Swimming pool cheeky fuckers

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Last week the DC and I were at a holiday park, and on Friday they went swimming for the 100th time. Massive pool, plenty of place for parents to sit and watch. I parked my chair at the back and sat down. After a while a family walked in. The man looked around, looked at me, took a chair and parked it right in front of me! Like literally almost touching my knees! So I got up and moved to the right. He then got up and took off his shirt to go swim. His back was covered in huge white spots/boils. This is still OK, but he then stood on the pool edge, reached around and started squeezing one of the spots. Yuck. Then walked around the pool while rubbing his chest and nipples. The wife then sat in his chair, and the teenage girl (wearing fur coat and Uggs poolside) looked around and, giving me a dirty look, put her chair right in front of me, around 2m from the wife's chair. I sighed heavily and move all the way to the left. Cue filthy looks from the wife and teenager. Man got out of the pool, pulled up a chair and parked it - you can probably guess - right in front of me - again! It's so hard to believe there are such nasty, rude people in the world.

WIBU to then move all the way to the right, and tell the two ladies sitting there loud enough for CFs to hear that I'm going to sit next to them, and explaining why, while pointing at the CFs. FFS - can't people think for themselves?

I just did a bit of sick in my mouth. That man was bad enough on his own without his family (vom)

Why didn't you just say something like "excuse me, would you mind moving a bit to the left/right, as I'm trying to watch my son in the pool and make sure he stays safe".

Is he allowed in the pool with boils all over him? Isn't there a rule about covering them like verucas?

Bleurgh that is why I never ever go to the pool. It's disgusting🤢🤢🤢

That is fucking rank

Did they say anything after you spoke to the 2 ladies? This was last Friday so all done now?

They didn't say anything - just kept giving me dirty looks and whispering among themselves. And I could've be bothered trying to confront them, I felt it was easier just moving my chair.

you've just made me never want to go to a public pool ever again . XD

Some people have no idea of personal space. I was in a shop recently and was just about to put a few bits belt at the checkout. A woman came right behind me very close and started putting her shopping on before I had started emptying my basket. I gave her a funny look as did the cashier but she seemed oblivious. She then proceeded to stand really close to me even when I was using the card machine to pay. Before I had a chance to pack my bits she was trying to get in my place. Had I have been doing a weekly shop I would have said something as I have done before. Lets just say I took mt time packing my bag, but she seemed oblivious to be honest.

It's shocking when it happens, but sometimes there really is no other explanation than they are trying to Start Something. It's just a power play and it's twatty.

I got a bit of vom in my mouth just reading that.

Reminds me of when I was in holiday. Dd was in the pool with Ds, as you walked into the pool there was a step which ran the whole length of the pool. The step wasn’t in very deep but was quite far from the sunloungers. For arguments sake about 30 people could have sat on the step at any time.

I was sat on the step watching the kids play in the pool, as the loungers were quite far away it wasn’t blocking anyone’s view.

I was sat on this step for about 20 minutes, various other people sat on the step then went off to swim etc.

After about 20 minutes dd shouted over to me that she didn’t want her goggles anymore, she started to swim over to me, I got up, walked about 6 steps, got the goggles, turned round and a woman was sat in my spot! It wasn’t near my spot, it was my exact spot. It must have still been warm from my arse cheeks! Nobody else was sat on the step so it’s not like there was space issues.

I got all passive aggressive, I sat down next to her so close our thighs were touching. She moved.

@Wateroffaduck - I got all passive aggressive, I sat down next to her so close our thighs were touching. She moved.

Excellent . Perhaps I should've leant forward and rested my chin on his shoulder. But then again ... those spots...

I think I would have gotten my kids out as soon as the boily bsd took his shirt off. Yuk!!!

Why do people do it? I had a similar event, was sat on some grass about the size of a tennis court, on my own. No one else there at all. A whole family came and sat around me. So close I could smell the beer they were drinking, listened to their entire conversation and at one point, they young child stood on me. I wished I had moved, but couldnt understand why they chose to do this?

Its madness!

I did consider getting my DC out of the pool, but that's a near to impossible task at the best of times lol. The pool was very busy and luckily he only staying in the water for about 10 minutes.

he only stayed!

I can't stand it when I'm in a queue and the person behind me tries to stand right up my arse. Why?? There's still the same number of people in the queue - they won't get to the front any faster! I shuffle forwards a bit and lo and behold, so do they. I deliberately try to wind them up now by staying where I am when the person in front of me moves. I can see them trying to move forwards and not being able to. Petty, I know but I can't stand the invasion of personal space.

I have noticed though that if I turn sideways pretending to look at whatever's on display they stop it as though their sense of personal space only applies when they can see your face.

I’d put him in the ‘boat so queer as folk category’ and just watch agog, smug in the knowledge that I do not behave like that

Boat = nowt

Mad I pretend I've no idea they're so close and step back hard...then say "Oh! And pretend to stumble a bit after I've stood on their foot"

But how were they cheeky fuckers?

When they come up your arse in the queue, I take smal step back and step on their toes or bend down to pick something up and bash them with my wide arse. They soon back off. Look at them all weird in a "did you just touch my bum" kind of way, it usually freaks them out.
The Boil covered Dad sounds so gross and his fmaily very odd, you are so patient.

I have posted this before, but when DS was having swimming lessons parents could only watch from a very long but narrow upper balcony.

Seats were in short supply anyway but if you got stuck at the wrong end you still couldn't see anything.

There was a sign saying just one family member per child on the balcony, with all other relatives being directed to a proper seating area in the next room (lots of space but no view of the pool).

One family used to turn up en masse every bloody week. Mum, Dad, and two siblings, often a grandparent or two, and so while one parent was helping to get their child changed the other would claim half the seats on the balcony for the entourage.

They annoyed everybody, every single week, but typically nobody ever said anything to them, just muttered about them to everyone else.

And one week I'd had enough, the only seat left was one being saved by the Dad, who was waiting for his wife to come up from the poolside.

So I sat on it, just as he put his arm across the back of it to try and stop me.

We were both quite surprised to find that his arm was around me at that point but we were also both stubborn enough to not move.

His wife was quite surprised when she got to the balcony and found us sitting there, side by side with his arm around my shoulders, carefully not looking at each other, and every other parent on the balcony in dead silence but definitely smirking.

He took his arm away though and I kept the chair.

But how were they cheeky fuckers?

Because they quite deliberately put their chairs right in front of me, three times, when there was plenty of other space available for them to sit.