Field guide No. 1242

In an indoor swimming pool, a beaded lane rope rises straight up into the air with a white towel hung on its top. The lane is technically still in use.

Towel on the impossible lane

Reserved by a towel.

In an indoor swimming pool, a beaded lane rope rises straight up into the air with a white towel hung on its top. The lane is technically still in use.

Field noteA lane rope rising straight up with a towel on top. Rope will not stand unaided; the towel just needs a hook.

Specimen
No. 1242
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
Indoor pools, where lane ropes lie flat
Nearest existing relative
a lane rope with a towel on the edge.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics