Things I probably shouldn't notice

[ailbhe]

People who pee on the seat, don't clean it up, and leave toilet roll all over the floor, are not old enough to use a public toilet unsupervised. Especially the poor little boy I saw a few weeks ago who was rushed into a cubicle, peed EVERYWHERE, and was rushed out again without washing his hands. OK, his mother was in a hurry. But ew.

Waitstaff often complain online about parents whose children make a typical mess while eating and don't clean it up (um, the parents don't clean it up, I mean). But every time I start cleaning up after Linnea - which is whenever she spills anything - I get stopped by apologetic staff pretty much instantly. I often feel like I've implied they can't do their jobs afterwards, too. What am I supposed to do?

I don't care what you think the little boy did with your shoe (which he did, suspiciously, find in the first place he looked in the changing room, so I personally think he was a practical-joke-playing toerag), it is not appropriate to physically restrain him and shout obscenities at him, nor to threaten him with what you'd do if he didn't "probably" have a gang of mates waiting outside. The appropriate course of action, since you have recovered your property, is to take him to the people in charge of the leisure centre and have him and his gang of antisocial mates banned forever. Off you go. Try not to say "fuck" too much while you're at it.