The swimming pool for my children’s swimming lessons have a hallway to enter a dressing room with two doors connected to another hallway which lead to the showers and then the swimming pool.
You enter the first hallway, close both doors to dress, you exit the second door and walk the second hallway to the swimming pool with the showers dividing the two.
All children walk on bare feet in the second hallway and all people escorting the children to the pools are required to use a blue cover on their shoes, use bath slippers or take their shoes off after exiting the dressing rooms to keep it hygienic.
I saw someone with their shoes walking in the second hallway going to the showers, slightly touched her arm and whispered “did you know you can’t be here with shoes?”
She immediately reacted with “you don’t ever touch me.”
This made me respond that she still could have gotten the covers.
Miss coverless: “What if I don’t have them with me?”
Me: “then you can buy new ones at the reception”
Miss coverless: “you don’t toch me and I am waiting here for my daughter.”
Me: “then you could stand closer to the lockers and be where it is dry.”
Miss coverless: “I am going to stand where she can see me.”
I was getting furiously with both of us saying the words very heated and started physically blocking her from walking any further into the showers. (Arms length “physically”. Not going to touch her again…) but she kept walking to the showers and arguing with me with me repeating that she could at least stand somewhere dry or take her shoes off.
As soon as she was almost inside the showers, I walked away and got an employee.
He followed me and we saw her putting on the covers on her shoes. That made me say “so you did have them?!”
Miss now half covered: “I borrowed them from someone!” While walking with one shoe uncovered in the shower.
Me: “you are still walking towards the showers. Just put them on.”
A bystander to me: “you can stop now. That is what the employee is for.”
The last thing I said was: “that is why I went to get them.” And I left.
But that last line from the bystander got me doubting my actions.
Was I really an asshole or did I encounter one?
Good lord. YTA.
It is not your responsibility to enforce the rules of the facility especially in such an aggressive manner. The bystander was dead on – you get an employee or ignore it. Shoes is not a safety issue as much as you make it out to be.