Did I overreact to incident in restaurant?

[fatgirlonthebeach]

Currently on holiday in Greece and was out last night for a meal with DP. It's quite normal here for cats to wander around the outside tables hoping to be given a bit of food. I like cats but I don't feed them as I know some taverna owners don't like it. We had finished our meal when a couple sat on the table next to us and started to feed the cats. I didn't have a problem with this until one poor cat started throwing up right underneath my chair. It really upset me and I didn't want to stay sitting where I was with cat sick on the floor so I told DP we would have to move to another table to finish our drinks.

The couple who had fed the cat saw me trying to move and heard me say (to my DP) that it was disgusting and I wasn't happy to stay sitting where I was. The couple glared at me as if I had gone mad and was making a big deal of it (whilst they happily carried on eating). I had a bit of a job getting away from our table as we were sat in a corner and the couple had put their bags on their spare chair which was blocking my exit. They made no attempt to move the chair to help me get out and carried on looking at me as if I was overreacting.

DP and I moved to another table and finished our drinks. The taverna owner came over to ask why we had moved so I explained and he apologised but I didn't blame him at all and smiled happily and said it was no problem.

DP seems to think that I overreacted and that we should have stayed at our table. He also wanted to order another round of drinks but I really wasn't happy to stay sitting where I was. The cat-feeders clearly thought I was bonkers.

Did I overreact? Would you have stayed sitting there with cat sick under your chair?

Cat sick smells so the question is, why wouldn't you move?

On the other hand, I'm not this warrants a whole thread?

I would have moved but I wouldn’t have made a fuss about it. You made an unnecessary scene and clearly made the (kind) cat feeders feel uncomfortable. I always feed stray cats and dogs when I’m in Greece. Poor fuckers.

Yanbu

You did the right thing
Cat sick is smelly and disgusting

I'm surprised that your dp didn't stand up for you ... maybe you are with a coward?

No. People shouldn’t feed the cats. The cat situation is cruel. The card need to be neutered.

Cats.

Yuk, you did not overreact at all!!!!

@EleanorReally there was no signs where I was staying thanks, I will always feed the cats. That said OP of course you should move if you felt uncomfortable, they glated becuase they felt judged, don't worry about it.

YNBU for moving. The couple were NBU for feeding the cat. The whole thing sounds like a real non event.

Passive aggressive reaction. If you were really that upset by a little sick, you should have just informed the staff and they’d have cleaned it up. If they didn’t want customers to feed the cats, they would have a sign up or told you when you sat down. You probably embarrassed the other couple and a smile at them and a polite request to allow you past might have helped you. You could have made up an excuse about having overly sensitive sense of smell or something rather than just assume they overheard your (passive aggressive) conversation with your partner.

Get over it anyway, it’s old news and the other couple have probably forgotten it!

YANBU. If a cat had been sick near me I would have been sick myself. I’ve a very weak stomach and that would have ruined my meal. Finished or not.

I’d of move, my partner would have moved, my children would have moved. Eating near sick is just plain weird

i would have said move your bag i'm moving away from cat VOMIT!
loudly!

I love cats, but I would have moved too. Tbh though I'd have dumped husband to go tickle them and tried to resist the urge to feed them. But yes, if one vomited under my chair I would have moved.

A cat spewing up under my feet? No way would I have stayed at that table.
YANBU x

fuck that i would have moved, and i would have been dry reaching too, there would have been no doubt why i was moving, i have real issues with vomit and i wouldn't have been able to stop myself dry reaching, ( i cant even hold it back if the kids vomit, or even things like cleaning the fridge out, even if the food isnt bad i still dry reach)

TheSerenDipitY what the bloody hell is ‘dry reaching’?? It’s ‘dry retching’.

A lot of precious people on here. Honestly, if you feed your cat a good diet, the sick doesn’t smell. If idiots are feeding stray cats olives or whatever else- there’s the problem. So if it smells or you don’t like it, move without making a big fuss.

OP the fact that you say the couple were glaring at you the whole time probably also means that you were looking at them too much to begin with! They likely thought you were glaring at them (which you may have been doing anyway, consciously or not). It sounds like you made a massive drama over a non-event. If I were there I would have felt embarrassed watching you trying to hurdle the chairs to escape a bit of cat puke (given that they’re strays and cats have small stomachs, it’s hardly going to be a mountain of sick is it?!).

YANBU or dramatic!

Ugh! A cat vomiting under your seat while you're eating!!!

I think we need to introduce the Mumsnetters who bleach the air before they breath it to the Mumsnetters who think moving away from literal vomit is overreacting.

As the owner of two elderly spewing moggies, I am something of a connoisseur, and there is almost no form of vomit that is acceptable to sit over (I would potentially make exception for a weeny bit of spit up phlegm).

Honestly, if you feed your cat a good diet, the sick doesn’t smell

The nose blindness of cat owners is astounding. Of course vomit smells. It’s vomit. Even if a cat eats premium meat it’s still ingested meat it is chucking up which, I’m afraid, stinks

I suspect these are the same posters who say their houses don’t smell of cat

I used to have a cat. His vomit definitely had bad odour and the carpet had to be cleaned where he'd vomited, usually I'd be tracking the hairball by smell from the front door to the scene of the crime. He wouldn't ever vomit up a hairball on the 90% of the flooring that was wood/ tile of course, that would be very low class, he could only vomit on the carpet that was luckily washable with bleach.