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Was anyone else at Snape Maltings today? Did Alan get his table?

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WonderfulSmith · 30/08/2025 22:31

Before I start I know it’s none of my business and I’m a bad person I’m sure but…

I was at Snape Maltings today which is a nice arts centre with a lovely shop selling all sorts of home wares and furniture. It’s very quiet and sedate.
Anyway, a woman started yelling at her husband. The whole place was pretending not to listen while giving each other looks. Turned out that he had ordered a perfectly innocent side table without talking to her about it first. She demanded that he cancel the order and he refused. He sat down on a sofa in the shop and she went and sat in the car. Every so often she’d come back and stick her head around the door, tell him the table was disgusting, and stomp back out.

When we left, Alan was still sat on the sofa. But I want to know how it ended. Are they still there now? Did Alan cancel the order?

Were any of you there?

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FollowSpot · 30/08/2025 23:00

And you didn’t get a surreptitious pic of the side table so that we could make a meaningful decision as to whether we are Team Alan or not?

Tsk.

Scalextricks · 30/08/2025 22:57

She's probably worked really hard making her house look good and then her husband has bought something that will look baffling in it.

Or maybe it's like my friend whose husband always made her feel there was no money for things most of us would think of as essential but would go and buy random and irrational expensive things

Clafoutie · 30/08/2025 22:54

WonderfulSmith · 30/08/2025 22:52

Alan didn’t say a word the whole time. She came in shouting ‘you’ve done what? What table?’ Alan indicates the table. ‘Oh bloody hell, oh that’s horrible, oh it’s disgusting. And you’ve ordered it? Well you can just bloody cancel it then’.
She then stomped out, carrying the dog.
Alan then went over to the cash desk and said ‘I’m in trouble, I’m not going to cancel though.’

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WonderfulSmith · 30/08/2025 22:52

TheSlantedOwl · 30/08/2025 22:43

Alan may seem like the injured party here but maybe he’s always making ‘executive decisions’ without her input and she just snapped!

More Alan info please, world

Alan didn’t say a word the whole time. She came in shouting ‘you’ve done what? What table?’ Alan indicates the table. ‘Oh bloody hell, oh that’s horrible, oh it’s disgusting. And you’ve ordered it? Well you can just bloody cancel it then’.
She then stomped out, carrying the dog.
Alan then went over to the cash desk and said ‘I’m in trouble, I’m not going to cancel though.’

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TellHimYourName · 30/08/2025 22:52

a perfectly innocent side table

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l want to know now

Karistyleaftea · 30/08/2025 22:49

I hope someone lets you know the outcome.
Snape Maltings is rather lovely , fab Hepworth sculptures in the gardens I remember.

TheSlantedOwl · 30/08/2025 22:43

Alan may seem like the injured party here but maybe he’s always making ‘executive decisions’ without her input and she just snapped!

More Alan info please, world

TalulaHalulah · 30/08/2025 22:42

I am just here for any updates about the table.

Anon501178 · 30/08/2025 22:41

Haha I live fairly near Snape maltings and this story made me giggle 😅 Poor Alan and his table!

wendywoopywoo222 · 30/08/2025 22:41

Poor Alan.

pambeesleyhalpert · 30/08/2025 22:39

There’s a video on TT atm where a woman is screaming at a man for being Parked outside her bfs house- the man Had broken down, wasn’t parked. She got her bf out and he was explaining as well and he was looking at her like she was mad. The update Was that he broke up with her after that because she was acting like a lunatic. His name was Alan as well so I wonder if he’s the same Guy 🙈

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WonderfulSmith · 30/08/2025 22:38

Echobelly · 30/08/2025 22:33

No, but I wish i had been! Poor Alan.

Yes, poor Alan, and it was a perfectly nice table, but don’t go buying things without discussing it first.

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Echobelly · 30/08/2025 22:33

No, but I wish i had been! Poor Alan.