Someone stole my chair at the pool

[Anonymous]

Unless you had abandoned the chairs for hours, she was rude

[Anonymous]

What!? She did what??

OP I would have chased that bitch down and with a very loud voice "....excuse me you fat-ass, you just removed all of my personal belongings from MY chair....and took MY chair that I have been using all morning...."

[Anonymous]

Total violation of pool etiquette. You don't remove someone else's things when it's obvious they are swimming.

[Anonymous]

I would have attacked her with a shiv, and placed a pipe bomb under her car. Also, thrown acid in her children's faces.

I mean, it's a CHAIR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another perspective - I hate it when people put their stuff on a bunch of chairs and table with umbrellas and then leave, but if you try to ask to use of the chairs, oh hell no. RUDE.

OP, what she did is flat out wrong. However, I sat at our pool on Friday and watched a family claim one of the few umbrella tables in the area where food is allowed, and then two chaise lounges in the pool area as well. The tables are in high demand and I think they were just staking claim for when they felt like eating dinner in a few hours. So inconsiderate, IMO.

[Anonymous]

I went to an amusement park and sat in a chair in the shade that had some stuff on it. I moved promptly when the people came back. I think they were mad but didn't really care. There was absolutely nowhere to sit in the shade.

[Anonymous]

Is there any pool etiquette signage at any of these public pools? I think there needs to be.

I don't disagree that personal items on a chair is a 'claim' but it is annoying as hell to have no empty chairs except 'claimed' chairs and no one around.

I've just sat on them before until someone came. Most often, no one ever came and if they did and saw that I was willing to get up to move, they just said 'no it's ok' with a smile and went back to the water.

I think about elderly people like my 97 yr old grandmum and cannot imagine having to explain to her the etiquette of why she can't sit down in an empty unused chair with no human in it and why that's ok.

[Anonymous]

What pools are these? Membership community pools or county pools?

[Anonymous]

From OP - btw, she wound up moving to a better chair in the shade. And guess what, she put her towel down and was in and out of the pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So? Go get a different chair. This wouldn't even register in my mind as A Thing.

It wouldn't register to you anyone throwing your stuff down in order to use the chairs you put your stuff on? Yeah right.

[Anonymous]

It is a D.C. thing -a pissing contest, same as anything else. Ridiculous. You don't touch other people's stuff- even my five year old knows that.

[Anonymous]

I say if there is personal stuff on the chair....Do not touch it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From OP - btw, she wound up moving to a better chair in the shade. And guess what, she put her towel down and was in and out of the pool.

Did you move her stuff? She was asking for it.

[Anonymous]

This thread makes me glad to belong to a country club! I didnt realize there was such a scarcity of chairs!

[Anonymous]

Haha OP. Just thought of you.

At my kid's first swim.meet. got here early to get a table under the pavilion. When we stepped up to watch our kid's short 25 meter race, a guy from the guest team took my husband's chair. They already had chairs for the two adults. The third chair they took was so their toddler (whonis mostly not sitting) could have his own chair to hop in and out of.

Should I steal it back when they get up to watch their kid, lol?

My polite husband is just sitting on a bench by himself at the back of the pavilion.