Altercation over a changing cubicle

Totally agree. I do this solo with two kids one with Sen and I still manage. It’s not that hard. There are only 6 family changing rooms where I am so I’d be really irritated if someone was hogging one whilst in the shower.

I honestly can't get over people saying what a nightmare it is with wet kids and bags etc... as a single mum I've taken kids swimming by myself several times and the bag stuff really isn't that difficult?! Leave in locker whilst swimming, remove from locker when done swimming, then find a cubicle. I must be missing something!

This is what she said yes!

So annoying when people do this even if their kids are having 'a quick rince'...surprise surprise everyone needs to get changed after swimming lessons. Person who's rinced first gets first dibs in my view not people who have reserved them as thats selfish. Really annoys me too!

This happened to me years ago except I moved the stuff outside the room as I knew it belonged to one of the little shits who did swimming lessons who would be there for the next 45 minutes.

however one of the coaches saw and started screaming at me in the area.

i complained to the desk but they took the side of the class saying they had an unwritten agreement they could reserve rooms.

entitled little milngavie pricks

Can’t believe some of the replies on here! Of course you’re totally right. You can’t just ‘book’ a cubicle by dumping stuff in it.

I had a very similar thing with dd years ago, also with a ranting woman.

It’s also a v stupid thing to do as someone could nick their stuff or staff could put it in lost property.

YANBU

I'm not shocked.

'Me first and to hell with everyone else' is an increasingly common maxim and seems to have grown even worse since the pandemic.

Yet we weren’t talking about that scenario we were talking about hogging a changing room whilst showering.

If I’d left something by the pool I’d use common sense and collect it one we were done.

Using whataboutery to justify selfishness doesn’t make the behaviour less selfish.

Not in the least. You can't 'reserve' a cubicle. Changing facilities do not operate on that basis.

If they're not currently occupied then they are available for use.

A sensible person knocks on the door, explains they have left their child's things there and asks for you to pass them out.

You can't reserve a cubicle.

Even if you were wrong, swearing and ranting would not be ok.

Not sure why people get so bloody heated in swimming pool changing rooms but I saw some absolute craziness when my children were young. Glad those days are behind me!

No, I'm saying that's the risk you run if you leave your stuff lying around in a place where other kids will be getting changed. If you don't like the risk, it's up to you to use a locker.

@cadburyegg, at my local David Lloyd boys of 8+ are expected to use the male locker room. All very well when I took 2 x Gdds, Gds (8) and dh (on a guest pass) but not sure I’d have liked Gds to go on his own.

This.

And I’d add to that; people who drive large cars, eg Range Rovers, and park over two spaces. It makes me want to key their car tbh. Not that I would.

YANBU and people reserving cubicles makes me want to leave the country.

And also if her kids standing there cold if you won't knock and ask for your things just take your kid back to the shower to keep warm while you wait

OP YANBU and I completely agree with this poster I’ve quoted.

At my local pool, most people get their stuff from the locker, THEN look for a cubicle.

One time, I saw a lonely pair of goggles on the cubicle bench with no one to be seen anywhere. Then after few minutes, some woman knocks on the door saying she’d reserved that cubicle, so I handed her goggles back to her under the door! She didn’t say a word.

I think my pet hate in life, is selfish and entitled behaviour, which unfortunately seems to be becoming more commonplace.

Anybody who reserves a cubicle is a twat

quite happy to make other people wait as long as there ok

When my sons doing his lessons, I leave his stuff in the locker, meet him with a towel pool side, wrap him in it take him to a cubicle opposite it at least near the locker sit him down an go and get the bag. No need to reserve 🙄

Are you suggesting that you'd knock someone's stuff onto the floor? Yavu if so, no need for all that just because you don't like someone's choice to pop out of the cubicle.

@mumofoneAlonebutokay - as long as you're happy that sometimes your stuff will get locked in, fall on the floor or whatever, it's all entirely your choice.

Okay we're never gonna agree but I stand by my opinion

Plus, again, the op had the ability to choose another cubicle, so no-one was stood around. Every swimming baths I've encountered has been this way. It's really no big deal to just find another cubicle

Nobody finds the wet child, towel and bag super easy. That's exactly why we have the rule that you only block the cubicle when you're using it.

We use a waterproof backpack with a few sections as a swim bag, so dry stuff gets packed in the bottom and wet stuff in the top with soap. Hat and goggles go straight in as soap comes out to wash, trunks in if the shower is private. Towel out of the dry section and off to get changed, clothes and moisturise. We get a specific bus every week, so I know our timing is 6-8 minutes: 1 min walk to the shower, 1-2 min shower, 3 min dry/ dressed, 1-2 min for shoes and coats by the doors. We hustle a bit faster if we queued for the shower or if someone's waiting for the shower (unusual). I would not be waiting around for 5 min and then missing the bus just because some numpty can't figure out how to hold a towel and backpack for their kid.

No, I'm juggling dd's shoes, bath towel, bag, coat, water bottle and my stuff - which would all get wet as we have to walk past the showers to collect them and then return to the cubicle

And I've only got the one child, can't imagine the stress of managing several

Life's hard enough, no need to mske it needlessly harder

You just say I’m terribly sorry I didn’t see your stuff and get on with your day.
homestly. People

Hang around?? The op didn't say that there were no cubicles left do no-one was left hanging

There are lots of cubicles in my swimming pool - if I see someone's stuff in one, I just find another one

This isnt a case of entitlement imo, just common sense