Just a little bit annoying!

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So this morning we all decided to go for a swim at the outdoor pool - not many chances left as they will close at the weekend. Had a lovely time, even though it was a bit chilly. As they are running a booking system at ten-minute intervals, and it isn’t very busy, for our last ten minutes there was only us plus another woman and a boy in there. When time came to get out, the girls and I went to shower and change. The changing rooms are quite conventional, divided into ladies and gents rooms, and the ladies (presumably also the gents) has a largish open central area with benches and lockers surrounded by six cubicles. We showered and were getting changed in the central part, since there was no-one else there and it was a bit more convenient than the three of us squeezing into one cubicle, or having different ones but having to constantly pass towels, clothes etc back and forth as we were sharing one big bag. But we were just dressing when two other women arrived, one with one boy aged around 6 and the other with two boys of about 5 and 7. Then the other woman also came in from the pool with her boy. Now I understand that of course parents/carers are going to be taking their children swimming, and that obviously the adult may not be the same gender as the child, but still I didn’t really expect to be surrounded by four smallish boys at the same time. But that wasn’t what I was annoyed about - it was the fact that one of the women left the boy in her charge out in the central changing area watching all the rest of us, while she went into a cubicle to get changed in private! Am I being unreasonable to find that just a little bit irritating? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2021.