Flashes of Panic

Even if it is, in fact, a state law and not just a pool rule, that just makes it a silly law instead of a silly rule.

(Background: I had just turned into the final lap of a 2000m workout when the lifeguards whistled me out; they were clearing the pool as they do every 50 minutes. Good thing I wasn’t trying to do a 3000m set?!?)

(And, I might add, these lifeguards do not inspire one to follow rules obediently. On which more later, if I still feel peeved.)