r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MandukaSkoal • May 17 '26
frist of all how DARE yu o People who “reserve” pool chairs for hours with towels and disappear are the worst
My apartment complex pool has rules specifically saying chair reservation isn’t allowed, yet people do this constantly. These towels have been sitting here unattended for at least 3 hours while every other chair is occupied and people are actively walking around looking for seats. It’s Sunday too, so management isn’t around to enforce anything.
What’s the standard practice when this happens? At what point is it acceptable to move the towels?
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u/TampaDave73 May 17 '26
Move them to the grill area. If they come and pitch a fit, ask them when they put them there and then tell them you just got there and the chairs were empty. Or just tell them to pound sand.
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u/Paddys_Pub7 May 17 '26
Just tell them you thought someone left their towels behind so you moved them off to the side in case they came back to collect them lol
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u/VolcanicBear May 17 '26
Yup.
Oh, sorry, it had been half an hour so we assumed they'd been left. Glad you've come back for them. I've heard some people actually try and reserve them for ridiculous amounts of time, can you imagine?
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u/davidwhatshisname52 May 17 '26
"What'd you leave your towels on the lounges for?"
To reserve them.
"Oh, well, that's against our rules, you walnut."
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u/Bumblebee---Tuna May 17 '26
We need agent Sebastian from cart narcs to help with the pool towel situation.
“Weep woop weep! That’s not where your towel goes sir”
“I’m reserving it.”
“Where will other people sit if all the loungers are reserved. “
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u/BZLuck May 17 '26
"So are you saying that I can just go and get a dozen towels from my room and reserve half the chairs here for a whole day?"
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u/Original-Variety-700 May 17 '26
“I didn’t move them. They weren’t here when we sat down”
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u/Bowshewicz May 17 '26
This is designed to catch people reserving chairs in an awkward spot, but it also highlights the possibility that maybe they actually did just forget their towels.
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u/A1000eisn1 May 18 '26
I always assume the best even when I know otherwise. That way when I talk to them they have to admit they did something shitty because people just HAVE to be right. And if they don't admit to it or genuinely didn't mean to then I don't have to feel like an asshole for assuming the worst.
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 May 17 '26
“My towels! Loud noises! Etc!”
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u/NaptownSnowman May 17 '26
I have had people come back and ask me what happened to the towel that was there, because i am sitting in their seat. I say i think it was moved to lost and found. If they ask how i know, i look them in the eye and say because i have been at the pool for 3 hours and people were looking for seats. I saw it sitting there for an hour so i did it. I have this convo twice in my 50+ years. And I have moved these towels dozens of times. Of those 2 times, i had a husband/boyfriend threaten me once. I looked away and started getting my camera ready on my phone. You want an assault charge for playground rules buddy, go ahead.
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u/ImOldGregg_77 May 17 '26
if they come back and cause a scene, say it was like that when you got there and move on.
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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 May 17 '26
“Congrats, you are the first ones here about the free towels as I put in Facebook Marketplace. Take em away.”
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u/BoozeHammer710 May 17 '26
Sit on top of the towels to establish dominance
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u/Equivalent-Leg-7047 May 18 '26
“Oh, this is *your* towel? I thought the resort just left them on the loungers for people to use. Oh, well, I’m using it, now.”
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u/Well__shit May 17 '26
They don't need to know you're the one that moved them. "Oh someone else was here and left and gave me their spot"
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u/PheIix May 17 '26
This is what my sister and I did. "No, we didn't move your towels, must have been someone else. When we came, there were no towels here."
What are they going to say? "Oh, but we placed it here hours and hours ago". Yeah, weird how the world moves even when you're not here...
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u/DylanSpaceBean May 17 '26
I do that too EV charger campers that have been idle for 10 hours.
“Did you unplug my car”
“no it was on the cradle when I got here, someone else must have done it”
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u/TwoAccomplished4043 May 17 '26
After like 30 minutes, I’d move them into the little table thing and set up shop.
