to expect people who eat in public have some basic manners and standards!!!!

[tyredandexhausted]

walked into a pub chain today for a quick after work catch up with a few friends. Went to find a seat only to discover a couple opposite me who had the table manners of people who had never ate at a table; mouths wide open chomping on whatever they could cram in there, holding cutlery like f*ing daggers.
Decided to move tables so as not to sit looking at an episode of "Life on Earth-When Humans go Hungry", only to discover they had a three/four year old with them who was playing up because daddy wouldn't give him any more money for the video game thingy. Daddy took his pint with him and joined the boy on the machine leaving fat over made up wife with the perfect oppurtunity to polish of the rest of her darling spouses food, which she duly did!!
She then joins him and child asking for a pound for the "fruity", he says no. She starts gushing "but he's had a tenner's worth!". pointing to the child, he then tells her to fuck off in a whispery voice and returns to the table only to tell her she was a greedy bitch for eating his food.

Christ above, do people have any sense how to behave

You need a tippex water cannon for random punctuation errors.

'You need a tippex water cannon for random punctuation errors.'

I knew there'd be fucking something.

Threw ours away last week would you believe it?

I find poor table manners repulsive, too. I also find superficial snobs repulsive, so I'm damn glad I wasn't at the table next to you and this family.

Interesting that your reaction to a clear instance of spousal abuse is to look down your nose at the woman.

You threw your water cannon away, AZ? Tsk! Every family needs one; you never know when you might need it.

I know garlic

It was all those little bits of dried tippex, after misfiring and hitting a proof reader, there was nothing else for it.

Think I'd rather sit opposite them than you tbh.

With a tippex water cannon I'd be expecting to erase entire families.

Christ you did alot of observing didnt you OP! Was the fruity and the game machine next to your table and their table as you 'heard' his 'fuck off' in a whisper.

Jumping into AIBU with your first post may have bern a tad unwise OP.

Stick around and enjoy some of the less contentious areas.

Go and have your dainty scones and assam at The Ritz, then.

If one chooses to daine in a chain pub, one must expect to daine with simple vaile people, Bernard.

Well OP, give yourself a chocolate medal for being so superior to the family you describe. And a pat on the back. And a shiney. And a self made certificate.

Whatever.

Oh dear ...
I'd have been more outraged at him telling his wife to "f* off" than the chewing with open mouths. And was it necessary to comment on her weight and make up?

YABU. Yes it's not nice to hear someone swearing at his wife. But you must have been staring at people to get all that information that happened at 2 different tables. Also DD3 is 19 and is unable to hold her cutlery properly. This I'd because she is Dyspraxic not because of bad manners.

yabvu. I always eat with my mouth open. food tastes better when you allow it to mingle with fresh air...noone should have the right to deny me that.

yabvu. I always eat with my mouth open. food tastes better when you allow it to mingle with fresh air...noone should have the right to deny me that.

The OP sounds honest, I like it its a breath of fresh air, she said her OP just a she would if she was talking about it in rl with friends.

Whilst I agree with the OP that basic good manners should be observed wherever one is eating, and that foul language is not acceptable, the description of the woman is totally irrelevant.

the point of basic manners is that they make you bearable pleasant to be around so YANBU to hope to encounter some kind of basic manners when you are out and about but people eat the way they eat and not many people I assume really teach a particular eating style these days. It would be nice if people were kind and thoughtful and didn't hurl abuse on buses, in supermarkets , at school gates and everywhere really but it isn't the case, is it?

Mumeeee, it so understandable that your daughter might have issues holding cutlery due to being Dyspraxic, but from the sound of it these people regardless of where they were eating had no manners. Manners cost nothing and I don't think the op is being snobbish as she has not started belittling people by saying it was a class thing as manners have nothing to do with class. But that she was shocked by the people overall lack of manners in public which I agree is shocking in this day and age, as my gran says manners cost nothing.

Sorry for the repeat of manners cost nothing. Also meant (it is) not (it so)

It depends where you are eating. Manners across the classes differ. Downton
Abbeyesque would get laughed at in a pub.

It gets said regularly tha children are the biggest problem in eating places.
I suppose people mean free range kids who run about?

Etiquette changes across classes but not having a basic standard of manners, its often considered bad manners in different social classes to use the incorrect etiquette.

'It depends where you are eating' - No it does not manners are the same wherever you are.

"'It depends where you are eating' - No it does not manners are the same wherever you are."

No, actually, they aren't.