Handbags In Tables

@Garlicking I'm not outraged, I'm just full on laughing at you

Such a ridiculous comment!

If you don't want to put it on the floor, then I don't understand why you wouldn't just put it on your lap.

I was thinking more of places like McDonald's, where customers are constantly coming & going and there are few or no floor staff. It's about opportunity - your bag's also at risk under a pavement table, whatever the establishment's price or 'class'. But you go ahead and be outraged if you like!

When I’ve spent £500 on a bag I’m not putting it on the dirty floor. It’s a bag on a table chill out. You’re not dining with the queen you’re meant to be with friends and family that you’re relaxed and comfortable with why is it so triggering for you?

I must remember that inside a good restaurant my bag won't get stolen!

Does Nando's qualify as good?

What a load of snobby rubbish! Please do show me the statistics for more bags getting stolen in low class restaurants.

I dislike it too, OP. But unless you're inside a 'good' restaurant, bags on the floor or hung over chair backs get stolen. You can keep your bag on your lap, but that's uncomfortable and slightly gross if eating. You can pop it behind your bum, but it could still be stolen unless you keep it squashed behind your back.

Bags on tables it is.

if its someone you're dining with, just order pasta and spray the bag liberally with sauce.
they'll either avoid putting the bag on the table, or not dine out with you again.

Where are all these places where there's always a hook on the back of the door? I more often find there never was a hook, or it's broken or fallen off.

I Had Words about the lack of hooks once with two blokes with clipboards who were doing some kind of survey of the ladies' loos at my local station.

(But I suppose the sort of people who have bags that cost a month's salary aren't the sort that mingle with us plebs on the trains.)

I'm going to disagree with you, both on your manners and grammar

Maybe she goes nice places where they provide a little stool for the bag.

Considering you’ve written “Handbags In Tables” as your OP title, I’m going to hazard a guess that you are nowhere near as intelligent as you’d like to think you are. You believe you’re polite, but seek to control others. That is the height of emotional unintelligence. You must have low self-esteem and be extremely insecure. Consider your moral high ground well and truly snatched. “Handbags on tables?” - there, fixed it for you. You’re very welcome. Respect is earned, not automatically given and you come across as extremely arrogant and short-sighted throughout your thread so I saw no reason to depart with pleasantries. Your pathetically smug response to me here proves my point really. I won’t be engaged in any more conversation with you, you’re just not educated enough for me to waste my time on. Goodbye. 👋

I gather she’s still struggling to find a partner. I don’t think it’s bitchy to presume this might be because of her priorities in life, and where she sees herself, her handbags and other people in life’s pecking order.

Meow.

I have more than “basic manners” when it warrants. How about learning not to dictate where people place their belongings that are absolutely of no concern of yours? I would say that’s falls under the umbrella of basic manners too myself. Have a wonderful day. 🌞

Calm down Hyacinth

I dont think its rude

I think its WAY ruder to say "Google it"

Perhaps try getting the fuck over yourself? Might be useful for you.

In Portugal it's considered very odd to put a handbag on the floor. I do it when I go to the hairdresser and it's always picked up within moments to be put on it's own chair next to me 😃

I wonder what possible reason people would have a problem with a clutch bag on the table. They are small and never go on a floor.

I guess it's not common to use a clutch during the day

Personally in place it behind me in between my butt and the back of the chair but this would obviously only work if it fits

I had dinner out with two girlfriends plus a friend of one of them, quite a few years ago. Probably just when expensive handbags became a thing. We had two tables of two pushed together, with a banquette facing two chairs. We were also in the corner.

The friend of a friend made a beeline for the banquette next to the wall (so, in the corner, the spot farthest away from waiters/plebs). She had a new Birkin. I was in the spot next to her. She sat down and put her bag next to her. I went to sit down but there wasn’t enough space, so I asked her to move her bag. She refused to put it on the floor or on her feet penguin-style. I don’t think it occurred to her to put it between her and the wall, because then she would have been encroaching on my quarter of the table frontage. No, it had to go on the banquette between us. The tables weren’t wide enough for two people to sit side by side with a Birkin between them (it was a bistro-type place in Paris), so once seated next to her with her bag between us, I had the corner of the table digging into my rib cage.

After looking at her in disbelief for a few seconds, and her spluttering about how expensive the handbag was and she couldn’t risk it getting scratched or dirty, I asked the waiter for a third chair and sat perpendicular to my table. She was so pleased. A spot for her, a spot for her Birkin, and two of her dining companions squished together with their plates and stemware jostling for space. The waiter knew instantly what was going on and he was very accommodating of my requests, and extremely Parisian-style rude to the Birkin owner.

First and last time I saw her. Our mutual friends still stays in touch with her, we’re in our 50s now. I gather she’s still struggling to find a partner. I don’t think it’s bitchy to presume this might be because of her priorities in life, and where she sees herself, her handbags and other people in life’s pecking order.

Depending on the bag, I either put it behind my back on the chair (not hanging off it), gripped between my ankles not touching the floor, or beside me on the bench or other chair if available. In the loos, it either hangs from the hook or is gripped by my double-chin while I get sorted.

I've been doing some reading up on crime, and apparently it was already pretty 'commonplace' in the thirteenth century. So I have no idea when you have in mind as being 'before crime'.

I don't often carry a bag, but if I do I will hang it off my chair, although this is asking for robbery, because my phone and cards are all on my person. I dislike trying to talk to someone over the top of an enormous handbag if they are sitting at a two person table opposite me and have dumped something the size of a cargo vessel on the table.

Apparently they go on the toilet floor though. Hence why the OP doesn't want them on the dinner table.