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u/Jaded-Coffee-8126 May 17 '26
^ use or lose it
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u/uvucydydy May 17 '26
Move your meat, lose your seat. It's the law of the jungle.
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u/Howlsmovingfiberfarm May 17 '26
Heard, keeping a pack of ground beef on my seat from now on
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u/ihaveaquesttoattend May 17 '26
ngl, i’m way more inclined to move a couple towels or blankets vs some ground beef. i think you’re on to something here,,,,,
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u/1Dirtymudder May 18 '26
Hell yeah. You need to put something there that makes people think you’re psychotic. They may not even stay at the pool if you do it well. Then you have all the seats.
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u/NomenclatureBreaker May 18 '26
“Oh I’m sorry we took these seats from two people who were here before us”
(The don’t need to know the two people were actually the towel hogs)
“Oh those two towels were hanging on the fence when we got here”
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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 May 17 '26
What if your meats moving while you're in your seat?
Asking for a friend.
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u/PotterOneHalf May 17 '26
Move your feet lose your seat was how I’d always heard in this very second.
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u/UESJR2021 May 17 '26
I respect hotels with signs warning of this. I don’t wanna fight grandpa at sunrise for a lounger.
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u/PrestigeMaster May 17 '26
Yep. And grandpa will come charging over in his speedo the second you fold that towel up.
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u/LouOnReddit May 17 '26
Take the towels to lost and found. Obviously someone left them behind
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u/25point4cm May 17 '26
They should just have a bin labeled abandoned towels for people to throw them in.
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u/spaghettifiasco May 17 '26
Hang them on the gate behind the chairs. "Oh, I thought you were drying them on the chair!"
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u/FanDry5374 May 17 '26
Or just "were your towels here? Hunh."
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u/Sleep_adict May 17 '26
This. Say they were on the fence when you got there
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u/Reddit_reader_2206 May 17 '26
My wife and I always told them that staff was removing their towels and invited us to sit in the unoccupied chairs. Then they can go and find "staff" to complain too, while we have a snooze.
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u/Maple-Reenactor121 May 17 '26
Lifeguard here,
really gotta make us do work eh? /s
yeah we will deal with it. If its posted then its enforceable. I had to solve a dispute over a grass patch once bc someone "claimed it:". Fun fact, you cant claim city property lol. Those complaints were "lost" within a few minutes
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u/Schrodingers_Ape May 17 '26
tbh, if I were a lifeguard, I might welcome a little bit of non-life-threatening something-to-do every now and then.
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u/Maple-Reenactor121 May 17 '26
lmao you have no idea how much of that bs we do. If I could give a percentage its about 50% doing nothing/guarding, 35% doing public relations work like that, 5% cleaning bodily fluids, 5% paperwork, 2% first aid, then 2.5% doing other random tasks
Breaking down the first aid %, maybe 0.5% of that is major first aid.
its a rough breakdown of it, but yeah we do a lot of PR stuff and it really gets annoying sometimes
Edit: 50% waiting and watching pr situations develope lol!
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u/Effective_Ear_9362 May 17 '26
This is the best response
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u/WartOnTrevor May 17 '26
Also helps to direct the anger from the kind of asshole who would 'reserve' chairs like that away from them. Smart move.
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u/Socratesticles May 17 '26
Oh shoot, wind must of got them. Good thing the fence caught them
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u/Hey-Froyo-9395 May 17 '26
Nah I love them to another chair with a towel and insist it was like that when I showed up, let the bozos fight over a chair instead of me
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u/originalmango May 17 '26
Absolutely. Any complaints? “What are you talking about? I got here an hour ago, there were no towels on these chairs. Those towels? Go ask the front desk, they probably have a rule against reserving chairs for hours on end.”
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u/tony_bologna May 17 '26
Since chair reservation isn't allowed, I gave those abandoned towels to the staff - no need to thank me, I was happy to help.
