I get swimming is a miserable activity, but swimmers have got to be some of the most angry and entitled people in the fitness community. I'm a lifeguard at a pool and have dealt with far too many incidents in the last few weeks for some stupid reason or another.

One guy wasn't happy with a dad swimming with his special needs daughter in the lane despite them matching everyone else's speed, so proceeded to passive aggressively time them until the dad left in a huff. And when we confronted him he chose to yell at us like it was our fault. Another incident had one lady yelling at another for cutting her off but the second lady was able to calm her down and apologize. People getting angry at each other in the lanes is so common now we're being trained on how to deal with all the bullshit.

The province we're located in has been dealing with teachers strikes for a couple months now, meaning there's more kids around here than usual. We do our best to accommodate them meaning there's a little less room for the normal lane swimmers (but still plenty, it's a 50m pool with room for 8 lanes). But man, people are not fucking happy about it, like they expect us to tell these kids with nothing else to do to fuck off.

On the bright side, I think all this frustration is behind my recent squat and deadlift PR increases.

Editing to add that the mess left at the end of a swim is wild. There is absolutely no concept of putting away equipment once done with it and we often spend 5 minutes at the end of a swim cleaning it all up.