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Who is wrong? (Very petty)

116 replies

InAPickleToday · 31/12/2017 12:11

A three seater sofa with a windowsill to its left. Person A sits on the left side of the sofa and uses it to put their drinks on it. Person B sits on the right side of the sofa and puts their drink on the floor, down the side of the sofa.

Person A has knocked B's drink over a fair few times now and person B gets angrier each time. Saying A should remember that their is a drink on the floor. Person A thinks B should put their drink on the coffee table or fireplace 3 steps away, a drinknon the floor is bound to be knocked over. Person B says this is unfair. Person A says B is being lazy.

Who is right?

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44PumpLane · 31/12/2017 12:25

Agree with above 2 posters

DeepanKrispanEven · 31/12/2017 12:25

The room needs to be rearranged so that you can have decent table space near the sofa.

RedDogsBeg · 31/12/2017 12:25

Person B, placing a drink on the floor in a heavy traffic/access area is asking for it to be knocked over repeatedly.

Re-arrange the furniture or buy a very small side table just for drinks at that end of the sofa.

BearsDontDigOnDancing · 31/12/2017 12:26

Person A knows the cup is there, how hard is it to watch out for it, if it is by the side of the sofa, to be within reaching distance of person B sitting, it has to be up against the sofa really, so how is person A managing to kick it over.

I would hate to have to get up and walk 3 steps every time I want a sip of tea, because person A, cannot watch where they put their feet. Yet they get to sit and sip to their hearts content.

If you cannot have a table to the side of the sofa, if it is a 3 seater with only 2 sitting on it, just get a small table to put in front of the unused middle space for person b.

Wineasaurous · 31/12/2017 12:26

Why not hold the drink?

Karigan1 · 31/12/2017 12:26

Get a side table.

Smeaton · 31/12/2017 12:26

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gingergenius · 31/12/2017 12:27

Omg @iklboo and @Straycatblue - genius! I want one of those!!!

Bluntness100 · 31/12/2017 12:27

You're both being twats. But you shouldn't put drinks down where people walk past. Just buy a little side table.

Shadow666 · 31/12/2017 12:27

We have a rule of no drinks on the floor. We have some small stools to use to put cups on.

hmcAsWas · 31/12/2017 12:28

I think person B is right and person A is a dopey mare if s(he) keeps knocking over a cup which they know to be there

That's a genius piece of furniture Straycatblue. I don't like coffee tables as they are in the way, but that's neat and to the side

Jaxhog · 31/12/2017 12:28

Both. Person B shouldn't put drink on the floor and person A should be more careful. Solution? Don't give either of them a drink!

RhiannonOHara · 31/12/2017 12:32

A is being clumsy and dopey. B is kind of making the best of a bad situation but is being a bit irritable. If there's really no room for even a tiny table, get a beanbag tray thingy that sits on the sofa.

fuzzywuzzy · 31/12/2017 12:32

If person B ours their drink close against the sofa and person A keeps knocking it over.

Then person A needs to be more careful, or swap seats with person B. Or all drinks need to be confined to the kitchen.

Loonoonow · 31/12/2017 12:34

Person A should look where they are going or give up the window sill seat.

Notso · 31/12/2017 12:35

I'd think there needs to be a no drinks without lids the living room policy.

ToftheB · 31/12/2017 12:35

The person with the good seat, next to the windowsill, needs to take responsibility for both drinks, passing person B’s drink back and forth as needed. That’s how it works in our house. Nobody wants to be getting up every two minutes for a sip of their drink, it’s inhumane.

LilQueenie · 31/12/2017 12:37

A should take responsibility. Once is an accident, more than that they should be aware there is a drink there from experience. A is now passing blame to B.

ChristmasAtSquiffanys · 31/12/2017 12:39

Baby's no spill cup for B?

KioskKeithForPresident · 31/12/2017 12:42

Both

It's daft to put a drink on the floor. Agreed.
But once Person A had been warned several times by Person B, Person A should just look out for it - assuming only one occassion and visiting etc.

If this is a permenant situation then you need to address the table issue as others have said.

Whinesalot · 31/12/2017 12:43

I don't know but as person c I'd be bloody annoyed a drink was being spilled all the time. They need to sort a solution.

Actually scrap that. Person b is a twat for putting it there in the first place, let alone multiple times.

52FestiveRoad · 31/12/2017 12:43

Why is A constantly getting up from the sofa though? Are you person A and are you responding to a crying child upstairs or something? If so then you need to get person B to get up as well. ( Probably projecting but this is how it happens in our house, I always end up going to check when kids cry out at night)

YetAnotherSpartacus · 31/12/2017 12:43

Person A is wrong and needs to check their windowsill privilege as well as watch where they are going.

So which are you OP?

mummmy2017 · 31/12/2017 12:45

Have you seen the tables that goes BEHIND the sofa, it's thin thing, but enough that B can place a drink there and not on the floor,
No one loses face and B is happy, and A won't knock the drink over...

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