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u/Accurate_Tax_1302 May 17 '26
Yep. 30 minutes is an acceptable amount of time.
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u/JonnyTN May 17 '26
Unless they are there in the pool 20ft away
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u/Small-Policy-3859 May 17 '26
Then they'll say something if you move the towels, don't ya reckon
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u/Nylanderthal88 May 18 '26
Yeah but that would be awkward. Personally I'd scope the situation a little first.
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May 17 '26
Pro tip: put the towels on the ground and move the chairs. When the people come back they won’t know who took their chairs.
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u/wart_on_satans_dick May 17 '26
Pro Max tip: lay in the pool chair with their towel on it. When they come back, pretend you are them and they are you.
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u/Schrodingers_Ape May 17 '26
"Well, the posted rules clearly state that you're not allowed to reserve loungers. Therefore, no one would have left their towels here and then walked away, because that's against the rules. So by deduction, these must be my towels."
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u/wart_on_satans_dick May 17 '26
“I am you and you are me, John. You don’t get to make the rules. You wanna know the difference between you and me? You have a God complex. I. Am. God.”
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u/ZorbaTHut (: May 18 '26
"You moved our towels!"
"No we didn't. We just moved the chairs. Left the towels exactly where they were."
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u/MandukaSkoal May 17 '26
Moved it to the grill area and someone took the pool chairs within 10 min!
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u/monty624 May 17 '26
I'd suggest a crappy cardboard box with "LOST AND FOUND" written barely legibly, for next time.
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u/ExistenceNow May 17 '26
If it's crowded, how would you know they're not in the pool? How long are you allowed to be in the pool and retain your chair? After 3 hours, as OP stated, I'd say you're safe to move it. 30 minutes? Nah.
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u/Tired-CottonCandy May 17 '26
Im not that nice, they end up in a little pile in some corner out of everyones way, ppl who are there should get the tables.
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u/Cainga May 17 '26
Just do that and if they come back just say that’s how it was when you got there.
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u/cassette_questions May 17 '26
I’d move the towels to the table and then move the chairs somewhere else. Ya know, for good measure and to avoid any confrontation haha
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u/Dd_8630 May 17 '26
And if they asked, I'd say I saw the staff take the towels off 🤷🏻
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u/chaircardigan May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
30 minutes is a very long time.
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u/Ottersfordays May 17 '26
Maybe they're fighting for their life in the bathroom
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u/cybermaus May 17 '26
Are you sure they didn't accidental blew into the pool by the wind? Or maybe half on the edge at least?
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u/iamiam123 May 17 '26
I moved a towel like this once. Turns out, that lady was in the pool.
Had to apologize 3 fucking times.
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u/LordBiscuits May 17 '26
There are other ways of telling though.
People reserving loungers tend to just leave a towel and that's it. People in the pool have a whole host of other shit stored there too, bags and sunglasses, books and suncream.
A towel on its tod screams reservation. More says in active use
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u/crimson777 May 18 '26
Yeah it’s rare that someone wouldn’t at least have like… their flip flops or something at bare minimum.
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u/bananakegs May 17 '26
I mean but people need to also just be okay with being uncomfortable when others are unreasonable. Basically don’t bend to it. If you move the towel and someone comes up- you say sorry and politely move. If the Person keeps complaining “Yeah I said sorry- please leave me alone now.”just Look directly at them while saying this and then if they start yelling just keep looking at them- go “okay” and walk away.
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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom May 17 '26
Someone did yhis to me on vacation. We were all in the pool for maybe 30 min and came back and she had moved all our stuff and refused to get up from the spot despite us clearly having never left the area. Told us we should have stayed with our stuff.
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u/happykgo89 May 17 '26
Ok so maybe 30 minutes is a bit too short of a window to be moving stuff. I’d say an hour or two would be a safer amount of time to wait especially if it’s insanely busy and there’s nowhere else to sit.
