Anonymous
Post 06/27/2016 08:40     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
Anonymous wrote:
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.


+1 The vast majority of people will not disturb items on a chair. There are always a few. I don't let the few get to me.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2016 01:20     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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.


Good for you. How old were these people?
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2016 00:47     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2016 00:33     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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.


You sound rude and confused.

Most pools do not have lockers or cubbies. People put their stuff down at a table or chair(s) and leave it there as they go in and out of the pool.

What pool do you belong to where there are lockers snd cubbies?
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2016 00:31     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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.



You clearly are not familiar with what is considered good manners at pools.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2016 23:34     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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.


?????? No it's not?????

I dont know if you're in Soviet Russia, but there's usually a large number of chairs available anyway. Most people get in the pool, get out, go back to their chair, repeat.

It's not "post your ass in the chair the entire time or you have to forfeit it".... like how feral and unpleasant.
doodlebug
Post 06/26/2016 23:31     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2016 23:29     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
I would absolutely go up to her and say, "did you move my things off my chair while I was in the pool?"
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2016 23:26     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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.


It would make it OK if they gave them back to you when you returned, don't you think?
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2016 23:25     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2016 23:24     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
So? Go get a different chair. This wouldn't even register in my mind as A Thing.
doodlebug
Post 06/26/2016 23:23     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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
Post 06/26/2016 23:20     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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
Post 06/26/2016 21:53     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2016 21:36     Subject: Someone stole my chair at the pool

"Excuse me, that's my chair. My things were on it."

I would keep an eye out for her, OP, and observe whether she does this to anyone else. Perhaps she has a screw loose.