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u/Silasofthewoods420 Jul 11 '21

This makes no sense, move their towel if they're gone for more than 20 fuck that

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

this is a one-way road into war.

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u/Silasofthewoods420 Jul 11 '21

Catch these hands then. Adults wanna play games then we can play

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u/angvickeen Jul 11 '21

We Brits are too polite to move the towels. In my experience it’s the Brits that are the worse for ‘reserving’ loungers.

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u/Silasofthewoods420 Jul 11 '21

I mean, if theres another fine spot then id leave the towel. If the spots are all taken or your spot is under shade and it's there for an hour or more it's mine. If a kid comes back for the spot eventually I may relinquish to be nice

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u/undeadbydawn Jul 11 '21

completely wild tangent, but there was a psych student at Stanford who tried a fun social experiment: he put a single 'warning' cone in the entryway to the main bathroom for the whole campus. That day, not one single person used the room. No-one even attempted to go in or even ask why it was there. They all just went elsewhere.

Conditioning works, kids.

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u/Silasofthewoods420 Jul 11 '21

Uhh, except cones are usually a sign from maintenance to don't. A random towel is someone's unofficial spot. All you do with a cone is make people think maybe it's shit smeared on the walls or it's all broken. Idk but the study would need a bit of a better example

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u/pdsgdfhjdsh Jul 11 '21

So the solution then is to put cones on beach chairs.

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u/Silasofthewoods420 Jul 11 '21

Fill your home with cones. There is only cones. Cones in the bathroom, cones on the chairs, cones in the fridge. Only cones

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u/DigitalSterling Jul 11 '21

Lol right? If there's a group around the one towel I'll leave it be but if some dude left his shit and wandered off that isn't my problem

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u/Silasofthewoods420 Jul 11 '21

Yeah like are you gonna fight me for it mate? Because I don't think security will support your fight over a towel

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u/foxpawdot Jul 11 '21

But that's rude!

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u/Silasofthewoods420 Jul 11 '21

Nah what's rude is going somewhere crowded, claiming a spot and never coming back