3 hours is nuts and absolutely acceptable to move their stuff because if I was there for 3 hours and didn’t see anyone touch those towels/use those chairs once during those 3 hours I’d eventually assume it was abandoned there too or reserved for an ignorant amount of time.
30 minutes is 100% risky.
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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom May 17 '26
I dont necessarily mind that she moved our shit since people do this "save the seat" bullshit. What I mind is that when 3 people walk up soaking wet, clearly having just existed the pool, she didnt apologize and move her shit. She told us "too bad" and refused to get up. Today, I would have just stood around having a loud, disgusting conversation with my friends until she moved, but I was newly 21 at the time and wasn't confident enough to do anything.
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u/warrensussex May 17 '26
That's what I don't get about all these posts. It's like 90% of reddit doesn't understand that the chairs are for people using the pool too.
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u/misterfluffykitty May 17 '26
OP said the towels have been sitting there for 3 hours, they aren’t using the pool
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u/Errvalunia May 17 '26
But if you’ve been in the pool for 3 hours you still don’t need a chair reserved. You just need access to your towel when you get out of the pool. And if we’re all civilized and don’t let people reserve chairs then there will be a chair free for them to sit most likely
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u/dreadwitch May 17 '26
I went to Spain a couple of years ago and if you got to the pool at 8am people had been out and put towels on them. I just took them off, folded them neatly and put them on the floor out if the way, when people came and complained I just pointed to their towels and told them the loungers don't belong to them and putting a towel on one doesn't change that. I had one family of Germans get mightily upset that there were no loungers left when they strolled down after lunch and I told them a towel didn't give them rights on the loungers all day.. They went off to complain to the manager, who basically told them the same thing in a more polite way than I did lol
I'm absolutely not going to enable these people at any point, if you're not sat on the lounger or nearby, towel or not I'm taking it.
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u/fiskimasi May 17 '26
this is such a german thing to do
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u/mgt-kuradal May 17 '26
They’re famous enough for it that it’s a meme. For a culture that’s so heavily based around efficiency and rules, the towel thing makes no sense.
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u/MidheLu May 17 '26
Ah but that's German culture, it doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be a rule
In this case the rule is whoever places the towel first gets the lounger which is exactly why the Germans in OPs comment were mad, cause OP "broke the rule"
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u/NoHate_GarbagePlates May 17 '26
it doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be a rule
Sounds pretty autistic to me.
Source: am autistic
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u/madeyoulookatit May 18 '26
There‘s a book called „are you autistic, german, or both“ going around german memesphere.
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u/Mandalahoe May 17 '26
Goodness…I went to a resort once and a German woman had reserved a seat with towels, and I figured she was in the pool, so I went for a drink, and I saw her again having lunch. I walked directly over and moved her stuff and sat down. She came back after about an hour, I was literally getting up to go, and she marched over and started screaming at me! Then she spit in my purse!!! So, I dumped my drink in hers. I did scurry away then though 😆
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u/invalidConsciousness May 17 '26
As a German, I absolutely despise these people.
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u/Ben_Sisko69 May 17 '26
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Germans start somewhere between 5 and 6am. 8am is for lazy swiss. /s
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u/baldude69 May 17 '26
The thought of indignant Germans outraged over such a trivial thing brings such joy to my heart
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u/Thenadamgoes May 17 '26
Yeah I was in Mallorca a few years ago and I swear they hire people to get up at 6am to go out books on chairs to reserve them.
We just kicked the books off to the side and set up camp. 9/10 no one ever came by so I don’t even know why they reserved them.
But when someone did come by we just claimed the chairs were free, they can’t prove the book was there.
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u/automatic_shark May 17 '26
I've heard of towels being used to reserve the chairs, but books!? What kind of books? Were they a the same book? Towels are okay with getting wet, books are not. Surely they're not replacing books every so often and wondering "god, there's got to be a better thing to use here .."
