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Should she have movrd?

52 replies

CallMeLolita · 02/07/2018 22:47

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2018/07/02/sunbathing-woman-refuses-move-couples-wedding-photos-7677744/amp/

Sum up, woman sunbathing in park. Wedding party come along to have photos.

Ask her to move multiple times and she refused for the first 10 minutes.

She was there first.

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JedediahBila · 02/07/2018 22:55

I would have moved myself, but if they're not willing to pay for a private location, they have to accept the fact that members of the public may be there and are under no obligation to move.

ConferencePear · 02/07/2018 22:58

A bit mean spirited not to.

beachygirl · 02/07/2018 23:02

I think it depends on how she was approached. If they came over all entitled and demanded the space, I might have dug my heels in!

PrincessMargaret · 02/07/2018 23:09

If she was there first they can bog off.

longwayoff · 02/07/2018 23:12

Ah Tiswas. "we'll sing you a song, the bucket of water song" . . .

donquixotedelamancha · 02/07/2018 23:14

I think it depends on how she was approached.

Given the fact that they seem to have just set up shop around her and given the comments about 'she should have known' not to use that spot, I'd bet quite a lot of money they were rude.

Nobody is that awkward unless they are pissed off. It always stuns me that some people don't realise when you are asking a favour you have to actually ask, instead of assuming.

Quimby · 02/07/2018 23:15

Depends how they asked
The fact they pestered her for ten minutes might be an indicator that they weren’t really asking, they were telling.

SouthWestmom · 02/07/2018 23:17

Hmm based on the entitled voice in the video I suspect they just arrived, set up around her and expected her to fuck off.

littlemissdynamite · 02/07/2018 23:17

LOL how cringe! I would have moved. May have been a bit sniffy about it, but no way would I have stayed there. I'd have felt awkward!

Quimby · 02/07/2018 23:17

Having read the article the wedding party seem like absolute cunts to a man

littlemissdynamite · 02/07/2018 23:18

If they were being entitled and demanding though then good on her for staying put.

alibongo5 · 02/07/2018 23:18

Why should she move from a public place? (though I probably wouldn't have had the nerve to hold out...)

HyacinthsBucket70 · 02/07/2018 23:21

I'd say there is a bit more to the story than is being told.

It really annoys me that people think they are "entitled" to an area of public space because it is their wedding day. Don't be so tight and book a decent venue if you don't want sunbathers in your photos!

GruciusMalfoy · 02/07/2018 23:25

I'll take a punt that they didn't approach her and ask her politely if she'd mind moving for a few minutes while they took photos. I don't trust anyone who'd make a big deal of this by going to the press.

cariadlet · 02/07/2018 23:30

I wouldn't have had the guts to stay put with all those people around me. She was there first so was entitled to stay. If they asked really politely, making it clear that she would be doing them a favour, then it would have been nice for her to have moved.

But if they "asked" in a condescending or arrogant way, assuming that they had the right to commandeer a public space just because they were a wedding party then she was absolutely right to stay put.

DerelictWreck · 02/07/2018 23:30

If you look at the photos she's not even in the way! They came across as so entitled in the articles about it as well

SemperIdem · 02/07/2018 23:33

I can’t help but admire her, nerves of steel!

I also think the wedding party were likely rude to her.

LannieDuck · 02/07/2018 23:33

They were rude. She was there first, minding her own business, and it sounds as if she moved in 10 mins anyway!

TheBigFatMermaid · 02/07/2018 23:47

Sometimes entitled people need to be taught they are not actually entitled! Their parents should have taught them, but this woman at least tried to where they failed!

MidniteScribbler · 02/07/2018 23:51

I bet the clue is in how she was 'asked'.

Last year we were having a picnic at a big park and a couple arrived to have wedding photos. We had over 50 of the same breed of dog there, so the bride and groom got a few photos with all of the dogs sitting around them, then we took all the dogs for a walk around the lake while they got their photos, then we came back, the limo driver produced some bottles of champagne and glasses from the car, we all toasted the bride and groom, they left, we finished our picnic. That's how shared spaces should work.

MadMaryBoddington · 03/07/2018 00:16

You were having a picnic with 50 dogs?

Shumpalumpa · 03/07/2018 01:05

This is a great stand-off. Woman refuses to reverse out of one-way tunnel because she has right of way.

metro.co.uk/2015/09/24/woman-and-elderly-man-in-40-minute-standoff-on-single-lane-road-as-woman-refuses-to-move-car-5406050/

KeiTeNgeNge · 03/07/2018 01:21

Fair enough too if she had right of way and they were the same distance into the tunnel. It says though that the elderly man was much further into the tunnel so she should have given way until he was through. Sunbather absolutely should have held her ground as it was a public space and she wasn’t asked nicely.

planetclom · 03/07/2018 01:23

When you watch a video by the "wronged" party and you think "really" you know they are the most entitled people ever.
Well done lady.
Shared places are that if someone is there before you, be nice.

iogo · 03/07/2018 01:35

Just saw this in the Sun when I sent to check out what they'd stolen from the MIL text thread. They sounded like entitled arses. I'm glad the girl refused to move. I get she should have done if asked nicely.

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