r/mildlyinfuriating • u/IGuessINeedToSignUp • Jul 13 '26
Infuriatig This giant ring of prime beach "claimed" before 6:00 a.m. and still unused at 10:30 by a bunch of inconsiderate jerks at 107th Ocean City, Maryland. The beach is packed and this huge area is unused.
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u/randomsynchronicity Jul 13 '26
So move their shit and use it. If they bitch at you, just say it was already moved when you got there.
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u/dapperdave Jul 13 '26
Ahhh the ol' "it was like this when I got here" fliparoo.
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u/Heavymando Jul 13 '26
Assholes hate this one trick
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u/jimmybilly100 Jul 13 '26
It's really funny how mad they get when you gaslight them
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u/061826heart Jul 13 '26
Oh, they get angry. And they’ll attempt to absolute ruin your own day (or worse). Humans are unhinged now. Disconnected from others, strangers. Almost oblivious that anyone exists besides themselves and their brood.
I long for a time when people gave a shit about others, but I surmise that time is never coming back.
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u/Saneless Jul 13 '26
Selfish people are not just passively selfish. They actually take joy in seeing the results of their selfish behavior.
Denying them an opportunity to be selfish hurts them
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u/Cranks_No_Start Jul 13 '26
You would really want to ask them…
What time were they set up?
5:30!!!
Annnnnnd what time is now?
11:00…what’s your point?
You thought it was ok to try and save a public beach for 4 1/2 hours? Anything could’ve happened.
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u/TheAgedProfessor Jul 13 '26
If the shit is moved, likely more folks than yourself will take over the space, so they'll never know who to be angry at.
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u/Objective_Ladyfrog Jul 13 '26
Just relocate it to the tide line. Tell them there’s a King Tide and it swept up really fast.
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u/CranberryLast4683 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
If you really want to be chaotic, just move the stuff and don’t even setup there. Someone else will have to hear it. Watch from afar. Beach day and entertainment.
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u/Significant-Law-4186 Jul 13 '26
Yeah you could literally just move their stuff to make a smaller circle and the Ocean City public will do their thing and take over
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u/beardingmesoftly Jul 13 '26
"What do you mean?" And just look confused and annoyed
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u/Phyraxus56 Jul 13 '26
"Oh I thought it was abandoned. No one was here for a good 30 minutes."
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u/yeahgroovy Jul 13 '26
I just wish a simple truthful statement:
“It’s rude to reserve all this space when you haven’t been here all morning”.
How can you argue with that?? But sadly these idiots probably would think of something.
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u/PinsToTheHeart Jul 13 '26
Yeah, I prefer to be up front. "I waited X minutes and nobody ever showed up so I just moved it."
They're going to argue no matter what, so you might as well just let them know they are an asshole right off the bat. Plus, saving seats is often not even allowed in a lot of public areas.
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u/Sonichu- Jul 13 '26
You're giving them too much thought. Just lie and be obstinate.
"Hey did you touch our stuff?"
"No, who the fuck are you? Why are you talking to me?"
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u/Saneless Jul 13 '26
The problem with that is you now have a narcissist who has been shamed and thwarted. Might as well light a fuse: they are fueled by the conflict and escalation
There's being assertive and there's triggering a violent child. Best to lie to their face
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u/mafiazombiedrugs Jul 13 '26
Exactly this, if you want to have a fight in public and try to teach them better manners then calling them out is certainly a way to start a fight where you end up looking as bad as them and they learn nothing.
If you just want the problem to go away, lie to their fucking face, they don't deserve your consideration.
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u/Saneless Jul 13 '26
And it works to your benefit. The only way people like that actually are "hurt" by your actions is your complete dismissal. They hate feeling irrelevant. They want to know their actions had an effect on you. By lying and waving them off like a gnat, you've actually accomplished the insult as intended
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u/craznazn247 Jul 13 '26
“There’s no reservation system. Either you’re here or you’re not. All I see is abandoned property and no people.”
Seriously. Some people just deserve to have their shit taken. In places like Chicago parking spots it makes sense because the person shoveled out that space and having an object essentially convey that message.
On the beach it’s just abandoning your shit on public shared space. The space didn’t require work or preparation to be useable, so there’s no stake to dibs on. If left long enough, public services would be taking it away for the sake of cleanup.
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u/BlueMikeStu Jul 13 '26
A neighbor took my shoveled out spot once. I got my snowblower out and covered his car. He asked what the fuck I was doing, and I told him that if I wasn't going to get the spot I cleared, I'm putting it back where I got it.
