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Then the kid right behind me poked the lady in FRONT of me in the butt with a pool noodle, and she thought it was ME. So then I had her BOYFRIEND to deal with. I really didn't want to get into a fight over something like this, but luckily it didn't come to that. We were at the top of the stairs, and it was time to go down the slide. Unfortunately, the raft was a four-seater, which made things pretty awkward on the ride down.

The slide emptied out into an area where there were a ton of rafts, which was great because it gave me a chance to hide from that woman and her boyfriend. I went around the lazy river twice to make sure I'd lost them. I'd had enough with the water after that, so I went back to our lounge chair to get my clothes.

But the chair was GONE, and all our stuff was lying in a pile on the ground. I found the rest of my family at the snack bar getting lunch and told them what happened with our lounge chair. Mom said it wouldn't be hard to figure out who TOOK it because of the broken straps.

We spread out to look for it, and I searched the area by the wave pool. Sure enough, our lounge chair was there. But I couldn't BELIEVE who was SITTING in it. I don't know what the odds are of running into the same people again and again, but this was starting to get RIDICULOUS. I figured it was best to just let the Beardos HAVE our lounge chair and not make it into a big deal. So when I caught back up with my family, I pretended I didn't have any luck finding our chair.

By now our food was getting cold, and we still didn't have anywhere to eat. We eventually found a place to sit behind the snack bar. Everyone seemed ready to leave after that. Mom asked for the key to the locker so she could get our stuff. But I told her I didn't HAVE it. She said she had given me the key, but I turned both pockets of my bathing suit inside out to prove they were empty.

I was pretty sure she'd given the key to RODRICK, but he said HE didn't have it, either. Everybody searched themselves for the key, but we all came up empty-handed. This was a HUGE problem, because Mom and Dad's cell phones and wallets were in that locker, so we couldn't leave until we found it. We went to an employee at the front counter and told him we lost our key. But when he asked what our locker number was, none of us could remember. There were hundreds of them, and they all looked exactly the same.