Gripe: Lifeguard never showed up this morning

Originally posted by siouxcityhawk I am in the category of "people who will understand". This would most likely set the tone for my entire morning and possibly the day if I couldn't get the workout it. Being the father of three small children and the husband to a mostly supportive wife, if I left the house that early for a swim and didn't get in the pool, I would have a hard time justifying trying to do the same thing tomorrow. I know there will be people on BT that say things like: "that's not a real problem" "There are worse things in the world going on than you missing your swim workout" "maybe the lifegaurd had a car accident, family emergency, house fire, etc" Regardless of the reasons behind the "no show", I woudl still be very irritated too. Chances are the BT community will chastise you for venting, but for goodness sakes, if we can't complain about these kind of problems on BT then why are we even on this site?

Originally posted by Left Brain

I'm here for you, man.....I think you should hunt him down and beat the hell out of him!

Originally posted by siouxcityhawk

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Chances are the BT community will chastise you for venting, but for goodness sakes, if we can't complain about these kind of problems on BT then why are we even on this site?

Originally posted by 1stTimeTri



Uh, why would you globally include "BT community" instead of "a few BT members of the community"?

Originally posted by siouxcityhawk I certainly accept your request for clarification. Most of the BT community won't chastise him (or me now), but there are certainly those that want to, but wont' since it's identified they probably would.

Originally posted by 1stTimeTri Uh, why would you globally include "BT community" instead of "a few BT members of the community"?

Originally posted by jeffnboise

It's like rain on your wedding day.  Or a free ride when you've already paid.

Originally posted by odpaul7

But getting up that early to do nothing but sit in a chair and watch the same people swim back and forth every day is hard.

Originally posted by odpaul7

I'd also be fairly annoyed but a bit more understanding. I used to work as a lifeguard throughout junior and senior years in high school. I would wake up at 4:20, grab a dollar taco at the gas station and be at the pool at 4:45 to open up (lap hours are 5-7am). Leave at 7:15, shower, school, HS swim practice, home, do whatever homework I didn't do during lunch time or elective classes, and go to club swimming from 5-7:30pm. Dinner, sleep, rinse and repeat. Every day.

I might have missed 3 mornings the whole school year, two of those the manager was gone as well and one of those I called late and the manager just let me stay home (so two of those three times nobody could open the pool)

But getting up that early to do nothing but sit in a chair and watch the same people swim back and forth every day is hard. It was harder on the manager too he lived a 30min drive away. So from a ex-lifeguard's perspective, sometimes its hard too. The days just didn't match up for you. But then again sometimes guards can also just be lazy bums. That's happened plenty of times too.

It still doesn't make missing your swim workout any less annoying because it still is, but just trying to provide some other input =P

Originally posted by GAUG3



"Like meeting the girl of your dreams and finding out she's 5." Cool points if you know where that came from.

Originally posted by Nipper You had me up until "grab a dollar taco at the gas station" then everything just went blank.

Originally posted by Hoos

Same here... what a bargain!

Up here they're at least $1.50...

Originally posted by odpaul7

But getting up that early to do nothing but sit in a chair and watch the same people swim back and forth every day is hard.  

Originally posted by steveseer At 4am they drop the price to a buck because they've been sitting under heat lamps all night. Early bird gets the worm...