Swimming lesson etiquette

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Interested to hear your thoughts on this. A mum at my child’s swimming lesson has been going into the changing rooms early before the lesson ends and places towels over the showers to reserve them for her kids when the lesson is over. Last time she had 3 kids and had tried to reserve the only 3 showers in that area of the changing rooms. Loads of children out of the pool before hers and standing waiting infront of empty showers. I sent my child into the shower, ignoring the towels.

Yep she is being unreasonable - you can’t reserve showers or cubicles.

If she has three young kids i can understand reserving a big changing room so they don't have to wait forever or have a nightmare in a small one but reserving showers... Wtf!?

She's a CF. I'd have taken those towels to lost property.

Remove towels and use the shower as needed. There used to be loads of parents who would leave their stuff in the changing rooms so that anyone who hadn’t would be left with wet shivering kids standing waiting for a changing room that was being occupied by a pile of clothes. I have no patience for that shit so just took the clothes to an empty locker, told the teacher where they could find them and used the changing room.

Yes we have that problem - parents wait outside the shower cubicles and block kids from going in to them - outrageous!

In our case a polite “oh excuse me we just need to get to the shower, we will only be a few minutes” is usually enough