John Lewis Café Rage

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Went to John Lewis café today, this is Southampton, in case you know it, the one on the top floor with lovely panoramic windows. We were lucky enough to get a table by the window. So DS and I are there enjoying our drinks, minding our own business, when a middle-aged woman comes by with a tray of dirty stuff and dumps it on our table! I gave her a 'wtf?' look and she kind of gesticulated towards the table nearby, where her DH had sat down. So in order to have a clear table themselves, they dumped someone else's dirty stuff on ours! When we'd finished I was going to do the same to them but DS wouldn't let me. WTAF? AIBU for this to give me the rage

What?! How rude. But you can't help those that don't help themselves. Why just fume and not tackle it?

Cheeky cow! I wish your son hadn't stopped you from putting it back, what the hell was she thinking?

I know that cafe well. The views are lovely! The tables by the window are 2 tables for 2 aren't they? With a tiny gap inbetween so that they are more like tables for 4 but not quite together. If you were next to the window and she put it on the outside table then she was only inconsiderate, especially as the staff clearer area is at the end so can't have been far. If she put it on your table for two she is a rude bitch.

Why are the John Lewis restaurant staff not clearing the tables?

I know this restaurant, which is why I eat in Ikea, (same panoramic view, still have to clear stuff away but so much cheaper.)

What?! That's crazy behaviour.

Was your table bigger ie she thought you could just take it?

I would have taken it back to her and crashed it down on her table. What a twat.

Errrr, yeah, bonkers! It would have been returned with a polite smile.

I am a regular at that same cafe...and you do get some oddities! I bet her companion was head in hands.

OP why did you mention the age of the woman?

I don't understand people who sit there and don't react to things like this!
I would have put it straight back on their table and pointed out the nearest bin.

Were you at a much larger table?

Um, why didn't you say something?

No idea why I mentioned her age. I am definitely too British.

I love it in there...I think maybe I didn't make a fuss in case I got barred! Still clearly affected by the misdemeanours of my youth I think.

Today the tables had no gap. It varies. So ours was a table for 4 and so was theirs.

I am definitely despairing of the human race today. Looking at all the litter on the way home. And all the gum on the pavements. And I had my car cleaned while were shopping - £20 effing quid, and it's not done properly. Oh, and Clarks shoes gave me the rage as well today. When the label says leather/manmade for the lining, how the heck do you tell which bit is plastic and which bit isn't?

I call failed attempt at a GF story.

Why would the OP not mention that the woman was middle-aged? Many of us (foolishly, apparently) expect mature adults to behave in a mature way, so it makes the incident more eyebrow-raising. Although, I must add that I am increasingly taken aback by the behaviour of the older generation, particularly those who frequent John Lewis and M&S, who think nothing of shoulder-charging people out of the way to get to what they want, cracking small children in the face with wire shopping baskets in the food hall, queue-jumping and generally being arseholes.

She was appallingly rude. Her age is irrelevant.

What's a GF story? If it was a complete table then she was very rude. I too love it in there although the prices are a little eyebrow raising.

Goady Fucker

I apologise, OP, if it is true. I just felt post and then nothing was a bit sus.

I could put up a pic of my receipt if that would help, Going. If I can find it. It wouldn't prove the story though would it

This is a good story for daily mail sadface

You can have pictures with a tray of dirty dishes in a variety of poses. You can get your son to do the special junior sad face too

Why on earth didn't you tell her to take it away immediately?

Queen.

Augusta, because I am too British. And DS is a teenager and would have been mortfied. And I didn't want to get barred from my favourite place

Agree with Dollybird !

I'm British and I'd have said something...

Punch a pillow then open a bottle of wine and relax.

It's Southampton - believe me there is every chance this story is true

Gone that is why you go into I kea and eat meatballs and look out of their giant window!

Be thankful it wasn't the Asda cafe nearby

Why the chuff would you get barred??