. (Rather than that he accidentally chose the only occupied lane because he didn't have his glasses on and only realised when he was forced to swim under the OP.)

According to you. 🫣

No, but there is also no good reason to choose an occupied lane when there are three free lanes available.

And? Maybe he likes it for the same reason she does? Some lanes are better than others, or so it seems.

Because she made thst up her head that was why he was doing it.

It's hard to know what really happened here. Either he was trying to push you out of his favorite lane or he's just not that great a swimmer and has trouble staying in his own lane.

Either way, he let it go and moved on fairly quickly, so now you can too.

Who cares why he likes it? He clearly got in it hoping to make the OP annoyed/uncomfortable enough to move out of "his" lane.

It's the most likely explanation.

According to you.
I've been at our local pool where me and the 1 other person end up in the same lane, we manage fine. Shock, horror, it's often a male. 🫣

But she was clearly alone in the pool so the man did not need to even go in her lane. If more people arrived, fair game but she was alone!

Your a mind reader now are you ?