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AIBU?

to have called a stranger a prat?

108 replies

MinnieMoose2014 · 02/02/2014 23:38

I took my toddler swimming today. Afterwards we went to the cafe and put our bags down at a table and dd played with some toys while I looked at the menu. It is a place where you can't order food unless you have a table number so we left swim bag there/coats on chairs/toys on table and went to the till to order. When we returned a woman was sitting at our table and had removed all our belongings to a nearby shelf. The conversation went like this:
Me: Excuse me, we were sitting here.
Her: Were, perhaps. Now I am.
Me: I have just ordered food to come to this table and there are no others suitable for a highchair.
Her: (shrugs) Like you say, there are other tables so off you go. You weren't sitting here so I chose to.
Me: You cannot order food here without a table number and I cannot be in two places at once.
Her: Not really my problem is it, love.

At which point I retrieved our belongings and sat myself and dd down.

Her: What do you think you're doing?!
Me: Sitting at our table waiting for our lunch.
Her: But my husband and son are sitting there!
Me: Were, perhaps. Now we are.
Her: But they're expecting me to be here.
Me: Not really my problem is it, love.

She gets up huffily removing her belongings and mutters that maybe I'll be less cranky when dd is older and I get more sleep (!) and I replied: perhaps. Shame you'll still be a prat!

My sister was meeting us there after lunch and saw the woman scowling at me so I explained what'd been said. She was blushing on my behalf and said I should've just moved and can't go round calling strangers prats. Wibu?

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phoolani · 02/02/2014 23:41

Ha ha ha! Brilliant response! I would've given you a high five had I witnessed such fabulous word sword play!

LMH20 · 02/02/2014 23:42

You were there first nice to see someone in this world stand up for themselves for once people like her think they own the world i would have said worse that prat lol a well handled and smartly handled situation ;)

LessMissAbs · 02/02/2014 23:43

YANBU. Would she also have eaten your lunch once it had been delivered to the table?!

ScrabbleBabble · 02/02/2014 23:43

You did perfect OP

RandyRudolf · 02/02/2014 23:43

You were far more restrained than I could ever be. Well done OP. The woman was a prize prat.

Alambil · 02/02/2014 23:43

brilliant! definitely NBU!

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 02/02/2014 23:44

can't wait to see what the first 'yabu' is. you weren't, btw.

ephemeralfairy · 02/02/2014 23:45

On Friday morning I shouted 'you cunt!' at a cyclist who ran a red light on a pedestrian crossing. I think you were most restrained...!

RandyRudolf · 02/02/2014 23:46

YABU for not telling her to fuck of to the far side of fuck....

aquashiv · 02/02/2014 23:46

Brilliant you didn't need the prat but with those lines you could have got away with sticking your finger on your nose and waggling it

HeartShapedBox · 02/02/2014 23:46

yanbu.

she was. I probably
definitely would have used a much stronger word than "prat".

humha · 02/02/2014 23:47

I'd like to shake your hand. When you're on your own with children places like this are a nightmare.

She was awful. Well done for standing up to her.

StrawberryTartYum · 02/02/2014 23:47

YANBU wow though am jealous I couldnt do that I would move like a wimp. She was rude first!

TwoAndTwoEqualsChaos · 02/02/2014 23:48

Reminds me of the Winston Churchill/Nancy Astor annecdote ....

ToootSweet · 02/02/2014 23:49

BRILLIANT

2Retts · 02/02/2014 23:51

YABVU! How will this woman ever learn when 'prat' is the worst she is accused of being in the face of such obnoxious behaviour?

Seriously though, well done for showing such exceptional constraint

AnyFuleKno · 02/02/2014 23:52

bravo hearty applause

2Retts · 02/02/2014 23:52

One of my favourites of all time too TwoAndTwo

BrianTheMole · 02/02/2014 23:55

HMG83 · 03/02/2014 00:03

Haha brilliant!!!!!

What a silly bint! Pratface, not you OP.

BustedRussian · 03/02/2014 00:16

I love you.

tallwivglasses · 03/02/2014 00:20

Impressive. Do you run classes? Put me down for a place :)

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falulahthecat · 03/02/2014 00:24

You can't go around calling strangers prats? How about that woman can't go around stealing tables she knows are obviously taken by mothers with young kids?

I would've done exactly what you did, only not been so polite about it ;p

CouthyMow · 03/02/2014 01:02

Pure Class, OP! I would have done the same thing.

Amy106 · 03/02/2014 05:25

Good for you! She will think twice before being such a prat again.

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