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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:
waikikamookau · 03/11/2013 08:57

i dont know actually whether a cheese scone woudl go with coffee or a pot of tea for one.
depends on the time of day, for me

londonrach · 03/11/2013 08:57

How dare you......now i want a scone and i havent even had breakfast yet!!! Seriously would have ordered a piece of victoria sponge cake and another drink as your son was still sleeping. Where you all coming from with the scones...a nice fresh fruit scone cut in two with fresh butter only.... Why ruin it with jam and (shudder) cream....

Orangeanddemons · 03/11/2013 09:02

Now I was watching that Ade Edmonson travels around Britain thing the other day.

Apparently: Cornwall is scone, jam cream, the scones were served warm, and the cold cream would have melted onto them.
Devon: scone, cream, jam

Pronounced scone to rhyme with home

LaurieFairyCake · 03/11/2013 09:02

I literally ignore people who are rude to me in public - I don't look at them at all

It baffles them

I've also pretended to be deaf which is quite naughty really

Beastofburden · 03/11/2013 09:06

People get very stressed and aggressive, if they can see a problem ahead like not getting served until all the tables were gone. It makes them see red and behave in ways they wouldn't normally. They probably stood so close so as to stop anyone else pinching the table.

So I would have tried to get them back to their normal selves by saying, I will be ten minutes I think but could you not stand so close as its putting me off. Ill save it for you when I finish, if you'd like to wait over there.

Also don't like cream, even, or anything. Hot fruit scones and butter... Might have to make some. It's Sunday. Proper families have scones for Sunday tea, right?

IcedTeaOneSugar · 03/11/2013 09:08

My MIL gives up our table to these people usually before I've completely finished, so they start sitting down while I'm finishing my coffee.

Sometimes she does this while I've nipped to the loo so I come back to find someone in my seat and MIL holding my coat etc. Makes me very stabby.

Mouthfulofquiz · 03/11/2013 09:10

I'm Devonshire through and though so its scone cream jam all the way! It's the ONLY way. End of.
Basically it's a way of making sure I get LOADS of cream.

DownstairsMixUp · 03/11/2013 09:13

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This has been withdrawn by MNHQ at the poster's request.

FortyDoorsToNowhere · 03/11/2013 09:14

I don't even like scones.

Love a toasted teacake with jam and cream

DowntonTrout · 03/11/2013 09:17

DD and I were in a cafe in London and I left her sitting at our table for two with our food whilst I went back to the counter to buy a drink.

When I got back a woman was sitting in my chair eating her lunch. I had no choice but to go and find another chair and pull it up to the edge of the table to finish our food. Apparently she had just walked up and said to DD "is anyone using this seat?" and DD had replied "yes, my mum." and the woman had said " oh we'll I'm sure she won't mind if I sit here." and had plonked herself down.

I'm afraid I was so gobsmacked at her rudeness that i didn't ask her to move.

Beastofburden · 03/11/2013 09:19

Mouth, how do you pronounce scone?

I say scone= bone but where I live, people say that's common and I should say scone = gone.

I say, my granny said it my way, and she spoke what she called "proper Devon", ie dialect. But we are a family of poachers and blacksmiths, so although my granny fancied herself, we may just be common.....

5madthings · 03/11/2013 09:20

yanbu i would have taken ages and ordered something else.

cheese scones are the best! but if i have a plain scone i just have jam, no cream or butter.

MackerelOfFact · 03/11/2013 09:21

Scone
Jam
Scone

Scone jamwich.

digerd · 03/11/2013 09:23

I once found an empty table but NO CHAIRS to sit on Angry. Saw a table with an empty chair but was told it was taken. I said it must be an invisible person then and took the chair.

5madthings · 03/11/2013 09:24

icedtea my mil does that as well!! poor dd will still be eating and mil will be getting coats and clearimg the table, i am like wtf?!

Shatteredmamma1 · 03/11/2013 09:27

Omg. People are So Rude!!! YANBU. I
agree you should have ordered more food
just to piss them off. Good for you for
holding your ground / table.

GiveItYourBestFucker · 03/11/2013 09:27

Grin Laurie, I think I have met you!

Me (politely): excuse me, could I ask why you are cycling on the pavement when it is not a cycle path?

Adult cyclist: (thousand yard stare).

Cheeses scones are the best desperate attempt to stay on topic

gemmal88 · 03/11/2013 09:38

I'd have settled in for the afternoon at the table.

OH and I run a pub and we have a group of regulars that like a certain table. When they come in, if there is anyone else sitting there they literally hover over them a d wait for them to feel uncomfortable and drink up. It's cringeworthy to watch and if we catch them have to tell them to wind it in. There are plenty of suitable tables Smile

Come to think of it this happened in our last place too, some people are just weird.

jeanmiguelfangio · 03/11/2013 09:49

OP hope you are still at the table whilst posting- how rude!! 5 minutes with a quiet baby is a dream, I love a toasty cheese sandwich when this occurs without having to give any of it away!!

Ps it's scone, then jam, then anything else you like. No butter- that's wrong

BatPenguin · 03/11/2013 09:50

I had sympathy for you until you admitted it was a cheese scone.

I'm going to bow out now, the amount of people on this thread who top their scones incorrectly is distressing. Devon is the proper way.

badbride · 03/11/2013 09:54

OP, YWNBU.

As for the rest of you, it's: scone, jam, cream, jam, cream, jam, creamjamcreamjamcreamjam.
Do you know nothing????!!!! Grin

ChippingInLovesAGoodBang · 03/11/2013 10:07

Cheese scones rule :)

Plain scones - I'll take them either way.

Scones with raisins/currants/sultanas - WRONG.

I would have said 'I'll be longer than it will take for your drinks to go cold' :)

ProphetOfDoom · 03/11/2013 10:14

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MindyWiller · 03/11/2013 10:47

I'd have ordered another coffee, smiled sweetly and slouched back in the chair so they knew i wouldn't be moving.

if they had, somehow ended up with my table, instead of leaving i'd have stood over them, hovering and spoiling their treat. rude bastards.

and just so we are all clear; it's a SCONN with cream then jam.

Mouthfulofquiz · 03/11/2013 20:33

Scone to rhyme with bone. It's the ONLY way to say it.