Water walker gripe..

Different strokes for different folks.  I'm sure they paid to use the pool just like everyone else and are entitled to use it as they want. 

I share a pool with senior water aerobics/walker folks.  They are pretty cool.    If the pool is crowded and you ask to share a lane with them, they'll usually let you or move into another lane with other walkers.

Yes they are entitled to use it (and I think it's great for them that they are), but water walkers/aqua joggers/people doing water aerobics and all other non-swimmers should be together in one lane (or two if there are a lot of them). Trying to swim in a lane with a non-swimmer just leads to the swimmer having to pass every lap. And if there are two swimmers and one non-swimmer, then it's just chaos.

My pool has a designated "floater" lane for non-swimmers and then the remaining lanes are designated slow, medium, fast, and very fast. If yours doesn't, try suggesting such a system to the management. People using the wrong speed lane is one of my biggest pool pet peeves.

it happens, but think of it as trainign, you get some waves

If the swimmers needing the lanes outnumber the walkers, then I'd speak to one of the lifeguards about it. Perhaps they should label the walking lanes as separate from the swimming lanes (much like some pools have slow, medium, and fast lanes).

Sometimes I'm shocked by how clueless (if not just plain rude) some people in the pool are. I've had people steal my kickboards and pull buoys, I've seen people repeatedly swim straight down the middle of a crowded lane (I complained about that after getting kicked in the head), and every day there are very slow people who don't let the faster people pass at the end of a length (even though there's a line up of people behind them, and the lane is too crowded to pass during a length).

Actually those are the reasons I rarely swim at the pool that's directly across the street from my apartment.

Matthew