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

OK, so supposed the OP returned the tray to the original table, only for it to come back - what next, a food fight?

Yes, yes, a food fight!

First, you should have kicked off with an obligatory tray swatting, then immediately had at her with the tomato soup and cream buns OP. You missed the perfect opportunity.

Having frequented this particular establishment many, many times, I can absolutely believe this.

It's the naice people who behave the worst.

I did actually retaliate once when someone queue jumped blatantly at the omelette station. I was heavily pregnant and hangry at the time. It went down in family folklaw as "the John Lewis Incident".

Even my dear departed maiden great-aunt became possessed in the place. I've seen her barge fellow octogenarians with her wheely-walker to get a window seat!

Dp ( born in Soton) told me that he suspect that the person ditching the tray was from a rival city......

in M&S cafe the other day a woman in front of me was standing in the q dithering. the woman behind the counter was trying to get her attention to take her order and she kept failing to see her. I very gently and politely touched her on the shoulder and said excuse me, the lady's ready to take your order. She wgacjed me on the arm with her stick, screamed abuse at me and the lady for a full.minute then stormed out. I'm hard pressed to decide who behaves worse, the hoi polloi in Asda or the elderly ladies in M & S and Waitrose.

This happened to we elderly people in Wisley.So taken aback.
Dh got up and removed to the used tray station.I was too nervous to say or start anything.Tray dumper quite oblivious.
Wish we had a stick foragogo.Hindsight a wonderful thing and the episode still makes me use Mumsnet languages in my head.

. Cheeky bitch. People such as her mostly, I don't doubt. Go on about teenagers being rude. Mind you to say . She was rude.
Is the biggest understatement ever

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Anyway OP I have a troupe of mortified teenagers who are embarrassed if I so much as speak to anyone out in public so I understand your lack of reaction! You really should have shoved it back at her though when your son's head was turned

Also what's with people saying you should have asked the staff to sort it out?! WTF?

Emphasising what they're saying I think.

the elderly people in m&s and waitrose or john lewis are by far the worst behaved.

So amny times dd (10 just) has been talked over, pushed past to get served before her, when shes been stood there waiting to pay for a chocolate lolly after finishing sandwiches in these places, yet the 2 times we've eaten in asda café, people have let her go in front!

Had you inadvertently bagged the clear table the old cow had had her eye on? It's the only reason I can think of that she would put all the dirty stuff on your table. Even though she's still clearly a few voluvents short of a buffet.

Round here she would have been beaten half to death with a teaspoon.

I might have challenged her to a duel with a toothpick YouTheCat

I'm from soton too (in fact I can see John Lewis from my window, just). There are a LOT of rude people in Southampton, I've been shoved, pushed, shouted at for walking past somebody, when my son was a baby my pram got pushed and it tipped into the road. Not one person helped me. A couple of weeks ago I was walking with my son, I got shoved past, my son fell over and my phone broke. The bloke didn't even look back at me even when I shouted.

So I'm not surprised about your tray incident. Tons of people seem to think they're royalty when in fact they're rude and snooty and/or chavvy as f*. Next time say something, or if you don't have the confidence, tell a staff member. I bet they would have spoke on your behalf

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They've got a bad case of shatneritis? Sorry. I always hear. Over punctuation. In a Shatner voice