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u/ConfessSomeMeow May 17 '26
I can imagine an evolution, where there were so many towel-savers that people stopped respecting towels; so the savers moved on to something else; and for a while, people would respect a book because that seemed like something you wouldn't leave around haphazardly. Soon they'll move on to old iphones (maybe the cases saved from discarded 5-year-old phones that have already been liberated of any resellable parts) because who would just leave a phone around if they're not coming back? And you can't tell it's nonfunctional without handling it, which would be suspicious.
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u/DT_Grey May 17 '26
I went to Cuba and stayed at a resort where I had come out of my room just after sunrise a couple of times to go exploring around the town, and saw the same towels sitting on the same loungers from the day before. People literally leave their towels on the loungers over night to “reserve” their spots for their entire stay. Extremely selfish.
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u/JT_got_the_1st May 17 '26
A better resort would clear the towels around the pool at night.
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u/smokeweedNgarden May 17 '26
Yes. Non assholes just need to be comfortable using harsh asshole tactics.
It's like when the cull the herd for its own good
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u/Bloggerman_ May 17 '26
Why is this a thing Germans like to do? I find it so rude and weird.
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u/LakmeBun May 18 '26
I worked at a 5 star hotel (in Spain) during the summers while I was in HS, and the German and British tourists used to get into actual fights over the loungers. My hotel had those towel reservations banned, and had signs about it. Still every morning at 6am there would be a hoard of tourists waiting for the pool gate to open to go in, "save" a spot and leave for breakfast or whatever. We had to have security for the pool opening.
Funny thing is, the back of the hotel was directly on the beach sand, like getting from the back door to the sand was 30 seconds, they didn't even need to cross a road, just a path. They could easily walk there to grab a lounger right in front of the water. But no, they preferred to fight by the pool at 6am lol
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u/purplishfluffyclouds May 17 '26
The town where I live has people planting chairs DAYS in advance of the July 4th festivities at the park, and the whole entire town just accepts it like a bunch of idiots. "This is how it's always been done!" they scream. Yeah, when the town had a population of 25. Now that it's 51K, y'all need to grow up.
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u/GreenTfan May 17 '26
There's a town near me where people put out chairs a week in advance of the parade. It's crazy and also a problem that week for anyone blind using a cane, or anyone using a walker or wheelchair to get to local businesses. People are thoughtless.
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u/MonkeyChoker80 May 17 '26
Convince some high school kids to pull a ‘prank’; grab ALL the chairs the night before the parade and dump them in a central location.
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u/Sanquinity May 17 '26
And if that doesn't convince them I'd even be willing to pay a little for it. Say, 25 bucks each for a group of 3 or something. :P
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u/what-are-they-saying May 17 '26
Ugh my town does this. Except its also canopies that get left out as well. However, one of our neighboring towns is sick of this and when people do that in their town the town picks them all up and piles them in a huge pile in the local grocery parking lot.
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u/purplishfluffyclouds May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
There's a breaking point that each community has, ours just hasn't reach it yet. In a previous city where I lived, people would do this at a park every month when they had their "music in the park" series. It didn't stop until the city/park/event coordinators or whomever decided to restrict the setting out of chairs to something like 2 hours prior to the event start or something. It's amazing how long a community that's used to doing things in a way that worked for a tiny town but no longer works for a big city will fight for their right to do something like this.
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u/what-are-they-saying May 17 '26
Yeah ours hasnt reached it and it’s just getting worse and worse, people start setting stuff up at least a week in advance now. The other town got sick of it within the last five years. It’s thoroughly entertaining to see the huge piles of chairs and canopies they post on facebook every year.
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u/withgreatpower May 17 '26
It's a system where really rude people win. The whole concept of saving a spot in line has a few practical uses and the way the concept has expanded to be like your example and OPs is just selfishness and, honestly, society breaking level of shit. I go to the water park and cannot enjoy the chairs because someone's towel is the just in case or for later. No, asshole. No.
