Local pool

wifeforlife

Called my local pool to find out what night was ladies swim and what times, to be told ladies night is no more, and it's adult swims only now.

Seemingly it was discrimination :mad:

So my wobbly bits are going to be staying wobbly now, I dont feel comfortable at all now going to the pool, I've been before when it's suppose to be men and women and the men just hog the lanes and bully you out of the road, and there is never many women

And I was just wondering, does the adult swim now not discriminate against children?!

Cate

janren

i sympathise ... i gave up going to my local pool as a teenager ... i'd noticed there were a few creepy old men who seemed to gravitate to the shallow end close by the ladies changing room so they could watch women getting in and out of the pool ..... gave me the heebie-jeebies!

when are full-body swimming suits going to come back in fashion?:rotfl:

Girlzmum

I tried going during the week when I was at home after the girls were born, but it's closed to the public due to school kids (every week day!) I give up! And don't get me started on unisex changing rooms......

Robothell

cathy2702 wrote: »

......the men just hog the lanes and bully you out of the road.......

Ooohhh......I had to raise to the bait.

I used to go swimming three mornings a week in my local pool before work but had to give it up. There I'd be, happily in the lane doing lengths - normally sharing a lane with at least one other man when in would splash a woman (not just one culprit, but many) who would proceed to doggy paddle in circles over about three different lanes. Or, my personal favourite, swimming across three or four lanes in an unpredictable diagonal line!!! Not only ruining my swim but causing a hazard to anyone else in the pool!!! And they seemed to be oblivious to the fact!!!

Now, don't get me wrong - they had as much right to be in the water as I had but the least they could do is try to keep to one lane.

Bizarrely, if there was two or more ladies in the pool they also used to stop halfway down and start chatting to each other as well!!

Bring back ladies might......in fact, make it manditory!!:p

Robothell

wifeforlife

lol I know them eejits annoy me too haha

Being a man, do you have any problem with your local council run pool having a ladies night?

They way I see it is it's a good idea, well number one I dont want any man to see my wobbly pale body getting in and out of the pool (I'm definately a better looking with clothes on woman) but I reckon NO man really wants to see the sight of me half drowning up and down the pool either haha or see the state of my battered body either (baywatch I am not)

Cate

natasha8642

janren wrote: »

i sympathise ... i gave up going to my local pool as a teenager ... i'd noticed there were a few creepy old men who seemed to gravitate to the shallow end close by the ladies changing room so they could watch women getting in and out of the pool ..... gave me the heebie-jeebies!

when are full-body swimming suits going to come back in fashion?:rotfl:

is this what you have in mind: http://www.ahiida.com/img/products/large_thumbs/195-239-1199358384.jpg

doltage

Girlzmum wrote: »

And don't get me started on unisex changing rooms......

Just for research *ahem* where would this be?











(just joking)

Girlzmum

Valley Leisure Centre!

Sigur_2

Last time I was in the leisure centre changing rooms I dropped my phone and it slid into the cubicle beside. Anyway, I went to pick up it and the rest is history...

Robothell

cathy2702 -

Personally I have absolutely no problem with a ladies only swim session (especially as I normally swim in the mornings). Unfortunately in this "PC crazy" world you'd probably have to have a mens only, pensioners only etc session and then you'd only be able to swim once a week. To be honest, I don't really pay much attention to anyone else when I'm in the water but I take your point about people staring.

Again, just to be devil's advocate, two other points. Firstly, do you think that men don't also get self conscious in pools with beer bellies etc? I know one friend of mine who won't swim any more after getting teased by a kid for having a really hairy back. And secondly, what makes you think that you wouldn't be getting eyed up on a womens only swim session? It takes all sorts to make a world.

Sigur -

Are your first name and your surname the same by any chance?:p That incident actually happened in the pool I normally attend a few years before I started going there.

Sigur_2

Robothell wrote: »

Sigur -

Are your first name and your surname the same by any chance?:p That incident actually happened in the pool I normally attend a few years before I started going there.

You know too much! *runs*