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AIBU?

to feel annoyed at that women in the coffee shop?

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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.

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SuePurblybilt · 02/04/2013 21:08

I am NOT back . And I got chaise in, does that count?

KatieScarlett2833 · 02/04/2013 21:08

Pleather or not its faux, the principle is the same

kungfupannda · 02/04/2013 21:09

No. It's got to be the whole thing. Or no slavish agreement for all eternity.

KatieScarlett2833 · 02/04/2013 21:10

The chaise can be longue when trying to find a sofa in a coffee shop, so, OP, YABU

RustyBear · 02/04/2013 21:11

Kungfu - you mean you will chaise them for a longue time?

Salmotrutta · 02/04/2013 21:11

I am literally crying here, the cats shot of the chair in alarm when I snorted out loud and have now got the hump.

Dead wasp anyone?

ShatnersBassoon · 02/04/2013 21:11

Where's OP? Chaise longue since disappeared. Ugh, that's terrible...

Salmotrutta · 02/04/2013 21:12

SuePurblybilt · 02/04/2013 21:12

Ok so, imagine if that woman had not only sat near the OP and invited ten of her closest friends to join her, but had also STOLEN the Op's skinny latte and amusingly oversized Bourbon biscuit?
She would have had to have given chaise, longue and hard until she caught her. Them biscuits are worth fighting for.

Will that do?

KatieScarlett2833 · 02/04/2013 21:13

SuePurblybilt · 02/04/2013 21:14

I feel I should be awarded points for adding more to the entirely imaginary scenario in the OP. I captured the spirit.

kungfupannda · 02/04/2013 21:14

Pfft. I fart in the general direction of your pathetic attempts.

When I was little, my family used to play a slightly crap game where you had to choose a category of items and then get them into sentences as puns. One game involved haberdashery items (I know, I know, it was a long journey and we'd played every other possible game) My grandad sat in absolute silence until everyone had given up on elastic and then quietly said "You know, I wanted to go to the concert but ALAS TICKets were not available"

I await a glorious moment like that. But with a chaise longue.

KurriKurri · 02/04/2013 21:15

For some reason that bit from Fawlty Towers keeps coming into my mind;

Mr. Hutchinson: Is it possible for me to reserve the BBC2 channel for the duration of this televisual feast?

Basil Fawlty: Why don't you talk properly?

kungfupannda · 02/04/2013 21:16

x-posted.

[embraces Sue and assumes slavish position 3 paces behind, nodding in agreement]

[offers Shatner a token nod]

KatieScarlett2833 · 02/04/2013 21:16

Sue really took the biscuit with that one ( badadabish)

Salmotrutta · 02/04/2013 21:17

That's not a crap game kungfu.

I remember playing the Fish version in the pub years ago.

SuePurblybilt · 02/04/2013 21:19

Excellent, Kungfu. Course, I only post on telly threads now (apart from this one, but the genius of the OP was enough to suck me in). So you'll have to come agree with my insightful comments on Jessie J's pleather trews.

ShatnersBassoon · 02/04/2013 21:20

Token nod is the pinnacle of my Mumsnet life. I'm touched.

kungfupannda · 02/04/2013 21:21

With booze presumably, Salmo.

Try playing it entirely sober in a car from Newcastle to Inverness in the days before ipads and smart phones!

Anyway, I'm off for a bath. I agree with anything Sue says while I'm gone.

SuePurblybilt · 02/04/2013 21:22

I think that kungfupannda is a caah with visible nasal hair

GreenEggsAndNichts · 02/04/2013 21:23

I am so glad I clicked on this thread. :)

KatieScarlett2833 · 02/04/2013 21:24

I think kungfupanda is an imposter, I mean, pandas can't even manage to reproduce, never mind get a black belt. Lazy feckers.

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Salmotrutta · 02/04/2013 21:24

So am I.

It's like The Piano Wig Thread.

IncrediblePhatTheInnkeepersCat · 02/04/2013 21:25

The OP's gOT TO MANage to post some more details.

Salmotrutta · 02/04/2013 21:26

Oi!
I was trying to think of an ottoman pun!

You horrid person!

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