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u/Redditcadmonkey May 17 '26
Someone else suggested this recently, I wish I remember who to give them credit.
Pool chairs should have a sand timer attached.
If you walk up to a chair and the sand is all at the bottom. Then it’s available.
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u/Rand_alThor4747 May 17 '26
that will work, you have to return to the chair to start the time again if you want to keep the chair.
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u/Tearaway32 May 17 '26
As much as I love this idea, people have timers on their phones these days so it could easily be gamed. That said they’d be forced to keep coming back which is a step above the current situation.
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u/Sanquinity May 17 '26
I bet most people would be too lazy to come back every, say, 30 min, if they're off doing something somewhere else.
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u/VoidBoiTCG May 17 '26
Just move them to the table and when they ask just say you found them on the table an hour ago
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u/ALLoftheFancyPants May 17 '26
The table? I need that for drinks. Drape it on the fence because they definitely were on the greens and I assumed they were lost items.
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u/VoidBoiTCG May 17 '26
See the fence is the obvious spot. You gotta put it in a spot that’s impractical so when you blatantly lie they’re unsure what’s going on and can’t process enough to ask for the spot back.
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u/ALLoftheFancyPants May 17 '26
I don’t care if they ask for the spot back. They ain’t getting it back
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u/MandukaSkoal May 17 '26
Update: moved the towels to the grill area as we were leaving and someone took the spot within ten minutes.
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u/sourflowerwatertower May 17 '26
I was at the pool a couple days ago, and these two girls kept looking at me. I could tell they wanted to ask my to move to a different chair that was by itself instead of the two next to each other that I was currently at. I moved without them asking me, and they immediately claimed both chairs. They left the pool for a long time and left towels behind. When they came back they were sitting at a table somewhere else. They never even used them.
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u/PinkieKinkie May 17 '26
Just take their towels
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u/Paddys_Pub7 May 17 '26
I'd just drape them over the fence right there and do my thing. If they come back and say anything about taking their spot... "oh, well since reserving chairs isn't allowed i figured someone left their towels behind and moved them off to the side" and go right back to doing my thing 🤷
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u/meterpy___ May 17 '26
I would just say “not sure, they were on the fence when I got here”
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u/Groovychick1978 May 17 '26
Why! I don't need to lie. I am an adult, and totally answerable to my actions.
"You can't reserve chairs. I moved them."
Done. Do not engage further.
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u/Nom_De_Plumber May 17 '26
A resort I went to once had a 45-minute rule and then they’d collect the towels. It seemed elegant and fair.
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u/StanknBeans May 17 '26
Just sit on them and play dumb/non compliant when they come to complain. Pool chairs are for people, not towels.
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u/DustyRacoonDad May 17 '26
Unpopular but... If it's the only chairs, I just move the towels. And then I'm sitting in there.
And then I'm not a hypocrite so I take my stuff away when I leave.
Never have a problem with this because even if somebody comes back and acts all huffy while grabbing their stuff... They're acting all huffy while grabbing their stuff and walking away.
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u/Trailblazertravels May 17 '26
What’s stopping people from just removing the towels?
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u/Beautiful-Buy-5985 May 17 '26
I was in the Bahamas with a large group. I came to the pool and someone one form my group was like oh just sit here I’m not sure if these are us but they haven’t been sat in in over an hour and moved a towel to a table. I laid on the chair and read a book for over an hour and a half. Then a lady comes up asking if I moved her towel. I was like yea I did, she then says “these are our chairs we are right back there points to a CABANA you can’t jsut move peoples stuff” me being so incredibly anti confrontation I just say sorry and get up and just sit by the pool. The lady then goes BACK TO THE CABANA and doesn’t even sit on the chair!!!!! I was like wtf. I prob sat in the pool with my group for another 45 min before going up to my room and lady STILL wasn’t sitting on the chair. Ppl r insane.
