Next morning I set off for a morning swim at 9am, the opening time of the pool. Every chair was covered by a beach towel and not a person in sight. I left my towel on the floor, in a heap, and enjoyed the swim.
I returned to the pool at four in the afternoon. The pool was a sea of multi-coloured inflatable plastic and the unwary swimmer risked death from squashing by one of the large male teenagers who kept jumping in and lobbing balls about. Half the chairs were still occupied by ownerless beach towels.
This was the pattern of the week - I never got up early enough to see who was climbing over the walls of the pool and putting the towels out.
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