Entitled parents snap at a hotel employee for stopping their kids from using dangerous fountains as a slide, so he shuts down the pool and kicks them out: ‘That felt very good’

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Cata Holmes • Writer
Oct 1, 2026 6:00 AM EDT

When did 'We're guests here' become an excuse for letting your kids run wild?

Working at a hotel during the summer can totally be a challenge. There are too many people and kids running around, so having a thousand eyes is key to making sure that everything is going well. One employee was doing his job and noticed a couple of kids playing on a big water fountain in the middle of the garden.

This is not only against the rules, but it can be extremely dangerous. If one of the kids got injured because he was playing there, I'm pretty sure that the employee would be blamed. He asked them from a window to stop doing that, but the kids didn't stop. So he went up to them and very politely told them that they shouldn't be doing that, but that they were not in trouble. 

That caused NOTHING, because the kids stuck their tongues out and called him names. They were very disrespectful, and after that they ran away to the pool section, where their parents were. The employee followed them and had a word with the parents and told them that what they did was very dangerous and that they were lucky that none of them got injured.

The parents, who clearly didn't want to attend any babysitting duties during that time, were even more disrespectful and gave him a terrible attitude. They told him he shouldn't be telling their kids what to do and to mind his own business. Also, they demanded respect and more polite behavior since they were guest. What? The employee was actually very clear and not mean at all.

Since he knew that these parents were not going to change their minds and that there was nothing else that he could do, he decided to play his last card. He looked at the time and realized that the pool had to be closed: it was five minutes past its closing time.  He not only closed it, but kicked that whole family out. Needless to say, that must have felt very good.

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  • It's the middle of June and our hotel is flooded with soccer parents and their kids who are a byproduct of their shittiness.
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  • Naturally the parents are all dr_nk and the kids are running around like rabid animals.
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  • We have this beautiful water fountain, it's two floors high and angles downward kind of like a slide. It's very unsafe to treat it like a slide. It's not a slide. I notice three unsupervised kids playing
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  • on the fountain trying to slide down it. I yell to them from the top floor "Hey guys, that's not a slide. Get off of the fountain." They see me and scatter giggling.
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  • I think to myself that I'm going to have to go down there and talk to the kids directly.
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  • I go down to the base of the fountain and I see them run I to a nearby ballroom. I catch them and ever so nicely say "Guys, you aren't in trouble, but I need to
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  • implore to you that you could get seriously injured playing on that fountain." The kids do what kids do and call me some names before running away.
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  • I follow them to our pool and I see the three kids had ran over to their parents. I walk over to their parents and I say "Hey guys, sorry to bother you I caught your kids playing in one of our fountains.
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  • It's very unsafe. When I tried telling your kids this they called me names ran away from me. I just want you to know that if I weren't there your kids could have hurt themselves."
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  • The mom says to me "Well, who are you to tell my kids what to do?" I say "Excuse me? Hey, I wouldn't be here right now if you had control of your kids." The dad chimes in "Hey now, thats uncalled for! We're guests here."
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  • "I say "I'm actually being very polite all things considered. Your kids could get injured playing on that fountain." The mom says "Well that's none of your business now is it?" And then she hand waves me away.
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  • I check my watch and it's 10:05pm the pool closes at 10:00. So I closed the pool down and kicked all the parents And rabid kids out. That felt very good. I
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  • probably would have left the pool for them too. Just goes to show how little being an a hle open gets you.
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  • atleast35 Is there any way that the parents and kids could be kicked out? They deserve to be tossed
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  • DogLogForPresident "Hey now, thats uncalled for! We're guests here." Incorrect. You were guests until you gave me that attitude. You've now been reclassified as trespassers. Gather your things and leave, or the police will be called.
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  • Puzzleheaded-Joke-97 I was in a buildings & grounds dept for 35 years and my first thought was how the hotel could make that fountain safe enough so it would not be a hazard to idiots. Then I recalled how inventive idiots can be!
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  • pakrat1967 You ask the parents who will be responsible for any medical bills when their kids do get injured playing on the fountain. If they say that they will, get it in writing. If they say the hotel would be. Tell them that's what makes it your business.
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  • Jabbles22 "Well that's none of your business now is it?" I highly suspect that she wouldn't feel the same if her kid got hurt.
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  • Head_Razzmatazz7174 "Well, that's none of your business" They would make it your business if their kiddos got hurt while breaking the rules. Then it's all YOUR fault for babysitting their kids while they were drinking by the pool.
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  • forreal_dude I work at a restaurant, and the sports team parents in general are horrendous. So entitled, so annoying, usually a hles. And they model that behavior routinely for their offspring.
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