Squabble at the pool
Today at lunch, i visited the local community center for an afternoon swim. Besides my usual workout, i learned a lot about the true colors of people. The Younger Generation, my age range - 25 to 35, do not have respect for our elders or anyone else for that matter.
Besides me in the pool, the entire pool was full of 65+ older adults out for a leisure swim (lots of back and breast stroke). In walk two guys (around 30 to 35 years old - We will call them Punk #1 and Punk #2) dressed in street shorts or some ugly board shorts.. I personally could not tell. This older Korean gentlemen that was swimming told them that they need to shower before getting in the pool and he would be happy to share a lane with them. (Im hearing this between my sets). Once i finish my final 300 i hear Punk #1 scream, "Shut the f**k up, i told you that i F'ing showered at home. Don't ever F'ing talk to me again, shut up." Please keep in mind, there is about 7 other swimmers in the pool, and at the end of the pool in the kiddy section is about 15 to 20 kids between the ages of 3 to 5 years old with their parents. At this point Punk #2 jumped into calm down Punk #1. Then Punk #1 kept screaming, "Go get the f*ing manager!! Go get the F*ing manager! I am tired of hearing this guy talk to like this. I don't have to put up with this!!!"
YUP, i was finished swimming at this point... Then some lifeguards approached and i said i am DONE with this BS. Seriously, what is wrong with people... I do not care if you are getting degraded by this little old Korean man, you do not raise your voice and swear at him. There should be some level of respect for our elders, people around you, and young children. What the hell is wrong with people!
Sorry, i had to share.
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Lifeguards should have been on that a lot sooner.
I probably would have gotten myself into trouble, had I found myself witnessing that. And then had to find another pool.
Last year I went to my pool at LA Fitness for my swim and the pool was busy. It's a 4 lane pool and all lanes were doubled up except for one so I walk over to the one single lane. I wait for the guy who is in his fifties to finish his set so I can ask to split the lane. He refuses to acknowledge that I'm standing there waiting going so far as to stop on the opposite side of the pool between his sets. I kneel down to his level as he comes around and as he turns just waves his finger in a no way manner. Well this is not a private pool it's a gym so I get in on one side of the lane thinking I'm dealing with a normal person.
He comes back around stops and just explodes in a narrative of expletives that put Wolf of Wall Street to shame. He told me that he does not share lanes at all and told me to F myself and get the F out of his lane and the pool etc. At one point he got in my face like he was going to do something more. I asked him real nice if he was threatening me as the rest of the pool just watched not believing what was going on.
Long and short of it was I went out got the manager and he went on a tirade with him too on how when he joined he didn't expect to have to share lanes because of his shoulder condition.
I went back and finished my swim and funny part is I still see the dude a couple of times a week but he doesn't say much to me now and when the pool is crowded he just sits on side waiting for an open lane, way to go big shot.
It's a shame that people like Punk#1, Punk#2 and my jovial fellow exist just about everywhere these days.
@Attila - WOW, that person needs to purchase their own pool. My local X-Sport does not allow more than 1 person per lane so their members can have an enjoyable swim... while the 10 other people wait on the side of the pool for someone to finish their 3000 Meters of leisure backstroke/kickboard
And don't even get me started on idiot drivers who act like my bike on the shoulder of the road is going to make them 45 minutes late to work. People forget that life is much better when you just try to be HAPPY and PLEASANT.
I know there are a few people I try to avoid sharing a lane with who have been CONSIDERABLY less rude than that...
Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands, they just don't.