This video of holidaymakers rushing to put their towels on a sun lounger will leave you pining for a staycation

This will strike a chord with anyone who has turned up to the hotel swimming pool to find a towel on EVERY sun bed.

Except we’ve never seen people quite so keen as this lot to bag their spot at a hotel in Gran Canaria. Sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L46PeCL3sTg

Look at the length of the queue. Of people waiting to put their towels down before going back to bed.

“People wait for the swimming pool to open. They walk in and go for a swim, is what you expect. But no: they just drop their towel on a bed and … return to their mobile home, not to come back within a couple of hours.”

Ooh, you can feel the fury from here.

https://twitter.com/Maisie_Bullman/status/889414444387794944

Up at crack of dawn every morning to QUEUE to put towels down, then a sprint to the sun beds. Thought this was meant to be a holiday! pic.twitter.com/ZcoQHQieDM

— Andy Freeman (@rowdy_freeman) July 22, 2017

There MUST be a better way of allocating sun beds than towels. Why aren't economists working on this?

— Adam Parsons (@adamparsons) July 29, 2017

It’s reassuring to know that the Brits have been in training for this sort of thing for years.