Random man moved my beach bag and towel from my sun lounger and chucked them on another one behind

[Winter3000]

I'm on holidays.
I arrived at the little beach early for a swim.
There are free sun loungers there for everyone to use, plenty were free.

I put my bag and towel (scrunched up)on a free sun lounger at the front, closest to the water, lay there for a bit and then went for a swim. The water is very close by.
While I was in the water, I saw a young woman, a middle aged woman and a middle aged man arrive by my sun lounger.
The 2 women lay down on two empty sun loungers next to mine.
The man hovered around for a bit, he was standing there beside my sun lounger, looked around and then chucked my bag and towel on to a different sun lounger behind mine. He made to put his stuff on my sun lounger.
I saw it all.
I got out of the water went up to him and gave him a piece of my mind. Loudly. People started looking. He denied it but I told him I was watching him.
He looked embarrassed.
The younger woman said something, don't know what but it wasn't 'sorry', and I told her not to make excuses for him.
They all looked mortified.
A girl on her own nearby looked over approvingly.

What an arsehole! Did he give you it back?

Presumably he thought you were reserving the sunbed while you went back to bed/have breakfast? He should have apologised though - was their a language barrier to him doing so? Perhaps they just had no manners.

I’m on his side

Yes he did.

I was pretty loud.
I was standing there with my hands on my hips, right up in his face.

Why! She was just swimming 🤷‍♀️ should people remove their belongings when they pop to the loo? To go buy an ice cream?

They were speaking Russian.
He knew fine well what he was doing because I saw him hover by my sun lounger for a bit, look around and then throw my stuff on to another sun lounger behind.

YABU to be aggressive about a sun lounger. Shouting in his face is not acceptable and you could have calmly told him that was your lounger and to put your stuff back.

what is sorry in Russian …

Personally, I am fed up to the back teeth of people who reserve their sunlounger but are still in bed for bloody hours or even most of the day. He had no way of knowing you weren't one of them. But you got out of the water, marched up to him and started laying into him LOUDLY straight away. Did the polite approach FIRST not occur to you?

So basically you loudly and verbally attacked a bunch of people, accused a woman of making exuses even though you had no idea what she was saying, and totally bypassed any manners in the first place.

You sound no better than you accuse them of being, and probably worse.

Brits abroad - just shout loudly and everyone will understand what you mean.🫣

When did I say I was British?
I'm not.

I don't see the issue. Its bot like you were left without a lounger, he put your stuff on a different one so that he could lay down near his family.

I'd be annoyed if his actions had left me without one at all but otherwise you hugely over reacted

Could you have dragged the other sun lounger to sit immediately in front of the one he stole?
That would have amused me.

You sound awful. Was there any need to be so aggressive

yanbu . He was being a moron. You simply don’t do that to someone else’s things. I can’t believe anyone on here can excuse that. Shouting at him might be a big over the top, but I would certainly have called him an idiot and embarrassed him.

Why did you feel you had to get in his face? Ya u. And for your own safety, it's not wise to get in the face of a complete stranger.

Did everyone applaud?

Yuck.
Where I come from we call that scrag behaviour.

Good for you OP similar happened to me a few years ago, I went mad at the offending couple, they soon bloody moved 👍🏻 cheeky twats

chto is Russian for what.
izvinu is sorry in Russian.

Takes guts to be assertive while wearing only a swimsuit, brava OP.

And what is your AIBU? Or did you just want us to applaud you?

What's with all the aggression, shouting loudly and "going mad"?

Why is it so difficult for people to calmly say "excuse me, those are my belongings, I'm already using that lounger"

Assertive isn't getting all up someone's face yelling. She was more the aggressor than anything a pest.

Yes I thought that but then thought actually she's on holiday so maybe she's stressed generally