Personal music at pools
 

I am new here, we closed on our house in June and moved all our furniture down but we are not here full time yet. I am down here this week to tie up some loose ends and a little R & R. Today I finally have time to go to the pool and read a good book. After a little while a couple comes in and hooks up their iPod to speakers and plays it loud enough for the whole pool to hear.

Is this the norm at the pools here? I finally left because I couldn't concentrate on my book. Am I unreasonable because I don't want to listen to someone else's music.

Thanks.

I don't care where you are or whether it is a public pool or a private one. That is just inconsiderate of others no matter how you slice it.

I agree.
I would have gone into the rec center and spoken to the attendant.

Wow! Exceptionally rude of them. Which pool?

happened at fishhawk for us couple came with their teens and took over the whole pool with their sound

I thought the family pools, including Fishhawk, had music piped in anyway.

Usually the piped in music is not as loud as a rock concert.

This was at Sanibel, no pool attendant.

As much as I dislike confrontation, this seems to be a case where someone should have gotten up and said something to the offending party. It didn't have to be in a nasty way, just a short explanation that not everybody has the same taste in music nor desires loud music while trying to relax.

Probably the same type of people who play a television loud enough on their lanai that the neighbors hear it with all their doors and windows closed. Some people are just ignorant.

I totally agree with Captain Jon. It is often in the delivery.

Wow, sounds like some have not learned to play well with others. All it takes is you to go over and explain their television on the lanai is disturbing you and it is written in the covenants that noise is not allowed.

nope younger couple visiting with grandkids, it is their vacation, and want to enjoy it their way.... hoping they are only staying a week. so left them to do as they please:(

I think that was the smart thing to do. What's a week.

Which pool? Going for the party! :thumbup: Springdale I hope.

I experienced the same issue a few years back. Someone bought a ghetto blaster for a pool and donated it. The first person to arrive in the morning would turn it on, loud. And it would be on until the last person turned it off at night. I figure you can't fight city hall. I changed pools and found a lovely, quiet one.

Was the ghetto blaster waterproof? I coulda fixed that problem in a heartbeat.

Actually, my friend used that approach and it didn't work. The person felt it was his right to listen to his television on his lanai. And the covenants only state that no noise is allowed after 10:00. If you're the type of person that goes to bed early, and your neighbor is uncaring and uncooperative, you're just out of luck. My friend ended up moving because of the noise.

And it isn't just at night either. I remember playing golf a couple of months ago, and listening to someone's television on a lanai on the golf course which was about 100 yards away from us. The TV was just blasting. I really felt sorry for their next-door neighbors.
Anyways, sorry to hijack this thread.

I guess no music at pools only at squares?

How about in a soft voice," Excuse me. I know you don't mean to bother anyone, but your music is a little loud. Would you mind turning it down or using your ear buds? Thanks so much." Smile

Whatever happened to asking someone politely to stop whatever they are doing to annoy? Maybe they don't realize.

Right on, Cappy!

I grew up in a home full of hard-of-hearing elderly. My husband says my voice can etch glass. I really appreciate it when someone politely whispers in my ear that I'm rockin the room!

If that doesn't work,then the suggestions above are GREAT!

A nocturnal submersion....works for me.

Count me in the majority on this issue.

Permitting boorish behavior- especially behavior that is contrary to the rules that apply to all- to go unchallenged is wrong! All that does is to encourage continued or additional wrong behavior and to empower wrong doers.

Why should someone who is using the area/ a facility/ whatever have to leave to avoid wrong doers? Seemingly, right usually subjugated itself to wrong.

Why should those who do right have to self-inconvenience when faced with wrong? Shouldn't it be the other way around? But it will never be the other way around as long as right stays quiet.

The key is how to challenge the inappropropriate behavior. And by "challenge" I do not mean "confront".

In this instance, I would assess whether it would be better to address the person(s) directly or to go report the matter to onsite staff. Then go do it.

If my action didn't result in change, then I have to decide whether to stay and tolerate the rudeness, or to leave.

We are future Villagers and we have not yet spent time in any of the pools. It will be one of the many pleasures we will enjoy when we move in and I don't want for some one to spoil it by blasting music. Are there NO LOUD MUSIC signs displayed by the pool? Are there pools for visitors and pools for just residents?
Let's think of a remedy before getting into any unwanted confrontations.

Maybe they should have adult pools, family pools, sports pools and not near dead pools.

Or Cess pools.:1rotfl:

Very well said!

Most Villages have two pools. There is a huge choice available. Some people like noise, some like serenity. No need for confrontations. Just experiment until you find the pool that is right for you.

Mom & I had to stop going to our Amelia adult pool because a bunch of loud, foul-mouthed men took over the pool. One guy must have been near- deaf as he was particularly loud. We started going to Mallory pool & what a difference! Until this summer--there's a small group of people with another near-deaf male who are drinkers (beer bellies & conversation). I guess I'm going to have to start wearing earplugs to the pool. :sigh:

Those type of people do not care about explanations from people like you or me who expect some consideration for others. They care only about themselves and their spoiled kids they've taught to step over dead bodies to get or do whatever they darn well please.

To the O.P., no, that is not the norm here. I don't know about the neighborhood pools, but at the sport pools people quickly go to the phone and call Rec Dept. to get things corrected.

Also, to O.P., if you're a golfer you might want to get the country club golf and pool upgrade. The country club pools are quieter and more like a private club pool where it's not a bunch of yahoo's horsing around and being loud, and there is always an adult attendant.

How would you know, without asking? Personally, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Be the good guy and buy your neighbor a pair of TV ears....Problem solved...

Go to the Adult pools and stay away from the family pools where you know kids scream , splash and play....DARN THOSE KIDS >>>>

Hmmm... I did not think that anyone at the rec center has the authority to do anything about it. I suspect that they might just ask politely to stop the offending music, but it would resume once they left the area. I know for a fact that this did happen once at the Sanibel pool.

Sounds like my Bucket Brigade friends from Carnival Cruise Lines have found their way to TV. :faint:

Of course kids splash and play at Family Pools, that is to be expected. I think that the problem is at Adult pools where adults are playing music loudly. I don't think most Adult pools have Rec Centers attached.

Residents are free to use pools in neighboring Villages. In our Village, there are five pools I can easily access by golf cart. Three of the pools are Adult pools. One of the Adult pools is a ghetto-blaster pool, but the "regulars" seem to like it that way, so who am I to change things? That leaves me two quiet pools to enjoy.

Yup... I don't care for the music, so I just go to another pool. No problem for me. If the neighbors at the pool want to hear the loud music then they probably should be able to do it. We should all try to "live and let live".

I'm praying that I live miles from you and your friends.:kiss:

Politely ask them to PLEASE turn off the music or wear headphones. If they refuse, pull out your boombox, pop in your favorite music, (whatever genre they are not listening to will work), and turn yours on to the same level as theirs. Problem solved when they leave or when the attendant tells BOTH of you to turn off your music.
JJ

Your suggestion is certainly not the adult nor appropriate way to handle a situation. I thought you were an attorney. Strange way to mediate.

Are you kidding? I suggest you "Politely ask them to PLEASE turn their music off or use headphones and you say I am not trying to mediate the problem? What is it when I ask them Politely??
and if they refuse I CANNOT play my music at the same level as theirs because that is not the adult or appropriate way to handle it? If I am forced to listen to music I may as well listen to the kind I like.
If if the answer is no music, I am fine with that.
What other middle ground is there?

What is your solution? Let anyone and everyone just take over public places with their rude behavior without being even asked politely to compromise?
I think you are the rude person for personally attacking me instead of offering an alternate solution in your response.
JJ