What’s wrong in this picture?

"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove) 11/03/2018 at 18:25 • Filed to: Typical Saturday

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I’m at the Y for a swim clinic.

Also, this was parked in front.

This was getting serviced at the nearby gas station while I was filling up. And look what was hidden in the garage in front of it.

The carerra parked outside is auto, hooray!

AestheticsInMotion > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 18:27

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Here, have this too

Chariotoflove > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2018 at 18:28

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Gee, thanks. But I bark much more than I wag. I probably need to work on that. 

AestheticsInMotion > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 18:30

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Do we need to make you some custom bumper stickers...? 

Berang > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 18:38

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That’s a pool for swimming.

Nom De Plume > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 18:38

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Are you looking for a technical critique of how it works as a photo? Otherwise I give up.

Tell us Chariotoflove, w hat is wrong with the picture.

Chariotoflove > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2018 at 18:41

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“My other car can kick your ass.”

“Stay back, peasant.”

I hate the baby on board signs, but today I saw an intel logo, but with “baby inside”.  I had to grudgingly nod respect. 

Chariotoflove > Berang 11/03/2018 at 18:42

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Look at the numbers on the start blocks and tell me that doesn’t bug you. 

Chariotoflove > Nom De Plume 11/03/2018 at 18:43

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Look at the numbering of the blocks. 

DutchieDC2R > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 18:43

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What do you mean, thats perfectly fine! 5, 2, 1, 3, 4, 8, 6, 7, 9, 10......?

AestheticsInMotion > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 18:44

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That’s the problem. There ARE good bumper stickers.

The first time you see them.

Cé hé sin > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 18:50

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What’s wrong? It's plainly the firing order.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 18:51

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I think that has to do with the desirability of middle lanes for competitive swimming and qualifying/heat race seeding s. IIRC, outside lanes against the wall are the slowest/least desirable. The fastest swimmers are seeded in the middles lanes where they should be the  out in front and are clear of turbulence and wakes of slower competitors on the sides, at least until the first turn. Normally lanes are numbered as you would expect, but this pool looks like they numbered them to match seeding positions.

wafflesnfalafel > DutchieDC2R 11/03/2018 at 18:52

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must have a flat plane crank...  (that is super weird - never seen a pool numbered like that before..)

Chariotoflove > DutchieDC2R 11/03/2018 at 18:53

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Gah!

Chariotoflove > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2018 at 18:53

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Precisely. 

Chariotoflove > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 11/03/2018 at 18:56

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I’ve never seen that before. It’s weird. And it bugs me. But yes, the inside lanes are more desirable because of turbulence. 

Chariotoflove > Cé hé sin 11/03/2018 at 19:01

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I like the way you put it. 

Nom De Plume > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 19:04

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I preferred the technical challenges of working in that lighting.

Not hard to figure out why they did this. Lap swimming, now that’s  hard to figure out why people do it.

Chariotoflove > Nom De Plume 11/03/2018 at 19:07

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The lighting in the pool seas quite good. Much better than the dreary shadow of the pool  our last team used. 

Kiltedpadre > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 19:27

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Perhaps when installing the blocks someone decided not to worry about actually putting them in the right spot since it was a clinic and not a meet?

Chariotoflove > Kiltedpadre 11/03/2018 at 20:02

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That had occurred to me too. I was wondering if they are removable. It would make sense. 

Kiltedpadre > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 21:02

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The Y where my wife works has fixed blocks on the deep end and removable blocks on the shallow end. They only put in the removable blocks when they have meets with kids young enough to do 25m legs for relays.

The legs just slide into metal sleeves in the pool deck.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 11/03/2018 at 21:34

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How did they know the combination to my suitcase?!

ttyymmnn > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 11/03/2018 at 21:35

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That’s a great explanation, but I’m convinced somebody just wasn’t paying attention. 

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > ttyymmnn 11/03/2018 at 23:29

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I think it's a pretty reasonable numbering system. They're definitely in order from inside to out. It's like a torque sequence on a single strip. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 11/03/2018 at 23:35

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I used to be a lifeguard and later headguard and pool manager. With as many hours as guards are spending on stand and seeing those numbers, there is no way that was done accidentally and not fixed. Putting up with the incessant “suggestions” about that from the morning early bird lap swimmers alone would be cause enough to correct it if that was the case. Those (mostly) old people let you (and the parks and rec director) know if they think the water is 1/2 degree warmer or colder than they think it should be that morning, that they think something is wrong with the water chemistry, that a sodium halogen light on the ceiling light that requires an electrician repelling down from an opened skylight to change has been burnt out for three days now, that the nightman missed a spot cleaning the floor, that the cashier unlocked the front door 20 seconds late... well, you get the idea.

Chariotoflove > Kiltedpadre 11/04/2018 at 00:41

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Most shallow ends are less than 4 ft. I get a little uncomfortable having kids dive into that. 

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 11/04/2018 at 00:43

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The Y has eyes everywhere. 

Kiltedpadre > Chariotoflove 11/04/2018 at 01:31

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I remember when I was a swim coach for a summer league and there was one pool where the shallow end was so low we didn’t even let the kids jump in. The kids starting on that end stood in the water and pushed off to start. Kids doing 50m or longer races were told not to do flip turns. I want to say the shallow end was only 2 feet. The league didn’t let that pool host meets after that year.

Chariotoflove > Kiltedpadre 11/04/2018 at 12:27

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Oh man, what is it about summer leagues? When I coached a team, our pool was this weird polygon. We had to use orange cones to mark “lanes” for practice. And we didn’t have flags for the backstroke, j ust open sky. Our kids learned that thing of  looking over your shoulder the last several meters to avoid a concussion. Our pool wasn’t used for meets. 

Kiltedpadre > Chariotoflove 11/04/2018 at 14:48

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A lot of towns near me don’t even have summer teams anymore. The trend of the “zero depth entry” with pools here being semicircles with nowhere you can actually swim has ruined it.

My hometown built a new pool and added a lap area supposedly for the swim team, but it’s only three  lanes. They really put it in so they could have a diving board. Our old pool was Olympic size, but the department of energy lost some nuclear material into the ground around the well they used to fill the pool. It’s never a good sign when the DOE shuts down your pool and offers to pay for a new one as long as its in a new location.

Chariotoflove > Kiltedpadre 11/05/2018 at 11:35

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Geez, that sounds like s Simpsons episode.

Our city pool redid the whole thing last summer and build a splash park thing with the lazy river, slides,  etc. Fortunately they put in a six lane 25 m pool too. Unfortunately the cost of all this stuff raised the price of admission significantly.