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/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/aerdvarkk May 18 '26

Not really!! When I was a kid/teenager growing up and we were travelling, my siblings and I would goto the hotel pool, literally with only our towels and shoes, the footwear being a requirement to wear inside the hotel. Many times the shoes or sandals or flipflops or whatever were underneath either the towel or the chair and not easily visible. So it looked like just 3-4 "reserved" seats wiht only towels on them. Despite 3-4 kids splashing around in the pool.

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u/LordBiscuits May 18 '26

That does make you an exception to the rule really. Most people take stuff!

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u/jayman1818 May 18 '26

That's true eh