Right this has pissed me off since Friday. my friend is being unreasonable (( with diagrams ))

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On Friday we were in a local cafe, there are two comfy sofas (( Exhibit A )) and we sat down around the same time as two older ladies. We sat chatting for around 10 minutes when a third lady turned up to meet the other two sat down (( exhibit B ))

She immediately started stripping around because there wasn't room for her to.sit down with her friends, glaring at me and my friend, shaking her head and tutting and making a big show.of grabbing a chair from across the room and bringing it over. Even her friends were visibally shocked at her rudeness. Had this not happened I'd have got up.when I clocked she was with the other 2 and moved but this behaviour just made me want to.grind my arse into.the sofa and wax lyrical about how comfy it was.

But what did my friend do when I was in the loo ?? She gathered our stuff together and moved to a smaller table AND gave the lady our free chocolates. Basically killed her with kindness 😑😑😑
(( exhibit C ))

Anyways, would I have been unreasonable to lie across the sofa and feed myself chocolate cake because of the ladies rudeness ??

If it was Mapp & Lucia. Your friend was fiendishly clever, she was establishing the high moral ground, being both patronisingly generous and simultaneously demonstrating the patheticness the rude old lady ... even if the rude old lady didn't understand it.. establishing the rude old lady as totally lacking in perception.

Either that or she owes you some chocs. Love the drawings!

How old are you GROW up.

Bus not us

I think you're missing the element of humour in the OP, Mummy2017.

Excellent diagrams!

Horrid woman did not deserve the seat or your chocolates. I would be very disappointed with friend but I have a friend who is uncontrollably nice and would have done the same (probably even wait till I was at the loo too!).

You are not unreasonable, I suggest further therapeutic drawing of nasty pitchfork lady getting her comeuppance!

I think your friend did the right thing. It would certainly make the old lady reflect on her behaviour in the future

I had the rage directed at me recently for my sofa usage. Went to a small bookshop cafe where most of the seating was small tables. When I went in the only (L shaped) soda was in use by two middle aged guys who were finishing a meal. It was the only area i could sit with my pram nearby so asked nicely if I could sit on the end of sofa so as to be out of everyone else's way. It also meant I can lie my 6 month old down and still have a coffee whilst he had a kick around.

Anyway, the two gentlemen had a conversation we me and left so I moved to the middle of the sofa as i was expecting friends and wanted a better area for my son. At least two couples came in and wandered up to the table, huffed and puffed. One stopped and stared at me. One moved my pram and pretended to look at a poster behind it. Then they sat on the table next to the sofa before my3 friends and DH joined us and then could clearly see we were going to be there for a while and moved themselves elsewhere.

And yes they were more elderly couples!

Your post is worthy of entry to the Turner Prize!

I love the diagrams too.
But there are several posts on here which are really ageist (and indeed sexist). Lighthearted thread doesn't make that any less so. Brasty makes a good point further down.

Spoog rude, there's no need for that

I like to think I would have dug my heels in when rude lady stropped and settled myself squarely and smugly on that sofa, affecting a complete failure to catch her drift whilst gazing at her with mildly quizzical concern.

Evening folks. We just wanted to remind folk that we really don't condone casual ageism. We have just made a couple of deletions on this thread. We know there's a case sometimes for including someone's age in a description of events (in this case the OP's friend felt that the ladies' ages impacted on her decision on how to react), but generally we tend to think that age is not a relevant factor, and we especially want to discourage generalisations and myths about the way in which older people do and don't behave. If you could bear that in mind when posting we'd be most grateful. Thanks!

Love the drawings, hilarious. For that alone, I'm on your side haha. Plus, the other lady was v rude without any reason to be!

Zombie thread

Is it really a zombie if it's barely a month old?