I feel for you. We just went to the pool, my sister to swim laps and me to do my physio, and we forgot the last (and big) school swimming carnival is on today, thirty billion small persons racing round, divebombing and being hustled out of the program pool. I keep reminding myself that without the littleI hate children.
I am now in that age where my own son is almost grown up and the little kids are just annoying - at least on the ice. Young teenagers -even more annoying - older teenagers - not as annoying, but also annoying. I want my own ice. I want to be able to train my stuff without constantly being run over by those little creatures who are much more forceful than they look, and I never again want to be run over by a 12year old ice bear pusher who with innocent eyes looks at me lying on the ice: "Are you okay?" No, I'm not. I want you to be locked in a closet until I'm done here.
They are lawlessly skating around without any regard for old ladies like me, chasing each other full speed without looking... and when I want to hug my circle properly but in the wrong direction I feel so guilty... because then I am in the way...
There is no possibility for me to get ice of my own, it's all crowded to very crowded public sessions, and I'm too old for this!!
At this point I'm just waiting for the ice season to end. I need a half-year long break to heal my tortured body and mind.