I was swimming laps tonight at our usually quiet pool and my DH and I were the only adults around while we were there. There was a big group of teens who strolled in and a lot of kids without bags or stuff who just swam in workout shorts- it looked like they had come spontaneously from a sports practice or someone’s house.
I left my towel on a railing to dry while DH and I ate our dinner nearby and when we gathered out things, my towel was gone and the teens were too. We looked in both locker rooms, the lost and found, and asked the guards in case they had rounded up things early to clean before close, but it was nowhere to be found. It was a sentimental towel (I know that sounds dumb) and also just the right size to wrap easily but not so big and thick that it is hard to wash or dry. I’ve used it at open water swim races, my DD’s early swim lessons, etc. and no one has ever been tempted to grab it off the hundreds of chairs, chaises, railings and fences that it’s been on. Vent over. Teach your idiot boys with low executive functioning skills to pack a towel or air dry, and if you find a towel at your house that isn’t yours, maybe question how it got there. |
Put a sign at the pool explaining what it looks like and when it was taken. I bet it was by mistake and not stolen. Just ask for it back. |
I'm sorry OP. If people can't get in the minds of each other to understand "keeping track of possessions" they will never understand this. And we don't understand the clueless people who think everything is theirs and don't question it.
My I know and remember every possession of mine. I remember who gave me things or where/when I bought them. I keenly feel the loss of things long gone or long lost. My in-laws are clueless. Things are left at their house and they just take it for granted that these things are theirs. As if they always have been. It would never occur to them that it belongs to someone else because they just don't keep track. |
Who steals a towel of all things? Don't leave out anything of value in a public place. Common sense. |
Nobody wants your dirty used towel. WTF OP?!?! |
This post represents an underdeveloped pre-cortex reaction. |
Most kids give up their blanket by two. Seek some counseling. |
Why would they take your used towel? They were probably swim team coming from dryland. Stop blaming them when you didn't see anyone do it. |
If I want to keep something, I don't leave it unattended. If you're abandoning it, you must not want it. |
Also, how presumptuous to think you can leave your towel hanging and expect it to be there when you come back? If I worked there and found a rando towel, I'd either put it in lost and found or toss it in the trash. |
Idiot boys? You are the idiot. |
OP— you are really being dumb. No one wants to take another person’s towel. That’s disgusting even to a teen boy. Go back and ask about your towel— it’s probably in the lost and found by now. |
+1. Usually it takes a few days for something to show up at the lost and found. Give it a minute. |
OP sounds like the kind of person who accuses the maid of stealing when they’ve misplaced something in the house. |
When you mean you had dinner “nearby,” what do you mean? Did you eat your dinner at the pool, or did you leave the premises? |