I'm on holiday (baby sleepin dh out with older son so sitting on balcony having a sly cig and wine) in a big resort type place.
3 pools, one kids with big and small slide. It's not the best lay out. Small slide for tots goes into shallow (70cm) bit of pool which is separated from deeper end where the big slide empties but whole thing is no deeper than 120cm. Ds is 6 and been going up and down it for days, obeying the obvious rule of don't go down until the person before is clear.
So today ds and another boy who is 9 were going up and down over and over again. A rather portly (this is relevant, being rather portly myself I'm well aware of the splash I make) family (mum, dad and two daughters mid twenties) came around the pool and started going down the slide. No problems. Then more friends turned up, there was about 13 in total. They all started using the slide and weren't leaving any space in between. Ds and his mate were in amongst them all so dh joined in to slow it down. He'd let the 2 boys go down then let them get clear before going. The pool is quite small though.
Anyway this group were getting wilder and wilder and dh asked them to give the kids a chance to get clear but was ignored. They were coming down right after each other and it was mayhem, water everywhere, soaked my pram which was as far as possible from the pool (about 3m) and sending wave after wave over dh ds and his pal.
So I lost it.
I stood up and started shouting at them to calm the fuck down and let the kids get out the road. Then I called them a shower of arseholes. I got a round of applause from other people but I'm not proud at losing the head like that.
The usually vigilant lifeguard turned up 5 minutes later (there's 4 pools he covers) and chucked them out.
I feel a bit sheepish. I'm usually a seething type. Dh wasquite proud!