Anonymous wrote:OP, we pretty much had the same thing happen today. We had two chaise lounges under an umbrella. Our stuff was clearly on both. Another family, that we have a smile and say hello kind of relationship with sat right next to us. We went to go have lunch at a picnic table and watched from across the pool area as they moved our stuff off of the lounges and laid out on them. It was bizarre. We were on them when they came to sit down. We told them we were going over to the table to eat lunch (can't eat on the pool deck) and they just decided to take our seats. Totally baffling.

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.

Anonymous wrote:OP, we pretty much had the same thing happen today. We had two chaise lounges under an umbrella. Our stuff was clearly on both. Another family, that we have a smile and say hello kind of relationship with sat right next to us. We went to go have lunch at a picnic table and watched from across the pool area as they moved our stuff off of the lounges and laid out on them. It was bizarre. We were on them when they came to sit down. We told them we were going over to the table to eat lunch (can't eat on the pool deck) and they just decided to take our seats. Totally baffling.

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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

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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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, we pretty much had the same thing happen today. We had two chaise lounges under an umbrella. Our stuff was clearly on both. Another family, that we have a smile and say hello kind of relationship with sat right next to us. We went to go have lunch at a picnic table and watched from across the pool area as they moved our stuff off of the lounges and laid out on them. It was bizarre. We were on them when they came to sit down. We told them we were going over to the table to eat lunch (can't eat on the pool deck) and they just decided to take our seats. Totally baffling.

Did you say anything to them when you finished lunch??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, we pretty much had the same thing happen today. We had two chaise lounges under an umbrella. Our stuff was clearly on both. Another family, that we have a smile and say hello kind of relationship with sat right next to us. We went to go have lunch at a picnic table and watched from across the pool area as they moved our stuff off of the lounges and laid out on them. It was bizarre. We were on them when they came to sit down. We told them we were going over to the table to eat lunch (can't eat on the pool deck) and they just decided to take our seats. Totally baffling.

Did you say anything to them when you finished lunch??

By the time we got back over to the chairs two of them jumped in the pool. I moved our stuff back and spread the towels out to re-stake our claim.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in and out of the pool, all my tuff and towel on a chair. A lady decided to rake the chair because I was not sitting there at the moment. What is pool etiquette when it comes to chairs? Btw, this is a community pool not club.

She was rude. It’s happened to many people. Sorry, OP.