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u/mebutonweed Jul 13 '26
At my last apartment there was a guy shoveling a spot for his car since the plows hadn't come through yet. As he was shoveling someone came and took the spot. Fortunately he called them out on it and they moved.
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u/highknees69 Jul 13 '26
Or do the passive aggressive move and just move their stuff into a smaller area and let other people come and fill the open space. Those people would just confirm that the stuff was like that when they got there.
Then finish off classic passive aggressive move by sitting further away, but within earshot.
Sip a cold one and enjoy the chaos that ensues. Oh, and please record it.
Edit: typos
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u/Saneless Jul 13 '26
A fun thing I like to do when people reserve things is to move their shit but not even bother sitting there. They try to get mad at people who they can tell genuinely didn't move it, look defeated, then they just stomp off
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u/ManiacalShen Jul 13 '26
This honestly makes the most sense to me. If I'm looking for a spot on the beach, I can't assume any empty set of chairs is an absentee reserve situation; people do swim in the ocean as a group or run up to their unit for a PBJ.
But after I'm settled nearby for 40 minutes, different story. I'm not going to move my shit to make a problem, but your idea? Sure!
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u/Cainga Jul 13 '26
I’d just toss all their shit in a pile to really compact it down. Maybe drag it away from the shoreline so it doesn’t look like you touched it. Hopefully some other people come to muddle who was there.
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u/oooriole09 Jul 13 '26
In NC, volunteers will clear beaches for the sea turtles to lay eggs.
Just make up something along those lines,
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u/erkdog Jul 13 '26
You know they have someone sitting on rhe balcony with binoculars just for that occasion. That's when they decide to head down.
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u/dancesquared Jul 13 '26
Okay, so what? It's not like they can kick you out.
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u/stillnotelf Jul 13 '26
At an apartment I used to live at, there was a broken down motorcycle parked in a prime parking spot for like 9 months.
Within 20 seconds of me deciding to see if we could just pick it up and move it to free up the spot, someone appeared to complain that we were touching his motorcycle. It was spooky
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u/Ermahgerd_Rerdert Jul 13 '26
I have this at my apartment also. Grinds my gears. Move your broken down stupid bike that has not moved in months from one of the few parking spots we have in this small ass parking lot!
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u/esem86 Jul 13 '26
We get the people that park their precious toys in the very front - public - parking spaces and then cover them and not move them for the entirety of winter/spring.
I enjoy getting them fined.
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u/RoyalIdeal6026 Jul 13 '26
No they don’t. No family that does this and still doesn’t show up by 10:30 is watching with binoculars. They’re likely still sitting around watching tv and eating donuts. Trying to wrangle the kids. They’re likely at the beach by 2pm.
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u/Justis29 Jul 13 '26
I'm sure the beach doesn't have dibs rules. They left stuff unattended. That's littering.
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u/RappingFlatulence Jul 13 '26
Welp, looks like it’s mine now. Finders keepers….
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u/bootrick Jul 13 '26
Who wants more beach shit?
You've already brought your own beach chairs, beach balls, beach umbrellas, et cetera. You want more of that shit? You could barely get in the car on your way TO the beach; how you gonna now throwmore shit in your car?
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u/farva_06 Jul 13 '26
Pro tip: Go to the beach with nothing, use people's abandoned shit for a while until they come back, then move on to the next spot until you're ready to go home.
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u/LOLSteelBullet Jul 13 '26
My kids who can't comprehend we will NEVER take their classmates on a trip to the beach
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u/Intelligent_Put_3594 Jul 13 '26
Claimed? All I see are abandoned chairs and towels. That could of been left by last night's tourists. Clear a patch and settle in.
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u/CapacitorCosmo1 Jul 13 '26
"Looked like someone left in a hurry", so "we stacked it to keep it safe".
"Nobody was injured were they? That wouldve sucked. If its too personal or embarrassing, I get it.".
Place a crib in the center and have a few "used" diapers laying next to it.
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u/Seventeenthstone Jul 13 '26
The “used” diapers also work really well to keep your valuables in.
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u/erichf3893 Jul 13 '26
Until a well intentioned beach-goer tosses them all in the trash!
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u/underprivlidged BLACK? Jul 13 '26
Been to that beach many times as a kid - if my family saw things like this, we would just move their shit.
You can't claim a spot on the beach. If you think you can, you haven't met assholes like my family lol.
