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Who was right/wrong here?

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WhoMovedMyPeas · 26/07/2017 17:11

Scenario

Indoor Hotel Pool
Summer holidays
Very quiet spell

Woman A and children around pool. She has laptop and is using it and watching the children

Woman B comes in with her children
They settle and the children start to jump into the pool which causes a few tiny splashes which land on the laptop.

Woman A asks the girls to move to the other side of the pool to jump. They stay and continue to jump splashing the laptop more. Woman A covers laptop with towel and asks woman B of her children can move.

Woman B tells woman A that it's not a brilliant place to take a laptop and suggests she should put it away as they're in a swimming pool.

Woman A tells woman B that there are no viewing areas other than the side of the pool.

Woman B tells her children to continue jumping and having fun and that woman A should be enjoying time in the pool not staring at a screen.

Woman A hears this and tells woman B to fuck off learn some manners and that she is working and looking after her children. [confused
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OP posts:

LaurieFairyCake · 26/07/2017 18:31

Woman B is in the wrong - I wouldn't like any kid splashing me, laptop or otherwise.

There's plenty of room to not splash adults.

Original poster

WhoMovedMyPeas · 26/07/2017 19:02

You are a funny lot.

I work at the hotel
I also know one of the women in question as her family member stays with us frequently.

I am not a ghost 😂

We have CCTV-it was all very easy to see what was going on.

I won't give away too much more

We found with woman A

The pool is very large.

There are chairs/loungers all around.

Woman B chose to settle down very close to woman A

What I have missed out is that woman B was very verbal about tech being used around the pool and how idiotic it was and then she made part of her complaint that the woman A splashed her phone.
Woman B had her phone on during the entire time she was there and was taking photos using it for the duration.

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VeryButchyRestingFace · 26/07/2017 19:10

We found with woman A

Are you Judge Rinder?

AnnieAnoniMouse · 26/07/2017 19:11

Well done for siding with the right person 💐

Woman B was very verbal about tech being used around the pool and how idiotic it was and then she made part of her complaint that the woman A splashed her phone

Woman B is a complete 🤡 Numb nuts.

Littlechocola · 26/07/2017 19:11

Both should have been paying more attention to their children. Is the pool manned by a lifeguard? If not then both should have been asked to leave and join some parenting classes

Original poster

WhoMovedMyPeas · 26/07/2017 19:19

Parent A children are teens under 16

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WillowWeeping · 26/07/2017 19:26

Women B sounds awful, sitting right next to only other pool user and then telling woman A what she shouldn't be doing.

Nearly10to9 · 26/07/2017 19:26

Woman B was very verbal about tech being used around the pool and how idiotic it was and then she made part of her complaint that the woman A splashed her phone

So why didn't you say that before? Changes the story

Fluffypinkpyjamas · 26/07/2017 19:29

You missed that out, funny that.

JuicyStrawberry · 26/07/2017 19:30

Woman A was bang out of order. It's a swimming pool, not an office!

TheDowagerCuntess · 26/07/2017 19:33

They sound as petty as each other.

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WhoMovedMyPeas · 26/07/2017 19:41

Because if I'd written all of that in my first post it would've taken me about 45 minutes and I had to throw some food at my own children as they needed feeding .im so sorry I didn't write chapter and verse.
It's no different really to people posting "cancel the cheque" after 1000 posts.

Woman B has made a complaint
I wish I was Judge Rinder sometimes.

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SpartacusSaiman · 26/07/2017 19:42

Wonder if woman A is the regular?

BertrandRussell · 26/07/2017 19:43

What if Woman A had been reading a book?

Nearly10to9 · 26/07/2017 20:18

its hugely fundamental to the whole story,

you wrote

Woman B tells her children to continue jumping and having fun and that woman A should be enjoying time in the pool not staring at a screen.

Woman B was very verbal about tech being used around the pool and how idiotic it was and then she made part of her complaint that the woman A splashed her phone

Woman A hears this and tells woman B to fuck off learn some manners and that she is working and looking after her children.

bit of a different slant now?

AwaywiththePixies27 · 26/07/2017 20:22

Both are. Woman B shouldn't have encouraged her children to poss Woman A off more.

Woman A shouldn't have took her bloody laptop to a poolside where the risks of it getting it drenched are increased tenfold.

honeylulu · 26/07/2017 20:30

Woman B - unreasonable and rude. Sounds like one of those "no one else can tell my children off" types.

I do think woman A was rather silly though having a laptop poolside. Reminds me I'd an occasion when I was school age. We often used to swim at a local hotel (pool was open to the public for a fee at certain times). One time me and my friend were jumping in and larking about. A woman who'd ordered a meal from the bar decided to come and eat it on her lap at the poolside ... then moaned when it was accidentally splashed with chloriney water. We apologised but she was a bit of a pillock.

Marinade · 26/07/2017 20:33

This is hilarious... There is a huge difference between taking a laptop (immovable and fixed to a person by its intention and purpose) against a mobile device which, by very definition is easily hidden and flexible in terms of its positioning. Nothing to do with the concept of tech, its to do with the intention of the tech users, i.e. A thought the pool was a de facto office, B thought it was a recreational place. You were unreasonable and wrong in your assessment.

misshelena · 26/07/2017 22:29

You sided with the right person. It's a BIG pool, no need to splash anyone who doesn't want to be splashed.

Gingerandgivingzerofucks · 26/07/2017 22:36

Woman B sounds like a huge PITA. She was on her phone yet telling Woman A to move to avoid splashes? Why did she not sit away from Woman A? Silly cow.

Bluntness100 · 26/07/2017 22:40

To be fair I'd also have come down in the side of woman a.

If one side of the pool is the same as the other, then there was no good reason for b to encourage her kids to jump and splash a because she was using a lap top. She was being goady for reasons only she knows. And her kids should have been better brought up at that age to know that if they want to dive bomb the pool to do it where they cause the least disruption.

Nothing worse, than sitting relaxing by a pool and some little fucker is dive bombing it and splashing you, when they can do it the other side and not bug you.

rachrach2 · 26/07/2017 22:44

If woman A politely and kindly asked them to move and explained then I'd side with her. If she tutted and was abrupt then I'd side with B.

SolomanDaisy · 26/07/2017 22:50

Women A's kids are teens? So she needn't have been by the pool at all? She's very unreasonable, while woman B is mildly unreasonable. It would be common courtesy to ask your kids to jump and splash where they weren't going to splash people, whether the people had a laptop or not.

SolomanDaisy · 26/07/2017 22:52

In fact, unless they were very young the kids should already have an idea about that themselves. We spent a fair bit of time at the pool today helping DS find sensible jumping places.

Crumbs1 · 26/07/2017 22:57

Women B was unhelpful and rude. What effort would it take to ask children to move around to the other side?

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