Please tell me that this situation would annoy you as well....

[kristavws]

So, each week I take my boys to swim lessons. My oldest is too old to go into the women's shower/dressing room, which is fine, as they have family dressing rooms. EVERY week however, there is some mother that thinks her time is much more valuable than everyone elses. Each week, I pick up my boys from the pool area, and walk to the family dressing rooms, only to discover that some woman is camped out in there STILL WAITING for her children to arrive (and of course their kids always seem to be the last ones out of the pool). Yesterday, I get to the dressing rooms (there are already other people in front of me waiting as well), and some woman is standing there in the doorway of one of the dressing rooms. She looks at me and says, "I can't believe so and so isn't here yet......." Several minutes pass, and I finally look at her and state the obvious, "You know I don't think you are suppose to hold the dressing rooms." She then goes on about how her daughter is modest and such. I'm thinking, that's fine, when your daughter gets here, get in line with everyone else. I then informed her that I, (as well as others waiting for one of the family rooms), didn't have the option to use the women's dressing room as I have boys. So, she vacates the room. I probably should have just kept my mouth shut, but after a year of it, I guess I was just fed up. Would this seriously annoy anyone else?

Krista

[JFS in IL]

You spoke up and are hereby proclaimed the Heroine of the Pool Moms!!! You did the right thing! That woman was being self-centered and obnoxious to try and reserve the family room when there were other folks with their kids ready and needing to use it! Good for you!!!

[Unicorn]

You spoke up and are hereby proclaimed the Heroine of the Pool Moms!!! You did the right thing! That woman was being self-centered and obnoxious to try and reserve the family room when there were other folks with their kids ready and needing to use it! Good for you!!!

:iagree: I think it was very rude of her. Hopefully she got the message.

[Elaine]

Yes, that would annoy me, too. You did the right thing.:001_smile:

[beansprouts]

Well done, Mama! :thumbup1:

[GreenKitty]

I would have done the same.

[mom2g2b]

It annoys me when a single woman walks out of the family restroom at the mall when I'm waiting with three children and pregnant. The large ladies restroom is next door. It isn't like this person can't go into a stall there.
I think you did the right thing.

Vickie

[nukeswife]

You absolutely did the right thing. I also have 2 boys one is still young enough to be in the women's dressing room with me but the other just turned 9 so he's too old to be in there with me.

I understand that her dd may be modest blah, blah, blah. Just like you said she's free to use the family room, but she must get in line just like everybody else. Her mom can't reserve it for her and make everyone else that's already there wait. If she gets cold waiting in the hall, oh well then she should vacate the pool earlier to beat the rush and not have to wait in line.

:hurray: I applaud you for speaking up.

[jmgconner]

You spoke up and are hereby proclaimed the Heroine of the Pool Moms!!! You did the right thing! That woman was being self-centered and obnoxious to try and reserve the family room when there were other folks with their kids ready and needing to use it! Good for you!!!

:iagree:

[betty]

Family dressing room get in and out quickly and let others go. Honestly, I think women with girl children and men with boy children shouldn't clog up the family dressing at all. Or they should be last in line. They have another option, you don't.

[*anj*]

Here's another mom of boys saying "Thank you."
That's utterly ridiculous. She didn't need that family dressing room.

When we took swimming lessons at the Y my kids changed in the regular dressing room and I'd hold an enormous towel around them for privacy. I wouldn't dream of taking up a whole family dressing room for one child if I could just as easily take her into the regular changing room.

[melissel]

Oh, good heavens! You totally did the right thing, and good for you for doing it.

[Crissy]

It annoys me when a single woman walks out of the family restroom at the mall when I'm waiting with three children and pregnant. The large ladies restroom is next door. It isn't like this person can't go into a stall there.
I think you did the right thing.

Vickie

:001_huh: I've been that woman. There have been moments in my life when, for personal female matters, I could not wait ONE MORE second for a stall to open up. So I've used the handicapped stall, or the family restroom. By the time I was finished, the other stalls were, of course, open and I probably appeared to the families waiting to be an insensitive twit.
Certainly the OP's situation is different, but in the case of regular public restrooms, you just never know.

[hisleading]

ummm....yes, that would annoy me too!

That reminds me of a time when we were looking for a parking spot at a shopping mall and we found one...BUT there was a guy sitting in the middle of it!!! Dh rolled down the window and asked him to please move adn he said he was saving it for someone who was on their way! :glare: WHAT!???

some people.....they think the world revolves around them I suppse

[elegantlion]

You spoke up and are hereby proclaimed the Heroine of the Pool Moms!!! You did the right thing! That woman was being self-centered and obnoxious to try and reserve the family room when there were other folks with their kids ready and needing to use it! Good for you!!!

:iagree::iagree:

[skissugar]

i gave up having my kids change at the pool.. I dry them off as fast as i can, wrap a towel around them and bring them home to shower and change here. I have one boy and one girl. neither is old enough to go in a shower/changing area by themselves so they get to both go in the girls.. i got so tired of waiting for rooms to change that i finally decided the amnt of time i spend waiting i could have drove home and they could be in a nice warm shower. So that is what i do, Kids arrive at the pool with swimsuits on, and we go home with swimsuits on. Of course this means extra towels in the van seats but im fine with that :)

[Kim in Appalachia]

:hurray: I'm sure that's what all the other mom's were doing. (even if it was only in their mind)


:cheers2: and :thumbup:

[kristavws]

Thank you for your comments. I felt bad about the incident afterwards, and probably wouldn't have said anything if she hadn't made the comment directly to me. I feel better knowing I am not the only one that found this woman's actions (and all the other women that do this week after week) selfish and rude.

Thought I would mention.....one week I was waiting for a dressing room, along with about 6 other families. The door to one of the rooms opened and a man and a woman came out of the room ALONE - no children! They were not young - probably in their 40s. Everyone just looked at each other, and no one took the room. I didn't say anything to them, but I did complain the front desk!

Krista

[*anj*]

The door to one of the rooms opened and a man and a woman came out of the room ALONE - no children! They were not young - probably in their 40s. Everyone just looked at each other, and no one took the room. I didn't say anything to them, but I did complain the front desk!

Krista

Ummm, yeah. I've heard stories of couples having date nights where they go to dinner, the dressing room, and then a movie before heading home to their children.

[MelissaD]

I don't mind anyone using the family changing rooms (I have no idea what issues they might have) but everyone needs to wait in the line. First come, first served.

[mo2]

Yep, I would have been annoyed. I hate it when single people use the family restrooms at stores too. It was nice of you to speak up, as there were probably other people waiting who were too "nice" to say anything.

[summer]

I would be livid.

[cin]

This reminds me of a time when I was in a store and was trying on a pair of jeans. They only had 2 dressing rooms. I went into one, and proceded to disrobe. Then someone tries to open the door. They knocked and knocked. I said I'll be done in a few minutes, thinking, what kind of moron doens't take the LOCKED DOOR hint? The response was...I need to get in there, my stuff is in there. I repeated what I said, but thought, geez, I didn't see a reserved sign on the door! When I came out, she was very annoyed with me for 'taking' her room. I said I didn't know the room was reserved. There wasn't sign on it. (It was a snotty day!)

Cindy