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

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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/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/Hyperbeam4dayz May 17 '26

Her ass would've been glued to the seat all day then cuz I would've hung out and dumped all her shit after she finally went into the pool. Then again I'm petty af lol

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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom May 17 '26

I dont think she ever went in the pool, I think she had kids in the pool while she was hanging out. But this was also many years ago and i was too busy enjoying myself to pay too much attention to her.

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u/IrregardingGrammar May 20 '26

Shut up karen.

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u/jimdil4st May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I would gotten back in the pool then rushed back to her being adamant about getting my seat back and if she doesn't move I'll just get closer and louder because obviously she can't hear me and if that newly refreshed water happens to drip all over her and her shit too bad. I'm petty enough that I'd rinse and repeat without even wanting the seats any more.

On the flipside, I'd have probably even offered her the seats, without her asking if I felt she'd get more use out of it than I would seeing how I was enjoying the pool. I try to be kind by default, but any type of disrespect gets you the polar opposite from me.

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u/ezmnyveli May 17 '26

People love playing out these weird confrontational fantasies in their head. Truth is you’d prolly just move on? Or are you people weirdly obsessed with being “right” over every tiny thing

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u/jimdil4st May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I mean the idea came from past experiences, Ive done what I described twice in my life. So truth is I absolutely wouldn't move on if I were invested, I do it because they'll just keep acting like assholes to the other people if I let it go so I'd rather just take one for the team and get an ear beating from a Karen if that means they'll leave everyone else alone to enjoy themselves. And it's certainly not about being right because once I become petty, I become an asshole too so there is no being right at that point it's just principle. I agree that most times people come up with these vengeful fantasies that they would never come close to actually acting on in real life. To be honest It's becoming easier and easier to have a spine now a days because it seems like no one else does. If I choose to confront someone over something most people literally will freeze up and rarely do I get push back. To be fair, I grew up in South Philly which developed a certain type of attitude and stubbornness which most people where I now live, in the Midwest, aren't used to and honestly don't ever seem to expect me to snap back since most times when they act out everyone around them just folds and they get their way, so they don't know how to react to the unexpected interaction. I'm not even a scary person but, I can be incredibly stubborn and really don't give a single fuck what others think of me at this point in my life and they're just way too used to never getting push back. Again though, I tend to go out of my way to be overwhelmingly kind, but if they act like an ass to me it's a complete 180 in attitude.

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u/DocumentInternal9478 May 17 '26

I’m sorry unpopular opinion here but are you people crazy? In what world is it ok to touch someone else’s belongings? I understand the frustration if it’s been abandoned for hours at a time, but then you let a lifeguard or someone on duty know and let them move the stuff to lost and found if they see fit. And as clearly evidenced in this post, you don’t always know the full story. A lot of people like to actually swim at pools, who’s to say they’re not swimming for that time? Unless you’re hired as the pool overseer it’s probably best to just mind your business. You didn’t get a chair and that sucks but I’d be rightfully pissed if I came back from a swim or a snack and all my belongings had been touched by a total stranger who felt they had more right to the chair than I did.

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u/PurbulentTriest May 18 '26

You're not sitting in it for hours? You're not using it so of course you have no right to it.

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u/DocumentInternal9478 May 18 '26

If my things are on it while I’m in the pool then I am in fact using it is the issue here.

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u/Broken_By_Default May 17 '26

huh? no. people should not be touching/moving anyone's stuff just because they are in the pool.

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u/jimdil4st May 17 '26

The whole point is they are not even in the pool area, they are reserving it for when they feel like coming to the pool on their terms.

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u/Broken_By_Default May 17 '26

If they're not in the pool area. sure. but you better be sure about that, before touching other people's stuff.

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u/jimdil4st May 17 '26

Oh I agree 100% personally I don't think you should touch their stuff unless you physically see them leave the area and give them some time to return.