I've started swimming laps at the gym to counter all the concrete pounding I do every day. Pools at a gym are never big enough. The one I use has three lanes, so when you're sharing it becomes six small ones. I don't know the exact rules of sharing lanes but I've assumed that it's like the road. Stay to the right. Yesterday I got in the pool at the exact time as another woman and as she neared the end of a lap, I started off on the right and she returned on the other side. Simple, as I guessed.
After a few laps, the woman in the center lane finished and gave it over to me. Five minutes later my original partner left and the pool was entered by a man and an obese woman. Not fat. Obese. The man took the empty lane and the woman asked to share mine. Why? Cuz I'm smaller than the man? I took off and reached the other side and stopped to see where she was. She was coming down the LEFT side doing a breast stroke which basically took over three quarters of the lane. I free-styled down the left side which felt unnatural and finished at 30 laps. I was too annoyed to continue but was thankful I got that many in. That's the thing about gyms. People are in them. And to the dudes that sweat all over the machines and leave, Fuck You - bring a towel!
Posted by nora murphy at February 26, 2009 08:48 AM | TrackBack