Skip to main content
Skip to main navigation
Skip to talk navigation

Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Unflip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Saved Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Unflip

1 2 3 4 5

AIBU?

to have not hurried for table hawks?

113 replies

howmuchwouldyoutake · 02/11/2013 22:43

I am totally willing to be told i was being unreasonable.

DP was working today so nipped into town with DS. DS fell asleep in his buggy so i nipped legged it shit hot into a coffee shop.

I sat at one of the tiny, just big enough for two tables with a scone and a posh coffee and had been there maybe 10 minutes (so still had half left) when a couple approached with a tray and asked if i'd be long. I said 'yes, sorry, a little while' and went back to the trashy mag i was reading thinking that they'd move on.

Nope - she asked how long! I repeated i'd be a little while and he said 'well we'll wait here'. Then they stood right over me for a good 5 minutes watching me stuff my face until a table came free over the other side (which i pointed out - they were too busy hovering next to me)

Cafe was busy. No other tables but they didn't ask anyone else, just hovered. My table was really tiny so i didn't offer to share. Not a big deal in the scheme of it but totally spoilt my treat. Wibu not to have hurried?

OP posts:

Report

StealthPolarBear · 04/11/2013 21:23

Butter. Just butter. Cream and jam is for Paddington.

RealAleandOpenFires · 04/11/2013 21:16

Its scone for 1.
Scoone for 2 or more.

CrystalTits · 04/11/2013 20:15

Sorry Eldritch, you lost me at "what the motherfucking blazes...". Phrase of the day!

dubstarr73 · 04/11/2013 20:08

Scone == bone

CrapBag · 04/11/2013 20:08

YANBU. I would have pretended I didn't know they stayed there and taken as long as possible to read my magazine. They were very rude.

SirChenjin · 04/11/2013 20:03

Actually - scones should have coconut and cherries in them and should be eaten with butter. No other form of scone (rhymes with gone) should exist.

EldritchCleavage · 04/11/2013 17:44

Scones with raisins/currants/sultanas - WRONG

What the motherfucking blazes is wrong with you people?

Cheese scones for savoury treat

Plain scones for cream teas.

Fruit scones eaten with butter only.

And those of you who have butter as well on a cream tea are decadent wankers responsible for the obesity crisis.

OP, you were not unreasonable, they were very bad-mannered and I really dislike the way some people think they can intimidate women. If you were a man sitting with a baby they would not have done this, I'm pretty sure.

DameDeepRedBetty · 04/11/2013 17:21

Yanbu, they were clearly sad bonkers gits. Waitress service solves most table hogging issues.

Cheese scones are the work of the devil.

MrsOakenshield, you don't SPREAD the jam on top of the cream on your scone, you DOLLOP it with a spoon.

notso · 04/11/2013 17:10

YANBU aggressive lurking should not be tolerated,
It's ok to bag a table,
It's annoying to take a table for four if there's only one of you and there are plenty of tables for one or two and sit sipping a coffee hogging the free wifi,
It's scone to rhyme with cone,
Butter, jam then cream,
Cheese scones are delicious.

YouTheCat · 04/11/2013 17:08

I really want a scone now.

I've had to settle for my gone-wrong-Christmas cake.

everlong · 04/11/2013 16:58

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

MrsOakenshield · 04/11/2013 16:53

oh, and the scone has to be at least warm. Cold scones are yeuch.

MrsOakenshield · 04/11/2013 16:52

how can you possibly spread jam on top of cream? The jam is heavier as well, surely, so obviously it's scone (to rhyme with gone), jam, cream.

I'm not pro baggsying, but that's just dreadfully rude. It sounds like you had baggsied and bought before they queued so it's not as though they thought there was a free table but then you nipped into it, cos then they could have just sat down at it anyway while you were still queuing!

Sallystyle · 04/11/2013 16:50

I only ever eat scones plain.

YANBU

I would have been so rude back.

howmuchwouldyoutake · 04/11/2013 16:43

Intit - I wasn't dawdling, I'd been there 10 minutes... if I'm paying a fiver for a scone and coffee I want to relax whilst eating / drinking :)

OP posts:

nemno · 04/11/2013 16:34

Hang on SirChenjin you think people who are part of a group but aren't buying should stand until the person with food arrives with it?

Nope, that ain't ever going to happen, no matter how much it screws up the ideal self-service cafe model.

YouTheCat · 04/11/2013 16:33

But why should she hurry up? I would go at the pace that I would have gone at anyway.

intitgrand · 04/11/2013 16:32

They were being rude by chivvying you, but you were being rude dawdling when people were waiting.

SirChenjin · 04/11/2013 16:27

OK HowMuch - in that circumstance you can bags a table. In all others - join the queue and wait your turn for a free table!

I've worked in cafes in my student days - if no-one offers to carry your tray just ask, although to be fair the people who are most guilty of table baggsying are groups ie they all stand looking at the menu and the cake display, leave their order with one person, and do and hog a table - then help carry the trays over. The people in front of them (who have queued properly) then can't get a table because they've hogged a table even though the person they are with is at the back of the queue. So - empty baggsied tables, people waiting to sit down, and a queue that grinds to a standstill.

Oh dear lord, I'm taking this too seriously. I said I wouldn't. I'm a weak person

FamiliesShareGerms · 04/11/2013 16:11

It's scone to rhyme with bone

I know the cream should go on first, but as I slather it on thickly I have never been able to spread the jam on top of the cream, so I do it jam then cream. Yum, I want a scone now....

YouTheCat · 04/11/2013 15:59

I'd have ignored them. Things like this just don't bother me.

Cheese scones are the best. Especially the ones I made last week.

howmuchwouldyoutake · 04/11/2013 15:59

There was no-one in the queue SirChen - the cafe got busy after I was sat down becaus eit started to rain. I'd rather bagsy than wrestle the buggy and a tray (I worked in a cafe as a student and would always offer to carry trays but sadly this doesn't happen now much)

OP posts:

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Email address

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

SirChenjin · 04/11/2013 15:52

The table baggsying is usually done by the baggsiers when there are other tables available. What they fail to take account of are the non baggsiers who have queued patiently for their drinks and food, who turn around to get a seat only to find that the empty tables have coats over the back of the chairs - and the owners way behind them in the queue.

The queue then becomes useless because those at the back effectively skip the ones who haven't baggsied at the front, and those at the front are left standing with trays of food and drink while there are tables with no-one sitting at them.

dubstarr73 · 04/11/2013 15:51

I cant believe no one who worked there saw this.I would have called someone over and said it to them.Or said it to the hovers.I would havve ordered something else just to piss them off

TwoTearsInABucket · 04/11/2013 15:41

Why would people do this? Why? WHY??

Yanbu to have reserved the table or taken bloody aaaaages to finish your well deserved scone (to rhyme with gone).

Yabu to have had a cheese scone, they smell of sick.

It's scone, cream, jam with plain or fruit scones. I like glacé cherry scones with butter from the supermarket though, nice and claggy!

Unflip

1 2 3 4 5

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.