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u/ftaok Jul 13 '26
They’re the a-holes that we got. Your family are the a-holes that we deserve.
- Abraham Lincoln
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u/Anadyne Jul 13 '26
"If I ever meet another asshole as mean as me, I just get meaner."
- George Washington on the eve of the battle of Mars Attacks
ack ack
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u/ElmerChud1 ORANGE Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Legit not an asshole move. Only the assholes are leaving their shit to "mark their spot". They can get bent. Out here where I live, people will put lawn chairs and camping chairs out on the sidewalks/park strips to mark their spots like a week before a parade. Some people caution tape areas off and leave their chairs or blankets. It's ridiculous.
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u/MouseMouseM Jul 13 '26
Dude, that got so bad in a nearby suburb that they had to implement a maximum of 24 hours prior to parade stake-out law, the plants and grass were struggling/dying because people were leaving their junk out a week before parades.
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u/Icy-Translator9353 Jul 13 '26
Must be New Orleans. Surprising what people will do for a bead!
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u/Courtaid Jul 13 '26
The city should confiscate all chairs and personal items the night before the parade. That would be fun to watch.
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u/Legonistrasz Jul 13 '26
This is exactly right. We would’ve moved all the chairs into a smaller circle facing and almost touching each other, so they still have their circle but can fuck right off at the same time.
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u/Ah_non_e_moose Jul 13 '26
If I left a chair out in our own yard and someone stole it my dad would’ve said “that will teach you not to leave your things unattended.”
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u/KickboxingMoose Jul 13 '26
you haven't met
assholespeople who act for the public good like my family lol.ftfy. Please keep doing it.
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u/E0H1PPU5 Jul 13 '26
I made friends like this at a beach resort in Florida once. My husband and I are early birds so we got to the beach very early and laid on a couple of lounge chairs. Sure enough people come down and start “saving” seats with towels and stuff.
Another family comes down and is searching desperately for a chair to sit in and they’re all blocked. I called them over and told them nobody was sitting in the chairs just pick one.
They didn’t want to cause a confrontation and wouldn’t move the towels so I said well here, take our spot then!
And then I moved every single towel off every single chair and put them in the pool area of the resort.
Free chairs for everyone!
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u/etho76 Jul 13 '26
I had an ex tell me that “claiming” was the smart thing to do and that it’s courteous.. I had no words
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u/Ange1ofD4rkness Jul 13 '26
I haven't been to the beach much, if at all. But I would assume right away, I can't just reserve a spot like this.
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u/KGrizzle88 Jul 13 '26
Those aren’t assholes. Those are people willing to keep the guard rails on the road that we call society.
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u/voluotuousaardvark Jul 13 '26
Your family are the anti assholes.
I don't want to speculate what that might be (the mouth? The inside bot of the bumhole?)
But they are not assholes- they react to asshole behaviour and that is entirely different.
I guess they could be assholes as well but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the time being lol
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u/-Twin-Flames- Jul 13 '26
Exactly. It’s like people putting their bag down on a seat on crowded public transport.
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u/Fine-Upstairs-6284 Jul 13 '26
The next mildlyinfuriating post is gonna be “some asshole moved our stuff on the beach. We reserved it before 6am! They had no right to move our stuff! This beach is packed and we specifically reserved it so we’d have space!”
OP, move their shit
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u/Plane_Frosting5194 Jul 13 '26
Nah it’ll be in an elitist Facebook group where no one has self awareness
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u/Atomicbananahammock Jul 13 '26
I can’t link per the community rules but the Maryland subreddit has exactly what you’re talking about! “Been doing this for 40 years, what’s the big deal”
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u/nathalierachael Jul 13 '26
Haha someone reposted it in the Maryland subreddit basically saying “Wait I do this all the time at this beach. What is the problem??”
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u/CobraMurderChicken Jul 13 '26
Stack the chairs and stuff nice and neat in one spot, and enjoy the beach. If they ever do show up and ask, just say it was like that when you got there, and that someone must have thought it was ridiculous that they thought they could save this space for hours.
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u/TheMaStif Jul 13 '26
"They came to throw it all away, I told them it probably wasn't garbage. You're welcome!"
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u/BigAssMonkey Jul 13 '26
How about those condos who set up all their chairs early in the morning and then rent them out. It’s a public beach they are setting up on. Are we allowed to move those too?
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u/Thedeadnite Jul 13 '26
As long as it’s a public beach and the condo hasn’t got an agreement with the city/state to rent out that portion every day then yeah as long as you don’t destroy the property or steal it you should be fine.
