Jose Marti Pool

I love Jose Marti Park. The location is tucked away from cars with a vast parking garage, gym/​pool admission is only $ 3 each, and the views are lovely. But my first visit to the pool was nauseating.
When I came here to swim laps, a kids’ aquatic class was going on at the same time. I guess that a little girl in the group beside mine felt comfortable enough with me (I look very young) to duck under the swimmer’s tape and come talk to me while I was taking a break. She proceeded to complain for a while on how the instructors were totalitarians with the kids and when they were allowed to breathe. Her swimming instructor made eye contact with the little girl speaking to a stranger, myself, but never called her back to the group.
Shortly after my break, I had to cut the length in which I did laps, because the kids were on the opposite end learning their diving techniques. After diving inside, they would duck under to the swimmer’s line and remain floating there, instead of waiting on the deck for their next turn. This was honestly no bother to me, but the lifeguard never whistled at them to get out of that area (elementary school-​sized kids in restricted 12ft deep water).
At the end of my swim, there was a miscommunication between me and an instructor who chose to take the incorrect word of a patron. I’m 5 feet tall and a little over a hundred pounds. She aggresively paced towards me as though I were a huge threat, then yelled at me as though I had not paid to enter this public space. I watched her supervisor reprimand her while she scoffed and rolled her eyes, then he himself had to ask her to apologize which in turn was a hilariously spineless «I’m sorry I got excited.»
So what I gathered from my experience is that three different lifeguards/​instructors don’t do their jobs correctly, refuse to take accountability for their actions, and berate little and big people alike.