Spring is coming up fast and with that summer. I'm getting ready for swimming season. So I want to try asking another pool for permission to swim in a tail.
You must know that fins and monofins ARE allowed at the pool but ONLY in the lap lanes. My tail is a fabric tail win an open end like a FinFun tail.
With that being said my first attempt to ask went like this:
Initially the director said it was a matter of safety. But after suggesting to sign a liability waiver, take a swim test, and even demonstrate how I would exit in an emergency, she then stated that "it's not necessary for swimming" so she cannot allow it in the pool. I've asked if there was anything I could do, including liability insurance, to get a chance to at least take swim test.
I'm now looking to another pool. I'm hoping to have better luck with this pool as they offer after hour pool parties. They have the same fins in lap lanes only rule that they've said does apply even during private pool parties.
My plan is to appeal to their money making side, expressing that I could bring in more business to their pool. I plan on offering the same things I offered the first pool director (signing waiver, insurance, swim test, etc).
However I have to overcome the following:
-fin swimming in lap lane only rule (for doing private parties, my number 2 priority)
-the same "tail isn't necessary for swimming" I've encountered in the other pool (number 1 priority if this issue comes up again)
I've looked through the threads on tail bans and read Raina's books. It seems most mers problems are with the bans of fins, not tail skins.
Any idea how I can remedy this? Or maybe something I can try that I haven't yet?
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