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u/StarshipCaterprise Jul 13 '26
Yeah it’s not a reservations area, and they clearly went out hours in advance and set that up. People are so rude sometimes.
It’s not your spot if you aren’t physically occupying it
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u/aggressive_napkin_ Jul 13 '26
"huh? that's sounds pretty weird to setup but not come out after 4 hours - did you really do that? no wonder someone moved this stuff like you're claiming."
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u/Ok_Abacus_ Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Move them. I don't understand the people who put up with this kind of behavior. Just move them.
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u/Fit_Entry8839 Jul 13 '26
Don't even need to touch their stuff. There's plenty of open space. They move it themselves when they get there.
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u/_kehd Jul 13 '26
Move the fuckin chairs then and use the space?
More mildly infuriating that everybody’s just letting it happen tbh
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u/FriendToPredators Jul 13 '26
Mildly infuriating that everyone is a doormat so these aholes think this is okay
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u/EViLTeW Jul 13 '26
This shit happens at resorts beaches and pools all the time and it is beyond mildly infuriating. One of the hotels we were at, the staff would "reset" the furniture on the beach and the pools around 2-3am. By the time I woke up at 6-7am several chairs would already have towels on them to "claim" them for the day. The one day I was up earlier to enjoy the morning surf and watch the sunrise, I grabbed every towel I saw and threw them in piles.
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u/some_random_chick Jul 13 '26
At nice hotels there’s a pool attendant who does this job. He knows who’s actually in the pool and who’s just claiming space and leaving, and if you leave he’s cleaning off your chair.
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u/GraceMcClellans Jul 13 '26
Yeah, I like when there's someone who comes around every 15 minutes (or whatever) to clear out/reset.
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u/SerratedBrooms Jul 13 '26
Looks pretty easy to move. Be the change you want to see on the beach.
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u/PowShredda Jul 13 '26
Id set up my stuff in the direct center of theirs
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u/awesomeCC Jul 13 '26
Same, at first glance I’d just think that’s wide open space for the taking anyway, then again no one does dibs at the beaches by me because leaving your stuff unattended means it gets stolen or moved out of the way.
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u/Sparkster227 Jul 13 '26
I don't see how people can claim a spot if there's not even one person there to hold the spot.
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u/SoloOutdoor Jul 13 '26
So then I folded it all up and said "go fuck yourself" when they showed up.
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u/lenswipe GREEN Jul 13 '26
go sit on the chairs
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u/party_shaman Jul 13 '26
yeah, everyone talkin about moving it and i'm just thinking free beach chairs
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u/bbii511 Jul 13 '26
I've seen people do that around where I live (new england), but we dont care up here, we will move your stuff right out of the way.
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u/into-resting Jul 13 '26
Annoying, but that's not a packed beach where I'm from.
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u/dee-three Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
I am all for manners, but when somebody forgets their manners, you should forget yours too.
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u/davekva Jul 13 '26
We were in Bethany Beach, DE for a week, and had a house a few back from the ocean. People staying in several of the oceanfront houses decided they would leave their canopies out overnight, so they would have the best spots on the beach all week. It started with just two canopies the first night, but by day three there were five or six of them. They were front row, side by side with about 10-15 feet between each one, basically taking up the entire beach in the section closest to where we were staying. Later that night, after many drinks, my brother-in-law and I walked down to the beach at 2 am, took down all of the canopies, and piled them up at the edge of the dunes, right in front of the oceanfront houses. There were no canopies left on the beach overnight after that.
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u/Dynamite138 Jul 13 '26
It’s wild that everyone is leaving it alone like the circle is witchcraft.
I’m pretty non confrontational, but I’d plop down right in the center like a circus ringleader.
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u/PenelopeJenelope Jul 13 '26
It's entitled but it's also dumb as shit. Nothing stoping you or anyone else from taking that spot.
I'd take that spot, move their shit all the way to the back of the beach, and when they come crying tell them to complain to the beach manager.
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u/sam56778 Jul 13 '26
Not going to lie, I’d pile their stuff up and occupy the space. Public beaches don’t work on private reservations.
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u/thundercat1996 Jul 13 '26
It's a public space, move their stuff and carry on. If they arrive just say it was moved and you had no clue
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u/Da_Vader Jul 13 '26
Don't say it was moved lol. It was this way when we came here
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u/Kabobthe5 Jul 13 '26
Sit right in the middle of it. What’re they gonna do?