to think that I shouldn't be stopped going to the friffing loo in Starbucks just because I wasn't buying a drink?

[ChimesTrulyRing]

FFS.

All the times I've been in there and not used the loo.

Should they start keeping a pizz record?

Yes Chimes. Thanks to you and your fellow pizzers all cafes are now starting to charge StarCraps prices.

Oh yeah. The recession double dip. Your fault too for pizzing without paying

Tuts

thats why we had the riots innit. Because every man and their dog thought they had the RIGHT to use Starbucks toilets. And then look whappen to that lady and her flutes.............

Toilet Duck isn't free you know. Paper costs. Those hissy air fresheners - £££.

It's not like I took Top Gear mazagine in or nuffin.

Well I suppose you are being unreasonable but I've gone toilets in cafes/restaurants plenty of times without actually buying anything. Better to be unreasonable than wet yourself, surely.

OP, I think you have made an important point here. Starbucks or whatever high street coffee place/pub/restaurant is a "watering hole" Correct me someone if I am wrong, but when I was last in Paris 1985 the law was that anyone could use the toilet facilities, whether a customer or not. Sadly did not find that useful nugget of information until we returned. I was 4mnth pregnant at the time, and wanted a wee every 100m so had to stop at all the lovely cafes. and eat and drink Would this come under EU Law?

I hate Starbucks and I make a point of going in there specifically for a piss (and only for a piss) whenever I can :o

YANBU. You went for a wee, big deal. If you regularly go there, then what on earth is the problem?

Starbucks sucks. Their coffee tastes like dishwater. The one time we bought it (and only because we were in a strange city and couldn't find another coffee shop in walking distance from the hotel) we dumped it out.

Starbucks was being unreasonable, perhaps you planned on grabbing something on the way out, for all they knew.

I knew I was R.

Always am

Morning CTR. The P&C space thread took a strange turn didn't it?

It did, yes.

I have alopogised.

Wasn't you fault. Someone came on and started being all serious.

What is wrong with people taking a thread seriously

Morning chaos, how's the head today? --mines not pretty, nors maryz--

I was taking it v seriously to start with. I was all worried about the OP getting flamed.

My father does the crosswords in the free newspapers in Costa then puts them back in the rack.

If he sees an interesting article he will tear it out to read later. Not surreptitiously - just openly; rrrrip. Then, again, puts the paper back in the rack - with its lacy underwear now dangling out.

He is an eighty-year-old delinquent and I can't take him anywhere. Do you think Jezza would be interested, for one of his televisual bear-baiting shows?

Sparkling, you learnt a lot last night, welcome to the darkside, we have [biscuits]

Talc I have to say he sounds brilliant, I can't wait to be old so I can be so openly naughty.

Top bog hint- Posh hotel lobby. They always have the nicest loos and no-one gives you grief about using them as long as you look not too out of place. Not even a nasty look from the bar. You can sit in the lobby for hours on end if need to cool heels, with an occasional cup of usually very good coffee. Thank you mal maison, hotel du vine, hyatt, crown plaza, hyatt, raddsison sas, and all the other lobbies in central brum i have had a wee in.

IME Starbucks often only have a disabled toilet, so if you nip in for a wee without buying anything you can commit two offences

Lord, Jj - that ain't the half of it: Chatting up waitresses in restaurants and always asking for a doggy bag/the hottest mustard they possess (if they bring him French he says "oh, not bloody surrender monkey mustard!")

His Facebook profile is a joy to behold - like something you'd expect from Salvador Dali.

tyler ours only have disabled in the cafe, normal toilets are up, 5 flights of stairs, I commit the offence, there's no way a newly toilet trained 2yo would make it!

We know it as a Starpiss in our household. As in, I'm just nipping for a starpiss, see you in 2 mins. Never challenged.
Same for a Mcpiss incidentally.

He sounds fantastic talc but why 'surrender monkey mustard' or am I showing my ignorance here?

Smile sweetly and say very loudly. " Thank you, Costa Coffees nicer anyway".
Clearly substituting another competing coffee house dependent on locality