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to feel annoyed at that women in the coffee shop?

286 replies

gabsid · 02/04/2013 19:11

Today I sat down at a sofa (2 2-seater sofas) in a busy city coffee shop enjoying my coffee and waiting for DP and DC. A woman with a baby came up to me and asked whether the second sofa was free and I said no since I was waiting - fine. The people on the next sofa just left so she took that seat, when within the next 5 minutes another 3 women with 2 babies arrived!

Had I been by myself I would have offered the sofa and I would have been happy for 2 more people to share my table, but share 2 2-seater sofas with 4 adults and 2 babies? I would have been very annoyed and probably left to find somewhere else to sit. That would have been so rude of them!

Luckily it didn't come to that, but it might have.

OP posts:
lazarusb · 02/04/2013 20:46

BeerTricks Don't forget to smear shit on your face too...You'll have the place to yourself Grin

SuePurblybilt · 02/04/2013 20:47

Settees, eh? Then she did right to chaise them away
Grin

KatieScarlett2833 · 02/04/2013 20:48

OP next time, put your futon it.

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 02/04/2013 20:50
Grin

I feel a bit guilty. I think the OP would have had a point and now we're getting all carried away with silliness and puns.

OP

Come back, you don't have to "settle" for this treatment

Coconutty · 02/04/2013 20:52

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JamieandtheMagicTorch · 02/04/2013 20:52

Don't suffah (Arabic for sofa .) in silence

SuePurblybilt · 02/04/2013 20:53

Course, when I were a lad there were none of this sofas in coffee shops nonsense. But then. I'm old-Stool.

IncrediblePhatTheInnkeepersCat · 02/04/2013 20:56

I think the OP has disappeared in a pouffe of smoke.

BOEUF · 02/04/2013 20:56

Chair up love, it might never happen.

apostropheuse · 02/04/2013 20:56

OK just to clarify for all who are having trouble understanding the OP's scenario:

She goes into café and sits her arse on one two-arsed sofa.
There is a further two-arse sofa nearby - probably across a low oak coffee table. I imagine the sofas are brown leather.

This cheeky bastard walks into the café and asks OP - Can I sit my arse on that spare two-arsed sofa sitting at the other side of the low oak coffee table?

OP at this point sweetly smiles and says no I'm waiting for husband and weans to arrive - probably only two weans as you can't overcrowd two-arse sofas and the OP is well aware of this.

Cheeky bastard newcomer probably rolls her eyes, thinking what a numpty, and goes off to another area in the café where there is another two-arse sofa free. She sits her one arse on sofa and is shortly joined by another 3 women with one arse each - and two babies into the bargain!

Well at this point the OP thinks, thank goodness she didn't sit on MY other brown leather two-arse sofa which is sitting on the opposite side of the low oak coffee table from me! If that had happened there would have been a total of five adult women arses and two weans to sit on two two-arse sofas. (OP's arse and the other four women's arses, just to reiterate).

Now of course, all of this has really upset the OP, but before you all condemn her please just think of this. None of you can judge as you don't know the size of the OP's arse. She might have had a medical need to ensure that her arse wasn't squeezed in any way. Or perhaps not.

HTH

KatieScarlett2833 · 02/04/2013 20:57

Imagine if she'd sat down and BF
There would have been a chest( in your)field of vision!!!

UptheChimney · 02/04/2013 20:58

Terrible. Other people daring to clog up cafés with their children just when you wanted the Whole World for your one child.

Some people have no consideration.

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 02/04/2013 20:59
SuePurblybilt · 02/04/2013 20:59

Look, the poor OP clearly meant no arm. rest assured, it could happen to anyone.

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 02/04/2013 20:59

Oh my upholstered dais!

BoysAreLikeDogs · 02/04/2013 21:00

Yeh yeh yeh, sofa jokes blah blah v good but LOOK Sue's back hurrah!

BeerTricksPotter · 02/04/2013 21:01

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SirChenjin · 02/04/2013 21:01

Good - that's what you get got keeping a seat in a coffee shop. Buy your bloody coffee and THEN find a seat so those of us who have already bought our coffees don't have to wander round a cafe looking at tables with only one person on them while our coffee gets cold

MillyMollyMandy78 · 02/04/2013 21:02

I have had the worst day (seriously - and nothing to do with sofas) but this thread has made my day. So funny!

Fleecyslippers · 02/04/2013 21:02

Faux leather or real leather ?

apostropheuse · 02/04/2013 21:04

Faux leather, with saggy cushions subtly shaped by the many arses which have graced them fleecy

Vicky2011 · 02/04/2013 21:07

"So funny" - brilliant MMM78

ShatnersBassoon · 02/04/2013 21:07

I get ya op. I was in Costa yesterday and a woman asked me if she could have the paper that was on my table as I was leaving. It was my paper and I hadn't finished with it so she apologised and had to make do with an Express from another table. It's a good job she didn't throw her coffee in my face, wrestle me to the ground and take the paper from me. I'd have been really mad with her for a really long time.

kungfupannda · 02/04/2013 21:07

If anyone manages to get chaise longue into a post, I will follow them around the boards agreeing with everything they say forevermore.

CheCazzo · 02/04/2013 21:07

Loving that there really is a NN BrokenBritain Grin

Is all this anything to do with Sharon? Confused

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