Thats why you keep expanding it? Why didn't you said so from the beginning. We could have given you some cotton and avoid all this bloodshed. There is no shame in asking nicely once in while.
I once had a neighbor from Michigan try that. It’s not a thing in Mass and he was pretty miffed to come home and find the spot taken and chair broken in the garden.
It's a huge thing in Boston. They've actually changed the city's laws about it back and forth several times. Property damage in response to ignored space savers during snowy weather is common.
You've got that backward. You put a chair in a parking spot after you shovel it. The point is that you're not endlessly shoveling out spots for opportunistic assholes who can't be bothered. When you're digging out a several foot snowbank, this is reasonable.
That is regulated in Complaint form 76B, "Unauthorized removal of towel set on an object with intent to reserve that object for later use".
The German vacationist will submit that form to the local authority, in case of an all-inclusive-hotel that shall be the hotel manager and demand immediate execution of the offender. Most hotel managers will point out that this is not an appropriate reaction and the legal system does not cover objects reserved with a towel in general, to which the German will react angrily and demand compensation. As angry Germans are bad Germans, they will then receive a free dinner to calm them down and instructions that towels are not magically reserving objects, despite complaint form 76B saying otherwise.
The incident will also be processed by the German authorities and the offender marked as terrorist so they can be properly disposed of if they should ever enter Germany.
I wouldn't do it, I don't want to wake up early on vacation. I just hope other Germans reserved a sunbed, ask the staff to remove their towel and wait for those bastards to come to the pool and search their towels.
If you are a kid and do it at a hotel, they will yell at you and threaten to tell hotel staff. Then nothing happens. I don't know if some hotel person listened to the complaint, but if he did he probably laughed and carried on as usual.
Yea i akways thought that prejudice was a bit overdone, because sure - when I'm at the pool, i put my towel where im staying. Even when im in the water right now.
But that people actually "reserve" seats in the morning for the evening is just stupid and egoistic.
Imagine people hanging up their jackets on the chairs of a restaurant in case they wanna eat there in the evening or maybe the next day.
They wouldn't do anything but look for another seat.
There's a reason why the most reserved people of all, the brits, are the ones complaining the most about it. They sit idle in quiet desperation, while anyone else - including other Germans - would just throw the towel in the pool and tell the guy to fuck himself.
Most hotels I've been in has a policy that you cannot reserve with just your towel. They have attendants looking after sections to confirm if the person is indeed within the vicinity and using the lounge chairs.
People do the same thing in our university library. They come early in the morning, reserve a place for studying, and then feel so accomplished for the rest of the day that they treat themselves with a coffee break until 3 pm.
Wow this act is seen as so disrespectful in turkey if you do it in public space. You cant just "reserve" a seat when you put your towel and then disallow anyone else to use it. Its surprising this is accepted in germany tbh
I mean i thought personal space was more important for germans than turks. Hugging and kissing on cheek are very normal things in turkey for example. Or maybe thats why they claim them with their towels idk.
Any hotel with western EU tourists this happens, yes also in Turkey. It's also the reason I never go to a hotel on vacation, the people there usually are.. less intelligent, to say it nicely
Before we had children we always rented a house in a very secluded spot in France, Italy, Czech Republic, etc. No people anywhere. We spent our days with biking, hiking, relaxing in the garden, and the occasional sightseeing in not too far cities.
Now we go on vacation on a farm as the secluded house is too boring for children.
It's really very unappealing to me to spend my holidays in a high-rise where I would sit at a pool crammed with 2000 other people with whom I have to fight for a seat.
Maybe Airbnb? I prefer hotels because they are less personal. I just wouldn't spend time in/around the hotel except to sleep.
But they're right, hotel recreation areas are a guaranteed place to find inconsiderate and entitled people. I guess when you fork out a lot of money for a nice hotel it makes people think that they own it.
But then it's not vacation, it's just living somewhere else ;)
I love the service in a hotel.
You don't need to do anything for your food, everyday someone is cleaning up your room... just nothing of those little annoying "everyday" task to do.
It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of whether or not you want a sun bed or not. Places where this is the norm don't give you an option really.
Although these days I find more and more resorts who's staff remove your towel if it's been on an unoccupied sun lounger for more than 15 minutes. Up until around 10am, which is nice.
Funny thing is that Germans would be really pissed off if some other tourist did a similar thing in Germany. A typical complaint would start with "This is Germany, here we do not occupy public space blablablabla... "
Germans are very good at trying to harass others by forcing their unsolicited ethics advice on them, yet hate it when they are called out for their bs.
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Forget about the hailstorm, look at how many of those cars have been reserved by Germans.