What is so horrible about strollers on the upper deck of the Maplewood pool?

I can't be the only person who has gone to the upper deck time be near my older child using the water slide and diving tank with a baby or toddler napping in a stroller (which is loaded with all of our worldly possessions) Then the teenage lifeguards say you have to collapse it,which means naptime is over and I'm all like "I wish upon you plagues of colicky sleepless babies and high needs toddlers!"

I feel your frustration and have been there;

Never got around to asking but I wonder if the strollers clog the walkways for lifeguards running to help swimmers in distress. Or maybe worried that the child-filled strollers would roll into pool. Not sure.

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ms_cooper said:
I feel your frustration and have been there;
Never got around to asking but I wonder if the strollers clog the walkways for lifeguards running to help swimmers in distress. Or maybe worried that the child-filled strollers would roll into pool. Not sure.

I would guess it had something to do with these two scenarios

Or a crowded deck and lots of bare toes. But I think small babes in wheeled devices that might not be well supervised next to deep water is the real danger.

Spatula_City said:
I can't be the only person who has gone to the upper deck time be near my older child using the water slide and diving tank with a baby or toddler napping in a stroller (which is loaded with all of our worldly possessions) Then the teenage lifeguards say you have to collapse it,which means naptime is over and I'm all like "I wish upon you plagues of colicky sleepless babies and high needs toddlers!"

Did you try to have a civilized conversation with the management about your question? If you didn't then your thread title is as entitled as it sounds. If you did, what did the powers that be who are aware of safety and liability issues better than us, say?

Thanks for any information "Spatula City".

Signed,

Wendy Lauter

They probably don't want any kids to take...

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an upper decker

NizhoniGrrrl said:
Or a crowded deck and lots of bare toes. But I think small babes in wheeled devices that might not be well supervised next to deep water is the real danger.

This is what was explained to me when I was taking my babies to the pool. I always just took the car seat part with me up to my seat near the training pool to keep an eye on big sister.

RobB said:
They probably don't want any kids to take...
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an upper decker

YEEEAAAAHHHHHH!!

ridski said:

RobB said:
They probably don't want any kids to take...
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an upper decker

YEEEAAAAHHHHHH!!

This made my day, thank you both.

Believe the rationale is that strollers can roll into the pool and trap a child inside.

https://youtu.be/TPxiXGr9nFM

NizhoniGrrrl said:
But I think small babes in wheeled devices that might not be well supervised next to deep water is the real danger.

This always seemed pretty obvious to me. The rule did strike me as odd at first, but then thought about it a few seconds and made perfect sense.

I know a young lifeguard at the SO Pool, who saved a toddler when his Mom innocently turned around for just a moment and did not see the child fall in. Accidents do happen.

When I'm given an order by someone in charge of something like a pool or diving area or schooner, my first inclination is to simply do what they say and find out the reason later. When I was younger I would bristle and contest things immediately, make a bit of a scene even, but having learned how often I have been wrong in the past, I prefer the more cautious route now.