Splashing people in the pool?

[bullofred]

I saw a video where a woman was posing on some pool steps, she was about knee high in the water and her friend was taking photos.

This man purposely cannonballs into the water and soaks her and she visibly pissed off. All the comments are laughing saying she deserved it, they hate influencers (no evidence she’s an influencer) and that “not all hero’s wear capes”, it’s a public pool and she should expect to get wet.

Aibu to just not find it funny?

Meh, I couldn't get very upset by this.

I see it's a hotel pool, but I have a pool and I don't think I've yet seen a many walk into it using the steps. It is always usually a dive bomb into the pool. I use the steps as I don't like getting my face wet 😂 but the DC do not. Nor do most of the males in my immediate family.

If you don't want to get wet, don't be right by the pool. It's hardly rocket science.

Or, seeing as none of us can really give any more than an opinion on what it is, we just disagree.

Photobombing has been going on for longer than phones have had cameras and it’s happened to men, women, groups of friends, families, couples etc. This is just photobombing in a pool, which is inevitably going to involve splashing.

Saying MEN take up space for football makes it a MALE thing... so ye

Chance you take in a pool. If you are on the steps and I can't get past then I am going to jump in.

If you want a perfect pool shoot you hire a pool. You don’t block access to a pool that others are using or get to expect to stay bone dry dancing over the stair rails 🤷🏻‍♀️ man or women. The steps are for getting in and out not posing.

You never heard of saying excuse me

People don't generally queue at pool steps tbh.

There shouldn’t be a need to say excuse me at steps. Because people should just be using them for there purpose so in an excuse me case your be rushing someone struggling to get in and out.

If you want to ponce for photos private hire the whole pool and space around it. Maybe they should have asked everyone else there is they minded them hogging the pool steps for their photo shoot.

What if it was a mum who was sitting on the steps watching her children swim. Does she deserve an excuse me?

Yes and a maybe don’t sit there as you are stopping everyone entering and leaving the pool freely.

Steps are for stepping on not sitting or posturing on.

What if it was a mum who was sitting on the steps watching her children swim. Does she deserve an excuse me?

What DO YOU THINK?

you're really spoiling for a fight aren't you

If you go into a swimming pool, you will probably get wet.🙄

It’s like those signs that’s say caution slippy when wet. Like no shit most things are 🤣

Or these nuts may contain…. Nuts. Like I’d hope so thank you 🥜

Indeed...let's say you went swimming with your child and as they swum past someone,that person got a bit splashed. That's fair enough. Now let's say your child starts deliberately flicking water in a random person's direction. What would you do? Would you tell them to stop? I would.

Hmm is there any humour in that?

I'm making the point that yes whilst people should expect to get wet in a swimming pool, most people also abide by a general, unwritten code of conduct and wouldn't intentionally splash water over other people

She'd have to be pig ignorant to block the entrance/exit to the pool, instead of moving over a bit and sitting next to the steps.

So no, she should apologise and move herself without an excuse me.

I'm making the point that yes whilst people should expect to get wet in a swimming pool, most people also abide by a general, unwritten code of conduct and wouldn't intentionally splash water over other people

So you're not aware of any horseplay that goes on around holiday type pools?

You've never seen any bombing,jumping, splashing , pushing, diving when people are messing about?

Because I have. General unwritten conduct of larking around. Especially in jest.

You've articulated my thoughts perfectly.

She'd be told not to sit on the steps when there's the side to sit on, still able to dangle her feet in, rather than BLOCK the steps...

@ButWhatAboutTheBees bit dramatic, I don't think she's blocking the steps, it looks like there's plenty of room to get in and out on the photo someone posted earlier!

I think she's literally standing on the available metal steps.

But really, I don't think this bloke is bombing because he'd rather go in on the steps.

@ButWhatAboutTheBees wasn't talking about the woman in the video.

She was replying to the post she quoted?

No. Just no. Only to people you know, ie family, not strangers.

@DuncanMeBiscuit ok, but why imagine that a mother sitting watching her child would be blocking the steps any more or less than the woman in the video we're discussing?