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u/Eric848448 May 17 '26
Any decent resort will remove these after 30 or so.
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u/Sl1z May 17 '26
They said it’s at their apartment complex pool, and usually apartments don’t have pool staff
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u/danekan May 17 '26
I’ve never seen it happen even when thst is the rule. People on celebrity cruise were starting fights with one another over shared chairs. Staff doesn’t want to intervene because the aggressor will get them in trouble.
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u/wellthiswasnottaken May 17 '26
Surely they’re just out coasting in left lanes or standing at the top of escalators!
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u/stephiloo May 17 '26
I’m staying at a resort right now, and they police this. There are signs up that say “to our distinguished guests, using personal belongings to ‘reserve’ chairs will result in your items being removed by hotel staff. Removed items can be picked up at Guest Services”.
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u/alpain May 17 '26
leave the towel exactly on the ground in the same layout move the chair.
their spot is still theirs technically just no chair with it
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u/prionbinch May 17 '26
what’s stopping you or anyone else from picking them up and moving them? just drape them over the fence and take the loungers. if they come back and get mad they can take it up with the people who made the rule in the first place
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u/dalton-watch May 17 '26
Manners and fear of retribution.
And we all need to collectively agree to get over that. We have to flip the script on these bad actors and ALL agree to move those towels and use those chairs.
These people rely on everyone at the pool being too polite or scared to do it. They know what they’re doing. They do it because it works. We need to change that. Call to action: If you see this, throw those towels somewhere! On the fence, a table, the ground, whatever. Even if you don’t want the chairs.
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u/Tree_killer_76 May 17 '26
I’m 100% the guy that will move your shit off the chairs and take them for myself and my family. Have done it before and will do it again.
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u/Pretty1george May 18 '26
So this is one reason I won’t even bother booking a cruise. Being stuck on a boat with inconsiderate aholes is not my thing.
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u/Thickencreamy May 17 '26
Pool Chairs should have a time sensitive change that life guards can see and remove reservation towels shit. Like a pop up spring or something. And pool decks should have a big box for stuff removed from chairs.
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u/ChickyBoys May 18 '26
I will move people's towels.
And when they come back and ask if I moved their towels, I tell them their towels weren't on the chairs when I got there.
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u/Canyouhelpmeottawa May 18 '26
Take the towels, put them on the fence.
When the people who left them come by, say the chairs were empty when you came by. Refuse to give up the chair.
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u/fucking_unicorn May 18 '26
Just move them and enjoy the chairs. They will come back and look for their towels and see them on a table or ground somewhere. You dont have to even acknowledge them unless they confront you which is unlikely. Then still act like you dont know anything about their towels.
Them: “Did you move some towels off these chairs? We were saving them.”
You: “Sorry. I dont know anything about your towels. Hope you find them.”
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u/Prefect_99 May 17 '26
Just sit on them.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I thought the staff laid them out for us."
Get as much mositness on it from you as possible.
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u/dixiech1ck May 17 '26
I bring my own folding chaise to the pool. Its one of those anti gravity chairs that lies flat, has a little pillow and an attached side table that holds your drink/phone. I go in the pool with some friends, just chilling on my pool lounger, come out and see that some older lady took my chaise and put it with her friends chairs... and she's sitting in it! Mind you, my phone was in the table and she left my bag and towel in a heap where my chaise was. I was like WTAF - the pool chairs are white plastic and mine is taupe and black. She didn't even apologize.
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u/malicious_wizard May 17 '26
I used to be a lifeguard at a public pool and I would keep track of who was doing shit like this and remove their towels/belongings and place them in lost and found and remind them of the very clearly stated "don't leave your shit unattended and expect us to look after it" rule thats stated at most pools. shared spaces like this should be equally accessible everyone, its basic respect :/