Unfortunately, sometimes these brats CAN show up at the Ritz-Carlton (!) Over the weekend during my stay there was one instance when they were in a non-adult pool and yes it was Marco Polo (!!) Thankfully the staff had the good sense to actively kick anyone not an adult out of adult-only areas and the kids were relatively subdued.

Now I feel ashamed for actually teaching kids to play Marco Polo all those years ago when I taught swimming at the city pool. And come to think of it the point of all these games were to waste the kids time so the irresponsible parents that plopped them out can dump their responsibility onto someone else...