i did somethign really bad at swimming pool recently

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picture this, lessons, usual shannanigans. only a limited number of changing cubicles.
ages ago some parents hogged the cubicles while their children were swimming, by leaving their clothes in their!
i spose one started but people soon followed.
i complained. it stopped.
yesterday - someone had done it again - i know - the clothes were in their for all the time that my dc was getting dressed.

anyway - i felt so annoyed about this - i moved the shoes into the adjoining cubicle

Chatee - that clearly wasn't on, what happened in your case.

However, SBF, you were NBU considering clothes had been left for duration of lesson.

I go to a pool which has a tiny changing area - only 2 small benches. People regularly leave clothes on the benches when there are perfectly good, free lockers which don't even require a coin. I think it's really selfish and am not a bit concerned if the clothes left out happen to get splashed by me or DS.

People wouldn't dare leave anything in cubicles at our swimming pool, it would be stolen! You are advised to turn your moblie off if left in locker as if it rings someone is likely to break into the locker to pinch it

(And I have been tempted to hide them in a locker - where they should have been in the first place)

anyone else click on here thinking it might be a wee-related confession ? I don't think what you did was all that bad - but they'll not ever be sure why it was done. If it was me I would have taken the lot - clothes and all and deposited them somewhere in an unlocked locker perhaps or at reception. I think that would have given out a clearer message.

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as my waters went i said to dd lets get you dry really quickly as mummy needs your towel, and in typical 3.6 year old style the reply was"why mummy?", me being clever thought if we are quick i'll be able to put the small towel inside my pants and make a quick(well as quick as dd and her wheels would go)exit to the car, but no as i tried that i decided not to just trickle but too flood the place cue hyserics from dd about mummy weeing everywhere
and the story went from bad to worse but with the wonderful arrival of ds (safely)

the swimming pool staff were fantastic and when they heard my story they did a newsletter (not with the full story)but expalinign the importance of not using disabled areas and that cubicles were provided for clothes storage

well if anyone i know comes here they will defo reognise me....

Poor you Chatee!

And as you say, you've def outed yourself now!

{blush] for you chatee

This is a long standing problem where my dcs for swimming lessons. I was always complaining when ds2 had lessons and now some 8 yrs later when dd started the same thing is still happening. She no longer needs me to help her get dressed so can use a one person cubicle which there are more of. But when she was younger and needed a family cubicle I just used to use them and push the abandoned clothes to one side. If theowner returned before we had finished I just used to say "well you shouldn't have left them in the first place and think yourself lucky I'm not a clothes thief as dd could do with a new coat!!!". Hasn't made me very popular amoung the clothes abandoners but I don't care. I think it's inconsiderate to hog the few family changing cubicles.

scf - hiding shoes isn't really bad. Pooing in them would have been really bad. Or setting them alight. But, by far the most dreadful thing you could have done with them, would be to wear the hideous things.

chatee -

you are a wicked lot

At least it's only clothes. DH went into a cubicle at our local pool once and found someone had left a poo in it. Bet that person didn't have any trouble keeping that cubicle all to himself that day.

[special to hatwoman: no, me too]

YANBU. Surely if someone noted their shoes were missing they would have the common sense to have a cursory glance round and then find them anyway. It would have been worse to lock all the underwear in a locker

Like the thought of staff moving clothes routinely and putting in lockers/reception.

The swimming pool my dd goes to has notices up saying unattended clothes will be moved - but people still leave stuff in the cubicles.

YANBU.

Agreed onepieceoflollipop certainly wish at our pool they would do what their numerous posters dotted around the walls say they will do and remove the abandoned clothes

do it mumsnetters.
move those abandoned clothes

When I read your thread title I thought you were going to confess to weeing in the pool.

Am I bit disappointed

Sorry that should rread
Am a bit disappointed

Boy my spelling is bad today

I took ds to swimming lessons and school classes used to come in with their teachers and leave all their clothes in a family/group cubicle - which had a nappy changing table and a playpen so was fairly clearly equipped for babies/toddlers and their mums. I didn't see why they couldn't use other cubicles in twos, or at least put their clothes out of the way in a locker. Fortunately ds never weed on any of the kids' clothes but if they had they would have only had themselves to blame.

Thing was, this quite new sports centre has a "toddler" changing room which is one of 3 that women and children could use, but the space is laid out so you can't actually take a buggy in there, which when you use the buggy to carry all your extra swimming stuff (I don't drive) isn't of much help.

on the way there i was thinking - would it be feasible to make herput her swimming hat and goggles on while driving there!

it would be easier to arrive and leave in a costume wouldnt it?

I have done this. There are only 2 family changing cubicles in our local swimming pool, and posters all round telling parents not to leave their kids' stuff in the cubicles. My two DDs and I got out of the pool one day to find one cubicle occupied and the other with clothes left in it. I was furious ! Took the clothes and put them on the floor outside the cubicle. Just as I was putting the last item outside the offending mother came along, hesitated a moment, and then just took the pile away without saying a word. I've never seen her since!

It used to drive me mad! People are so lazy. I used to use the cubicle anyway-pushing their clothes to one side.

I would just use the cubicle with clothes in it, they may or may not get wet, but its not my concern as if the person who left them there was worried about it they would have used a locker. I defo wouldnt worry about it or waste energy getting cross!

i thought you meant you'd done something really bad, peed in the pool!
Not too unreasonable but a little pointless?

YWABU.

But why the need for cubicles in the first place? Modesty taken to extreme....

I used to use the family change rooms at our local pool, till a dad was in the same room with me changing his dd....

Now I use the female communal room.

They do have cubicles, but I just don't see the point.

People need to get over themselves!