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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could “take one from the lost and found” have meant just for practice? It’s very common at our pool to take & then return items from lost and found. [/quote]

Yes, ours too, and I don't have a problem with that as long as the item goes right back where it came from after practice is over.  Our pool has a "goggle box" and a "toy box."  The toy box is a rotating hodgepodge of lost and abandoned items, mainly small dollar-store diving toys and things like that (we don't allow inflatables, and there are enough balls on property that no one needs to bring those on their own).  Most of the goggles in the goggle box are of the toy rather than the sport/racing category, but I always made sure my kids put them right back after borrowing them.

The culture of the pool itself is such that a lost item is usually right where you left it a day or two later, or even well beyond that.  I've found towels of ours months after they were accidentally abandoned, because they were at the bottom of the lost-and-found textiles hamper - yuck![/quote]

Bring your own toys and goggles and stop stealing others.  [/quote]

Stop leaving your cr*p all over the pool so it doesn't end up in the lost and found.[/quote]

We don’t and it still gets stollen.  You are proud you steal?[/quote]

So people are going through your pool bag to steal goggles and toys..ugh huh.sure. totally happening.
more like you kid leaves their stuff all over and it get lost[/quote]

Mine have had their entire bag swipped and we found the stuff all over the place.  They have never lost even a water bottle at school.  Its your kids who think its ok to take things and call it borrowing.  You are teaching your kids to steal as you are too selfish to buy a few pair of goggles and leave two in the bag, one in the car and its never an issue.[/quote]

Yup, we’ve seen this with both swim bags and tennis bags. Kids will show up with someone else’s racquet that’s clearly labeled with the name and shrug it off and say their parents found it.

Our pool does have a kids’ camp with childcare for the day and I think that contributes to how kids think of possessions. A lot of parents are dropping off and then a nanny or grandma is picking up and none of the adults are communicating, hence stuff like no one blinking at a tennis racquet that looks different than the one that came to dropoff. It bleeds over into swim team and meet culture- if parents aren’t careful with stuff at home and shrug off mixed up possessions, kids won’t see grabbing someone else’s team shirt or cap as a big deal.[/quote]

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