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5 mins early

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HappyHelper123 · 26/01/2025 13:50

First world problem getting me frustrated...

My DS has 1:1 swimming lessons at a private pool as he has a disability needing specialist teaching. We're allowed to arrive 5 mins before to get changed (the changing room is separate to the pool but you have to walk through the building to get to it) - any longer apparently disrupts the child before.
We get told off for arriving too early (7 mins before, for instance) even though my watch shows we're 5 mins early. So today we sat in the car and waited till we were definitely 5 mins early and no more, and ended up getting there after the lesson start 🙈
So I figured either my clock is wrong or theirs is....we're both using our phones to check against.
Sometimes my colleague and I show different times on our computers even though we sit next to each other and work off the same network so it is possible that not every electronic device shows the same time.
But either way I feel a bit frustrated that it's even an issue, to be in a changing room "an extra 2-3 min" outside the 5 mins (which is noise proof as we can't hear other kids getting ready in there whilst we're swimming)
I'm extra sensitive atm due to hormones so it could be just me!

Ps when it's warmer I'd just arrive already dressed for swimming to save the aggro but it's making me really twitchy atm

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purpleme12 · 26/01/2025 21:55

I'd just keep coming 7 minutes early personally
And I'd tell them on my phone it says we're 5 minutes early which is when we were told to come

Snoopdoggydog123 · 26/01/2025 21:57

This sounds like a them issue.
Keep doing what you're doing.

purpleme12 · 26/01/2025 21:59

Exactly

BlondeMamaToBe · 26/01/2025 22:00

What bloody difference does 5 or 7 minutes make? I’d be finding somewhere else and telling them how ridiculous they are.

BottomWibblyWob · 26/01/2025 22:12

BlondeMamaToBe · 26/01/2025 22:00

What bloody difference does 5 or 7 minutes make? I’d be finding somewhere else and telling them how ridiculous they are.

This!

stayathomer · 26/01/2025 22:16

Agreed you should talk to them and tell them it’s putting you under pressure none of you need!

HappyHelper123 · 28/01/2025 19:10

Thank you everyone!

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