Kitty
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
With random, yelling, moving, obstructions.
Lane swimming = zero kids and zero noise! Beautifully antisocial, in fact, nobody stops for long enough to talk. There's a maximum of five in a lane, and most people use the right lane for their pace and will pause at the wall to let slightly faster swimmers pass. All very polite and organised.
You're deaf anyway, as your ears full of water. There's apparently a buzzer that sounds at the end of a session or when they're about to change the pool depth – trouble is that the only person who can hear it is The Lady With The Perm, who swims along with her head stuck up out of the water to preserve her curls.
Admit it's a bit on the damp side, though...