The deck-chair hogs There is nothing more maddening than walking out to the pool deck of a cruise ship and finding every single lounge chair occupied by … a single flipflop. Or a towel. Or a cheap paperback. But this is exactly what you’ll find on many big, mass-market cruise ships on sea days. Passengers will wake up early, head up to the pool, drop something on a chair to “claim it,” and then head back to bed. Sometimes they won’t show back up to “their” chair for hours
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No way. Any normal person needing a deck chair that’s occupied by a flip-flop will simply remove the flip-flop and sit down.
I encountered the “dibs” phenomena at a concert. I moved empty soda containers from a couple of seats ( a huge block of chairs had them). About 30 minutes later someone came up to me and declared, “Hey, you’re in our seats!”
“I don’t think so” I replied.
“We were here first and reserved them” he responded.
“How did you do that?”
“By putting something on the chairs”
“Oh, that. Here all this time I was thinking that you were just careless when all along you were being rude. Have a nice day!”