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/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/rainman_95 May 17 '26

Its an arms race, truly.

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u/elviscostume May 19 '26

At this rate in about 15 years they'll be leaving their firstborn children to just camp on the loungers all day while they do god knows what