Today at swimming once again I saw bags and coats spread out over tables and chairs with the swimming bag straps wrapped around them so no one took them. You may wait 10-20 mins with no one appearing to claim them.
Often I've had to sit on the floor with my dd(3), but today I moved the coats over and grabbed two empty seats over to table and left the chairs with bags on them there. As I was sitting a couple came and asked me if they could take the chairs, I told them I don't know who was sitting there, so they just took them anyway (rightly so imo)
About 15 mins later a man comes and plonks his son on the table and starts huffing and puffing:
"doesn't take long does it. Doesn't take long does it?" to his son. Then he starts saying to me loudly "it doesn't take long does it?! We were sitting here, I only went to get him!". I told him the seats weren't reserved and if there's no place to sit people will sit wherever is available. He kept going on at me saying it's all about manners and that I had none, so I told him to go and take it up with the receptionist if he's that bothered and that the seats weren't reserved so I can sit wherever I want. Then he started telling his kid loudly:
"We'll have to sit on the floor now, cos apparently these seats aren't reserved, sad isn't it?!"
To which I replied "stop being so passive aggressive and using your child like that, if yoU have a problem talk to the receptionist". And then I don't know why I started laughing at his pettiness and rudeness.
I hate it when people take seats like this. Surely you use the seats once you're ready to sit down, not hog them. I'd never leave my things on a chair to claim it. It's such a pathetic childish thing to do.