I'm Sorry. There's Nothing We Can Do About It.

"There's nothing we can do about it." How many times have you heard that? Our kids belong to a swim team. We have day-long meets on weekends. We basically camp out at our local facility (water/rec center). Shades tents are erected everywhere around the pool. Each time we set up tents, we are on lawns that are super saturated with water from over sprinkling. It turns into mud. It gets everyone's feet filthy. Mud splatters end up up our legs. Then, the kids go jump in the pool with filthy legs. Must be great for their filtration system. Each time this occurs, different people give feedback to the facility that they are over-watering and it's hurting their lawn and their pool and maybe they could talk to their facilities manager and try to change the watering system to cut it back to help everyone. Win-win, right? Apparently not. The final decision from the facility is, "So sorry. We can't do anything about it." Really? Because turning off a faucet seems pretty easy to me. Ok, maybe it's more than that. Maybe it's a timer. Still, you really can't do anything about it? And of course, you can't vent on the person sharing the information, it's not their fault, of course, it never is. And of course, they have no power to do anything. I'm tired of standing in front of some nameless representative for any entity who's only job seems to be to tell you they can't do anything about it and they can't get you to someone that can do something about it. It's time to rise up and start turning off faucets every chance we get.