Covington Aquatic Center

I have been taking my boys to the Covington Aquatic Center for over six months now. My boys are also enrolled in their swimming courses.
First, enrolling in a swimming class is easy. You must remember to keep on top of it, if you take too long the classes will fill up. Do not wait until test day to enroll, you should be watching the enrollments a couple weeks before that. Swimming is the kind of activity all parents want their children to be a part of, and some time slots are more competitive than others.
The swim instructors are very good, I have no complaints about all of them except one, the Swimming Nazi.
There is one lifeguard that takes his job WAY too seriously. First, physical description: male, young, brown hair, brown eyes, and Italian sounding last name. (his picture is on the board at the front desk with all the other instructors) My hubby and I tenderly refer to him as the «Swimming Pool Nazi,» which, for all you youngsters out there, is a joke from the 90’s sitcom Seinfeld.
I first came to know the swimming Nazi when my son (aged 5 and one half) tried going down the slide. The rule is that you must be 6 years old to go down the slide. What bothered me was not the, «oh, how dare you be 7 months away from your birthday!» attitude, but rather, he kept my little guy standing hostage at the stairs until he told him how old he was. My son has a diagnosed speech delay and has been in speech therapy for three years. He cannot say his age. When I came to get him, my son was in tears, saying he wanted to go home. I was so angry at the Swimming Nazi I wanted to [insert expletive here]. When the lifeguards rotated spots, and the Nazi was responsible for another part of the swimming pool, another lifeguard kindly let my son go down the slid.
Now, ladies and gentleman — if somebody did that to your five year old son, would you suddenly feel guilty about writing a mean Unilocal review about them? :-) No? Me neither.
I watched the Nazi for the rest of the summer, and carefully observed him for many other swim sessions. He displayed swimming Nazi behavior with many other people, for doing any rule breaking or anything that remotely teetered rule breaking. I am convinced that if any of the other employees read this, they know exactly who I am writing about. A person would have be as lost as a blind man, in a dark alley looking for a black cat to not know who this dude is.
On one occasion, my youngest son and I walked to another area of the pool. I said …‘walked’ to another area of the pool. While HOLDING MY HAND my little 3 year old moved his feet quickly in a running motion, but he wasn’t running because he was… HOLDING MY HAND. Sure enough, from across the pool, in our direction the pool Nazi yells «no running». I rolled my eyes, realizing this dude is an example of what happens when some people get just a little too much power. Can you imagine what would become of this world if he got a job at the DMV? or a filing clerk? or worse yet… a police officer?
In one swimming session, I counted the number of times he yelled «no this!» or «no that», and it averaged three times more than any other lifeguard. I am not kidding you, he likes the sound of this own voice.
I don’t know my readers, frequenters of Covington Aquatic Center, will know who this person is. But if you figure it out, be sure to properly salute, extending the right arm in the air with a straightened hand. The preferred greeting is, «„Heil, mein Führer!“» or ««Sieg heil!» Or maybe, you could break into song. You could instead sing, «It’s Springtime For Hitler in Germany, Winter for Poland and France» (Don’t get the reference.- google it)

If you’re looking for a good time, hit up the aerobics class with the seniors. Instructor is nice. Tell them if your recovering from something and they will keep an a close eye on you.

I’ve been taking my 9-​yr old here for a few months now. The pool is very clean and the instructors are great. It’s the enrollment process that needs improvement. We went to register for our 4^th session on grade day, and were told our class was already full. How do you lose a time slot that you’re A) currently enrolled in and B) on grade day? I elevated my concerns to the program director, offering what I thought was a great idea for improvements to their enrollment process, to no avail, other than ‘we can sign you up for the next month’. Really? So now my son is supposed to sit out for a month? I don’t think so. It’s time for another pool.