A woman has hit out at a “rude” holidaymaker who allegedly “attacked” a man with a broken leg over a sunbed dispute. She was so furious she started to “plot revenge”
The tourist is claimed to have started a sunbed dispute (stock image)(Image: morrismedia via Getty Images)
Most people love going away, but something that can get tourists down is when sunbed wars break out at holiday resorts. Unfortunately, it’s a problem some travellers have to deal with when they jet off on holidays to enjoy some time the sun, but one woman was recently left furious after what she witnessed by the pool.
She told her unfortunate travel story on Reddit as she wanted advice on how to deal with such “rude” people. In the post, she even admitted she was hypothetically “plotting ways to get revenge”, even though she said she would never actually take matters into her own hands.
In the post, she claimed a man “attacked” a fellow tourist over a sunbed dispute. It comes after a different hotel was praised for trying to tackle issues surrounding reserving sunbeds.
She wrote: “How do you deal with rude sunbed reservers? I’m on holiday and yesterday I watched a 60ish-year-old man shouting and getting aggressive at a woman and her husband with a broken leg for moving his towel in a prime sunbed location at the hotel.
“Towel man said broken leg man had ‘no d**k’ for needing to use crutches. Towel man shouted that he’d been up to put his towel out before 7am, and this altercation happened at 1.30pm, and he’d not been down all morning to use the sunbed.
“How do you deal with these sorts of people?”
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Naturally, the post got a lot of people talking. In fact dozens shared their thoughts on the matter that appeared to spiral a little out of control.
One said: “I don’t. I actively avoid hotels where I think the clientele will act like this.”
Another added: “Get a member of staff involved. Most hotels have a policy on it now.”
A third replied: “It’s blatant arrogance to reserve a lounger that isn’t used for half of the day. Selfishness at its peak.”
Meanwhile, a fourth commented: “I’d move the towel and go, ‘prove it?’ And turn over and ignore them. There’s not reservations on a sunlounger lol. The only reservation you got is if it is in your room.”
One more also stated: “Sadly, the only option is to pay more for resorts/villas that don’t cater for the kind of people who’ve never been taught emotional regulation.”
In an update, the woman noted she “loved” reading people’s replies. She also admitted she started to come up with a plan to “get revenge”, even though she wouldn’t actually go through with anything.
“We spent the afternoon drinking nearby and making up ways of revenge,” she added. “Which I’d never enact, of course. Our favourite was the idea to place small bits of the buffet meats under his towel when he left to attract a continuous supply of aggressive ants.”
Naturally, it’s not advised anyone do anything like this. She simply chuckled at some of the wild suggestions.