Someone stole my chair at the pool

[Anonymous]

doodlebug wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

doodlebug wrote:I have never and would never dump someone's stuff if it's on a chair but I would DEFINITELY be thinking you were rude for monopolizing a chair you obviously weren't using. A chair is for people not stuff. Just like on the bus.

What? This is bizarre. Does no one go into the pool where you're from? Go to the snack station to get a drink or something to eat?

You can be planning to use it later and storing your stuff there temporarily. It's called basic common sense

You store your things in lockers. You put your towel in the cubby. Done. No need to monopolize a chair and make someone else who actually does need the chair to stand around in the sun or sit on wet pavement/floor. That's just incredibly selfish.

That is YOUR rule and maybe that is the way that it works in YOUR mind. No one else does that. Most pools don't have cubbies or anything of the sort.

Everyone that goes to the pool is in/out of the pool. Running to the bathroom or snack bar. You stake your claim when you get there and that is that. You don't have to stand guard over your chair. How ridiculous.

Now if somebody came to the pool, dropped their stuff on some chairs and then took off, left the pool and disappeared for a long time then you are free to move their stuff. Put it in the lost and found.

[Anonymous]

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

This happened to us ONE time in something like a decade of going to the pool. One clueless dumb azz does not mean that you have to abandon the neighborhood pool. Although country clubs are nice options to have.

[Anonymous]

doodlebug wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

doodlebug wrote:I have never and would never dump someone's stuff if it's on a chair but I would DEFINITELY be thinking you were rude for monopolizing a chair you obviously weren't using. A chair is for people not stuff. Just like on the bus.

What? This is bizarre. Does no one go into the pool where you're from? Go to the snack station to get a drink or something to eat?

You can be planning to use it later and storing your stuff there temporarily. It's called basic common sense

You store your things in lockers. You put your towel in the cubby. Done. No need to monopolize a chair and make someone else who actually does need the chair to stand around in the sun or sit on wet pavement/floor. That's just incredibly selfish.

"Dibs" is a legitimate thing when it comes to poolside chairs. Period.

[Anonymous]

If you laid your things out, spend time time at the pool, then left the pool area entirely for hours (to go home to run some errands), but left your stuff to "save your spot" and then came back hours later to see someone removing your things, then I think that's pretty fair. You leave the pool area for a lengthy amount of time, it's rude to "save your spot."

But if you were always around the pool area, then the woman was incredibly rude and in the wrong.

[Anonymous]

I admit that I have moved my chair into the shade of an umbrella at our pool when the people who were under it went to go eat at a picnic table or swim in the pool. I am basically albino and shade is a very precious commodity at our pool. HOWEVER, I always move when they return. AND, I never move their stuff off their chairs or steal their chairs. I find a free chair and bring it to the umbrella.

Most of the time, I ask if I can squeeze a chair into the shade. It's a community pool, so I've never had a problem. People are generally agreeable.

[Anonymous]

doodlebug wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

doodlebug wrote:I have never and would never dump someone's stuff if it's on a chair but I would DEFINITELY be thinking you were rude for monopolizing a chair you obviously weren't using. A chair is for people not stuff. Just like on the bus.

What? This is bizarre. Does no one go into the pool where you're from? Go to the snack station to get a drink or something to eat?

You can be planning to use it later and storing your stuff there temporarily. It's called basic common sense

You store your things in lockers. You put your towel in the cubby. Done. No need to monopolize a chair and make someone else who actually does need the chair to stand around in the sun or sit on wet pavement/floor. That's just incredibly selfish.

Unless you were raised by wolves, you understand that when you're at a pool, you put your stuff down on a chair and use that chair when you're not in the pool. When you are in the pool, the social contract prevents other people from just throwing your belongings on the ground and claiming your chair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you laid your things out, spend time time at the pool, then left the pool area entirely for hours (to go home to run some errands), but left your stuff to "save your spot" and then came back hours later to see someone removing your things, then I think that's pretty fair. You leave the pool area for a lengthy amount of time, it's rude to "save your spot."

But if you were always around the pool area, then the woman was incredibly rude and in the wrong.

Exactly. Basically, as long as you're on the property (including running out to the parking lot to take a call or whatever), your stuff on a chair means it's your chair for the duration. I don't know what kind of Thunderdome Cage Fight pool Doodlebug hangs out at, but I'm glad I don't go there!

[Anonymous]

Who shoves a wet towel into a "cubby"? Puh-lease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I admit that I have moved my chair into the shade of an umbrella at our pool when the people who were under it went to go eat at a picnic table or swim in the pool. I am basically albino and shade is a very precious commodity at our pool. HOWEVER, I always move when they return. AND, I never move their stuff off their chairs or steal their chairs. I find a free chair and bring it to the umbrella.

Most of the time, I ask if I can squeeze a chair into the shade. It's a community pool, so I've never had a problem. People are generally agreeable.

Totally fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

DO IT!!!

Can you update us, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

DO IT!!!

Can you update us, PP?

I did take it back when they got up to watch their kid and stretch their legs

They also took their original two chairs when the table behind us (who also arrived early) got up to watch their kid swim (another 25 meter so maybe three minutes).

When I took back the chair for my husband, they also got up and took their chairs back.

The couple had left a bag on the table but nothing else. They came back a while later and looked around confused, then took their bag to their new spot.

[Anonymous]

In my village, we take stick or rock to beat and hit woman until she give back chair--or you find her child and take hostage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

DO IT!!!

Can you update us, PP?

I did take it back when they got up to watch their kid and stretch their legs

They also took their original two chairs when the table behind us (who also arrived early) got up to watch their kid swim (another 25 meter so maybe three minutes).

When I took back the chair for my husband, they also got up and took their chairs back.

The couple had left a bag on the table but nothing else. They came back a while later and looked around confused, then took their bag to their new spot.

LOL! That's hilarious! Sweet revenge.

I hope they got the message. I wonder if they jsut dont understand American customs or something or are native Americans who were just being douchebags?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

doodlebug wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

doodlebug wrote:I have never and would never dump someone's stuff if it's on a chair but I would DEFINITELY be thinking you were rude for monopolizing a chair you obviously weren't using. A chair is for people not stuff. Just like on the bus.

What? This is bizarre. Does no one go into the pool where you're from? Go to the snack station to get a drink or something to eat?

You can be planning to use it later and storing your stuff there temporarily. It's called basic common sense

You store your things in lockers. You put your towel in the cubby. Done. No need to monopolize a chair and make someone else who actually does need the chair to stand around in the sun or sit on wet pavement/floor. That's just incredibly selfish.

Unless you were raised by wolves, you understand that when you're at a pool, you put your stuff down on a chair and use that chair when you're not in the pool. When you are in the pool, the social contract prevents other people from just throwing your belongings on the ground and claiming your chair.

+1

Key phrase here. Look around. Plenty of losers proud to be raised by wolves here.

[Anonymous]

God I'm glad I dont live in the suburbs.