My 8 year old daughter has swimming lessons.

There is a public gallery, but there are also benches by the pool.

I was sat there for until 09:52 (the lesson ends at 10:00) and I was approached by a member of staff asking me to move to the gallery. It takes me, a relatively fit man, about 2 minutes to get to the gallery, so 2 minutes up, 2 minutes down.

I said there was 8 minutes and he said it was policy. I looked around and saw about 4 mum's sat on other benches whom he would have had to walk past to get to me.

I asked him if it was policy, then had the mum's been asked to move. He sheeplishly said he was about to.

I told him I felt uncomfortable about being the only parent asked to move on, especially as my child was the only girl in the lesson. It felt like she'd been singled out for being a girl. And I'd feel a lot more comfortable leaving her, after I had seen him move on the mothers.

Once he did this I picked up all my daughter's stuff, made an exaggerated look at the clock and sat back down again.

When he come over again, I explained it was now 09:58 and the class leaves a minute early to make room for the new class. So, I wasn't going to abandon my daughter, thanks.

I mean, I get why I was asked. It had nothing to do with my child being a girl.

It was because I was a 44 year old man, so I must be a creep, right?