Let the snark begin...
Some days it is all I can do to contain my inner parent. And not the happy fun one - the one that scolds you for not following the rules and deliberately flaunting authority. Not that some people couldn't do with a good swat to the behind.
Sigh. Some rules are made to be broken and some rules are just silly, but rules are rules and more than a few are put in place for your safety and the safety of those around you. Oh, and also so the owners of the place won't get sued.
Case in point: pool rules, specifically for an apartment complex. In very large black letters, the rules are posted so most people (if you're legally blind, you're excused) can read them. Most people blithely ignore said rules, until and unless someone else in the pool area is bothering them. Our pool has fourteen rules, the most prominent of which is that no children allowed without a monitoring adult. Fair enough. No diving. Eh, that one is kind of annoying but since there is no lifeguard, okay. No domestic animals in the pool area. Ding ding ding number one for some of my neighbors who decided to bring their golden retriever along. To be fair to them, they were trying to make sure he just laid down, but this was obviously a young dog and didn't care to lay down and stay out of the way -- he wanted to PLAY and didn't understand why his people wouldn't let him romp. Moving along - no horseplay. Yeah, like that one ever gets followed, but amazingly enough people were actually polite enough to keep the horseplay to their own small groups in the pool. No food or drink in the pool area. Ding ding ding number two for THE SAME FOLKS. They started off well enough, with the drinks off to the side on a table. In pitchers, which generally means alcohol (oh yeah, another pool rule - no alcohol inside the fences, and anyone seen to be under the influence will be removed at management's discretion). Soon enough, this changed to actually having glasses in the pool. Moving along again - no glass containers in the pool area. This is actually a really good rule to have, as most glass containers these days contain...alchohol. See above rules. Ding ding ding number three for the same group of people.
Okay, I am not a heartless wench who would disallow all fun. I like a pool party myself, but even at a private pool party some of those rules would hold, if only because it is a pain in the derriere to clean detritus and human/animal by-products out of the filters and off the walks around the pool, and no-one has to be concerned about someone knocking over glass on the sidewalk and causing problems for all the bare-footed people. Take the party to the grassy picnic area outside the pool fence -- that is what it is there for. The poor doggie could have had shade not five feet from where his owners were sitting, and not be trying to topple the table to which he was tied. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel, and it only takes one irresponsible action to close the pool for the weekend.
Snark snark snark. Today it is a good day for the world that I am not in charge.
Sigh. Some rules are made to be broken and some rules are just silly, but rules are rules and more than a few are put in place for your safety and the safety of those around you. Oh, and also so the owners of the place won't get sued.
Case in point: pool rules, specifically for an apartment complex. In very large black letters, the rules are posted so most people (if you're legally blind, you're excused) can read them. Most people blithely ignore said rules, until and unless someone else in the pool area is bothering them. Our pool has fourteen rules, the most prominent of which is that no children allowed without a monitoring adult. Fair enough. No diving. Eh, that one is kind of annoying but since there is no lifeguard, okay. No domestic animals in the pool area. Ding ding ding number one for some of my neighbors who decided to bring their golden retriever along. To be fair to them, they were trying to make sure he just laid down, but this was obviously a young dog and didn't care to lay down and stay out of the way -- he wanted to PLAY and didn't understand why his people wouldn't let him romp. Moving along - no horseplay. Yeah, like that one ever gets followed, but amazingly enough people were actually polite enough to keep the horseplay to their own small groups in the pool. No food or drink in the pool area. Ding ding ding number two for THE SAME FOLKS. They started off well enough, with the drinks off to the side on a table. In pitchers, which generally means alcohol (oh yeah, another pool rule - no alcohol inside the fences, and anyone seen to be under the influence will be removed at management's discretion). Soon enough, this changed to actually having glasses in the pool. Moving along again - no glass containers in the pool area. This is actually a really good rule to have, as most glass containers these days contain...alchohol. See above rules. Ding ding ding number three for the same group of people.
Okay, I am not a heartless wench who would disallow all fun. I like a pool party myself, but even at a private pool party some of those rules would hold, if only because it is a pain in the derriere to clean detritus and human/animal by-products out of the filters and off the walks around the pool, and no-one has to be concerned about someone knocking over glass on the sidewalk and causing problems for all the bare-footed people. Take the party to the grassy picnic area outside the pool fence -- that is what it is there for. The poor doggie could have had shade not five feet from where his owners were sitting, and not be trying to topple the table to which he was tied. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel, and it only takes one irresponsible action to close the pool for the weekend.
Snark snark snark. Today it is a good day for the world that I am not in charge.
posted by Cyndilou :) | 5:26 PM
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