If you don’t like your feet being touched, you could be in for a shock at the local pool (Picture: Getty Images)

Plodding along in the slow lane at my local pool for a bit of R&R, I noticed that the swimmer behind me was quickly becoming rather impatient. For a minute, I thought I’d mistakenly plonked myself in a faster lane, but no.

Flashing up and down at lightning speeds, he was now passive-aggressively tailgating me – with minimal distance, might I add – as though he was trying to win gold at the Olympics , a feat my casual pace was hampering.

In my mind, he shouldn’t have been in the slow lane in the first place. Worse still, he wasn’t going to put me out of my misery with a simple, inoffensive overtake.

It’s not an isolated incident either; in the past, I’ve even seen pensi

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