[Skiplarue]

The end is the end, so I'll keep my opinions to myself about ^ except to say I agree with QC.

Yesterday I took the kids to the town pool. lots of locals, lots of visitors, and 99% of the time everything is good. Even had a fun chat with a retired NYPD guy up here looking to move up here.

But there eventually has to be one. Set the scene: big pool, no shade trees, hot deck many pool chairs but not enough to go around. There are, however, two tarps that have been set up to provide a meager triangle of shade at two corners of the deck. Everyone is usually very polite and considerate about the shade. You know, like letting seniors have them, not letting your kids dump their stuff there and take off, not dumping your stuff and leaving, sitting so as to fit as many chairs there as possible...yada yada. Usually 5...

I get there and one corner is full the other empty. Whoot! But no. Three chairs are there widely spread, each with a towel in them, and bags of stuff all around them, and the remaining shade where at least one more chair might fit are a slew of shoes. in the shade. shoes.

The pool is busy, I'm disappointed, but don't think much of it at first. After about 30 minutes, I have the whole picture. A large family, about 7 kids and two adults were there. Aside from the shrill screaming and the mother yelling every 5 minutes they were fine, EXCEPT... they used the shade chairs and space to put all their belongings, shoes, bags, towels, toys, and then took another 5 chairs for themselves to sit, in the sun, and another two to put their feet up in. And when a guy was looking for a chair to sit in - they heard him - they didn't budge. I mean, who does that?? Really, what kind of people do that? I honestly think it never occurred to them that they were doing anything wrong. I have to think that, just to keep from going off the deep end some days, I swear.

They left in a Suburban, the plates were not green, I'll leave it at that.

[toobusytoday]

I've found that if I'm pleasant to people, they will treat me the same way and I don't change when I'm on vacation. I think your nasty tourists are probably just nasty people vacationing in Vermont. I love Vermont, and we've been vacationing there for the last three years. I was happy not to see Pennsylvanians mentioned in this thread!

[Happy Vermonter]

Vermont has it's share of nosy, rude, pretentious people, Vermont would be nothing without tourists. I had to register and reply someone was reading this forum to me. If people just worried about themselves and what they were doing the world would be a better place. How rude to reproach a stranger, and people that don't drive the way you like them to, they don't live here they don't know where they are going and may have different customs. Lighten up and mind your own business.

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Skiplarue

The end is the end, so I'll keep my opinions to myself about ^ except to say I agree with QC.

Yesterday I took the kids to the town pool. lots of locals, lots of visitors, and 99% of the time everything is good. Even had a fun chat with a retired NYPD guy up here looking to move up here.

But there eventually has to be one. Set the scene: big pool, no shade trees, hot deck many pool chairs but not enough to go around. There are, however, two tarps that have been set up to provide a meager triangle of shade at two corners of the deck. Everyone is usually very polite and considerate about the shade. You know, like letting seniors have them, not letting your kids dump their stuff there and take off, not dumping your stuff and leaving, sitting so as to fit as many chairs there as possible...yada yada. Usually 5...

I get there and one corner is full the other empty. Whoot! But no. Three chairs are there widely spread, each with a towel in them, and bags of stuff all around them, and the remaining shade where at least one more chair might fit are a slew of shoes. in the shade. shoes.

The pool is busy, I'm disappointed, but don't think much of it at first. After about 30 minutes, I have the whole picture. A large family, about 7 kids and two adults were there. Aside from the shrill screaming and the mother yelling every 5 minutes they were fine, EXCEPT... they used the shade chairs and space to put all their belongings, shoes, bags, towels, toys, and then took another 5 chairs for themselves to sit, in the sun, and another two to put their feet up in. And when a guy was looking for a chair to sit in - they heard him - they didn't budge. I mean, who does that?? Really, what kind of people do that? I honestly think it never occurred to them that they were doing anything wrong. I have to think that, just to keep from going off the deep end some days, I swear.

They left in a Suburban, the plates were not green, I'll leave it at that.

If they made a left out onto the lane and were a bunch of blue plate specials, I've encountered them nearly running me off the same lane.


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[Rubi3]

Originally Posted by Happy Vermonter

Vermont has it's share of nosy, rude, pretentious people, Vermont would be nothing without tourists. I had to register and reply someone was reading this forum to me. If people just worried about themselves and what they were doing the world would be a better place. How rude to reproach a stranger, and people that don't drive the way you like them to, they don't live here they don't know where they are going and may have different customs. Lighten up and mind your own business.

But, people don't mind their own business. My brother lives in MA and when he is driving, he is determined to tell the other drivers how to drive and he does it by surrounding his words in the vilest language available. I detest having others try to tell me what to do. It brings out the rude part of me, but, I also know they won't stop.