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AIBU?

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TWO unreasonable people for the price of one

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B1rdonawire · 09/05/2017 11:56

In a well-known coffee chain rhyming with Hosta, I witnessed the following (as did agog DD):

Younger woman feeding small child in highchair, large ride-on toddler motorbike thing sticking half-out from under table; older woman wishing to pass her, carrying tray of coffee. There was room to walk past (just) but it was very tight.

OW: I can't get past
YW: I'm feeding my child
OW: But I can't get past
YW: Well what do you want me to do about it?
OW: Move your things out of the way

Within twenty seconds this had become shouting on both sides:
YW: I've got every right to be here, you can't tell me to move, you are so rude you didn't ask me nicely, why should I move for you etc etc
OW: You should move out of the way, you're blocking my way, you should leave the bike outside, I'm not the one who's rude...

So, WIBU to watch in just as much fascination as DD we don't get out much ? Or, I suppose, more sensibly, who WBU out of older woman and younger woman? OW could perhaps have gone round the other way. YW could definitely have been more helpful and tucked her stuff out the way.

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notanevilstepmother · 10/05/2017 08:38

Lovely diagram. A* for that.

However unless you said very very very loudly to DD in a proper mummy voice
"aren't those ladies being naughty, shouting at each other, please don't be upset my precious poppet"

Then YABU because that would have been the icing on the cake for the only entertainment those poor hard working Hosta Hoffee employees get.

Grin Brew

StarryIllusion · 10/05/2017 09:12

Meh. They were both being knobheads imo. I would have asked once then kicked it out the way but I would have asked politely.

rightwhine · 10/05/2017 09:17

They are both in the wrong but the mother was more in the wrong.

rightwhine · 10/05/2017 09:18

Do two wrongs make a right though?

RiversrunWoodville · 10/05/2017 14:00

Excellent diagram!

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