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I used to swim laps regularly. At the lap pool there were various bits of equipment for general use, kickboard/flippers/floats and such. Nobody ever seemed to
by sandworm101 3y ago
I used to swim laps regularly. At the lap pool there were various bits of equipment for general use, kickboard/flippers/floats and such. Nobody ever seemed to return them to the racks. They instead massed into a pile at the end of the lanes. So when I was done my routine I regularly pickup them all up, sometime making a thing of how many kickboards I could carry at once. About 50% of the time some other swimmer would say "By pickup those up you are taking a job away from a lifeguard." Entitled pricks. Some people just don't care about the world around them, to the point that they believe their laziness literally supports other people.
- automatic6131 3y ago>About 50% of the time some other swimmer would say "By pickup those up you are taking a job away from a lifeguard." Entitled pricks. Didn't they realize Gary Oldman was the villain in Fifth Element?
- HideousKojima 3y agoYou'll see a similar attitude with shopping carts, "it's the cart collector's job to get those" as if that somehow kept the carts from blocking parking spots and walkways in the 30-90 minutes it takes that cart collector guy to come out and get them. My typical response is "so do you piss all over the toilet seat and leave it there because it's the janitor's job to come clean it up?"
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoWhat about plastic recycling and "don't throw this in the garbage!" items like batteries? My stance on those is that offloading it to the consumer is shitty and ineffective. Either have the garbage collection facility handle that or design products that safely biodegrade. An average person shouldn't be asked to do work to enable irresponsible manufacturing choices or underfunded waste management.
- crtasm 3y agoSome councils here will collect batteries left in a bag on top of the rubbish bin, but where I live they need taking to a collection point in a shop 5mins away. Even if we had to take them further I wouldn't think of that as "work". More should be done to encourage people to use recharagble batteries though, they save so much money on top of all the other benefits.
- arp242 3y agoAfter I moved to the UK I had a bit of a culture shock moment about this with my girlfriend; she just left the cart out on the parking lot. "wtf are doing?!"; "oh, someone will come and tidy it, everyone leaves it out". She is a very kind and considerate person.
- sandworm101 3y agoGiven the per-minute parking regs sometimes seen in the UK, this might be a rational approach.
- arp242 3y agoNah, just free parking at Tesco and Sainsbury's. I can't recall ever paying for parking at stores like that.
- sanitycheck 3y agoThis isn't normal, everybody puts them back - especially since the "slot in £1 to unchain" system became normal. Just FYI.
- arp242 3y agoWell this was actually quite a long time ago, and it's really "then-girlfriend" – it's just that "girlfriend" reads better and it doesn't really matter. Didn't have to insert any money (which I specifically recall because it surprised me). But whether you or I consider it "normal" isn't really important, she considered it "normal", and I can only assume that's because when she grew up everyone was doing it and it was "normal".
- richie_adler 3y agoThey probably do.
- crtasm 3y ago...they didn't think it best the lifeguard could concentrate on guarding lives? Astounding.
- sandworm101 3y agoWell, drowning isn't much of a lifeguard's day. A far bigger threat is slip-and-falls, old people breaking hips and kids breaking arms on wet pool decks. That loose equipment on the ground is a safety hazard, well within their purview to address, preferably by admonishing those responsible for creating the hazard.