To have refused to remove our coats from free chair in the pub

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We were out earlier in a local pub for lunch. There was five of us sitting around a table, with our jackets, cardigans, elderly person's walking stick etc on the sixth chair.

A family of four came in and went to a table for four behind us. The daughter, aged about six, put her stuffed toy on one of the chairs and then kicked off that there was no seat for her.

Mother then came over to our table and asked us to move our stuff off the spare seat so her daughter could have it. We pointed out that there was a spare seat at their table and she said 'oh the giraffe is using that chair'. We replied that our coats etc were using our spare chair and she went off in a huff.

WWBU. Obviously, if the seat had genuinely been needed we would have moved all our stuff.

I'm sitting here in a thick jumper, it's been raining and several evenings over the last month I've debated with myself whether I should put the heating on.

Horribly cold where I am.

Bloody freezing here. Had coats, boots and a scarf on today.

fwiw (re needing coats) I once posted here complaining about an entitled "I pay my road tax, I can park where I like" driver parking inconsiderately (across 2 spaces) outside my house, when it was raining & I had a bootful of shopping to bring in.
Various posters said I must be making it up because it wasn't raining where they were
Anyway OP, no, YWNBU at all.

FanjoForTheMammaries. My child is not entitled or spoilt, thank you very much.
Are you the parent with the pet giraffe? Did he still get lunch?

Yy to Victor being a creepy child

SkintAsASkintThing great post

YANBU

On our most recent meal out with family, DH ended up sitting with bunny on his lap. Bunny was DS4's +1. Honest . We wouldn't have dreamed of getting bunny her own seat, and absolutely not asking someone else putting their own spare chair to greater use than the one being requested.

YW deffo NBU. Bloody kids shouldn't be in the pub anyway, they should be sitting outside on the step with a bottle of pop and a bag of crisps, like they were in my day.

(Guess who had their pub lunch aborted today, because of an unexpected outbreak of entitled children and performance parenting?)

FanjoForTheMammaries ah apologies Fanjo. Saw that post but couldn't find the one prior to it to link the comment 💐 for the misunderatanding

Skint, I agree wholeheartedly - I am also a mother of a child with SN and think you are spot on.

OP, YANBU, it was a ridiculous request.

We are raising a generation of kids who get their own way far too much . Kids are so entitled.

I'm so very tired of reading this kind of shite on here, only the biggest dick heads I know in real life come out with this stuff.

To address the OP, I wouldn't have moved my stuff either but one silly mother does not an entire ruined generation make.

Can't believe the mother had the cheek to make such an outlandish request, let alone huff and puff when she was turned down. What is wrong with some people Kids are okay in pubs if they can behave but if they are the type to kick off if their inanimate stuffed object doesn't get seat then parents should take them to a more child oriented place.

If you've met one child with autism then you've met one child with autism....

But this thread isn't about SN, it's about a short conversation in a pub.

This is why I love Mumsnet.

You can post about the most batshit crazy scenarios, and you'll have a significant minority come on with completely straight faces, and earnestly defend it.

Real life is so much more boring.

Too true Dowager

Honestly, you sound horrible.

Honestly, you sound horrible

Is there a poster called Honestly on this thread?

Otherwise, more specificity is needed.

Sorry, sorry, sorry for this but does every thread regarding entitled parents/children have to go down the autism road?
Yes, there are many autistic people.
Yes, there are far far too many entitled parents/children.
I'm sure if the (entitled) child in question had any sn then the mother should have made that clear on request BUT as pp parents of sn DC have stated, they would pre-arrange an extra seat/make other arrangements.
Also, OP has said she would have given up the storage seat for basically anything other than a bloody stuffed toy.
I do not think an was the case here, just yet again more entitled people teaching their offspring to be even more entitled.

I do not think sn