If you go for a swim almost every day in summer (at the outdoor swimming pool) and several times a week in winter (at the Phönix), swimming 1,000 metres each time, as I manage to do better and better, then you notice the following:
A swimming pool is not a process-free area, either! No matter if the public swimming pool is crowded or empty, you will be well advised to follow certain processes and rules. Otherwise, you will soon run into trouble.
Let us take a closer look at the process model swimming.
The participants of the process in the swimming pool can be ordered according to various models: there are slow swimmers, normal swimmers, speed swimmers. Some swim on their backs, which makes them backstrokers (they can sometimes be quite a nuisance, or even dangerous). Both sexes and (almost) all age groups can be found.
Of course, there are also pairwise swimmers. Some are purely female, others purely male. The females often have an insatiable urge to exchange information. However, you sometimes find the same phenomenon among the mixed couples. I find it ingenious how some people can actually combine taking in air with talking.
However, we also find totally different kinds of users at the swimming pool. You find water treaders with colourful plastic doublets (single or in groups) and, once in a while, a pack of water gymnasts. As a unit, they are mostly quite remote from processes and also a bit in the way.
Naturally, you get a huge variety of user profiles. They are quite conflict prone and the only way to bring them together is with clear processes.
The rules, however, are the same in all public swimming pools of this world. You swim the long way in a rectangular pool. Only the modern fun swimming pools are a problem. They do not have any swimming pool, just a huge, round-oval basin with a dent. It is a little Dada. Process failure is a foregone conclusion.
If you are in a swimming club, you swim in circular rows separated from each other. I once witnessed it myself in Riga in a very humerous way. First, the (blond and beautiful) female pool attendants took a good look at me and then they assigned me a row. It was a perfect hybrid process with human control.
So how about meeting today at 2 p.m. at the “Hachinger”? I would be happy to welcome you!
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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