Why Is Towel Important Essay

Sitting in up in the chair, I slowly scan the pool, while sweat drips down my face. Young kids are running around, screaming to each other from across the pool. As soon as I hear pitter-patter of their footsteps I immediately, without thinking, yell, “walk please!” in my kind but firm “lifeguard” voice. From the corner of my eye, I see a young mom strolling toward the towel rack, dressed in her designer cover-up and oversized sunglasses. Just from the look of it, I can tell exactly what she is about to do. Please don’t do it, please don’t do it. Please don’t take way more towels than necessary. Those towels have spent an hour in the washer, fifty-five minutes in the dryer, then about fifteen minutes getting neatly folded and stacked on the rack. Just like I predicted, the mom takes a whole stack of neaty-folded, still warm towels, for her two toddlers. Are you kidding?! You have two kids which means two towels, not six. I spent two whole hours washing and drying those only to have them barely used then tossed …show more content…
Us lifeguards spend hours washing, drying, folding, and then expertly stacking them on the towel rack. Those moms that think five towels are necessary for their singular three-year-old child are ridiculous. One towel is more than sufficient for drying your kid. Even on hot days, when the towels are definitely not needed for warmth, I see seven-year-olds with one towel wrapped around their waist, one on their arms, then a third on their head. Why is this necessary?! The sun is so hot they could dry off just basking in the heat for five minutes. Often after the moms grab a stack of towels, they realize they don’t need that many after unfolding all of them, then they just leave them on their chairs. How about you keep them folded, and put them back if you don’t need them? People don’t think about the work it takes to provide clean towels and they take advantage of the abundance of