I've just been told to be quiet.... in wetherspoons!

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Called off for quick drink with friend/colleague in spoons (dont judge me, it's cheap and it has an app). Very shitty day, letting off a bit of steam, quite 'passionately' discussing a certain management discussion.
The table next to us are eating, and have a wee baby with them. I would guess around 6 months? After a particularly robust rant, we've just been told off for waking the baby.
They were there first, we are prob a bit annoying, but taking your baby to a pub then complaining it gets woken up!!
I'm very

Taking a baby to Wetherspoons ... they’re usually full of pissed students or old soaks that have been there since opening timr

You've said 'passionately' and 'robust' but neither of those things are likely to wake a baby.

Why don't you just say 'loud' if you mean loud?

Probably the parents were tired of listening to your 'robust/passionate' rant and found it easier to blame it on the baby being woken.

Taking a baby to Wetherspoons ... they’re usually full of pissed students or old soaks that have been there since opening timr

The one by us has a real family feel to it.

Anyway I think yabu, you admit you were probably a bit irritating. Why should anyone have to put up with that next to them? It doesn't matter that it was a family with a baby.

I agree with Butchy. They were pissed off with having to listen to you whilst trying to eat their dinner in peace.

Did you have the option of sitting elsewhere?

Were you in the 'family' bit?

OP that’s mad.

I mean FFS

Let’s be quiet in case we wake the baby, IN A PUB.

This is what’s wrong with the world!

The wether spoons near us is full of families at tea time.

What you mean is, you were being loud and asked to be quiet. You were probably pissing people off who didnt have babies with them, as well.

You must have been very loud and annoying.

If you’ve been told off there you must have been really bloody loud and annoying

Keep confidential discussions such as slagging off your colleagues to quietly or privately, you’ve no idea who might hear you

@BigSandyBalls2015 or skint professionals. Tbf it's one of the better Spoons.

@WorraLiberty yes I mean loud but not in a pissed up way. We've each had one glass, just both been a bit ranty so volume maybe has gone up but not in a drink/obnoxious way. Just in a ranty way

I wouldn’t go to a Wetherspoons.
But then I wouldn’t expect to be disturbed by someone “ranting” in a pub. They weren’t expecting you to whisper. Just Use your indoor voice!

Waking the baby in a pub That's amazing.

It was nothing to do with the baby, that was just a convenient excuse to shut you up. You were being loud and irritating. They didn’t want to hear any more of your passionate feelings about your management discussion.

It's actually one of my favourite pastimes listening to the conversations of follow Wetherspoons customers.

We often use funny lines forever more to amuse ourselves.

For example a couple having an argument female raises her voice "what's kick off for?"

It is used a lot for anybody that starts to moan about anything even slightly around my household now

Honestly wasnt louder than the next table being able to hear us. Wasnt in a family area (do Spoons have them?). No issue until baby started crying, then a curt comment of 'could you keep it down you've just woken my child's

We like going for breakfast in spoons and regularly meet friends in one. It’s not massively kid friendly but cheap.
Having a baby with you in spoons is just tough luck. Spoons is noisy. They are being massively unreadable.

Who told you off?

I think putting the baby bit of the story aside, if I was being overly loud when people were trying to eat or enjoy a drink, I'd probably just say "Whoops, sorry" and not pay it another thought.

But PPs are probably right in that they weren't the only table you were probably disturbing.

I think after about 8pm, extra loud people in pubs become more par for the course and it would be unlikely that anyone would have said anything to you.

Ah x post.

You must have been really loud to wake a baby in an already fairly loud setting.

I’m not sure it’s ok to be obnoxiously loud just because you’re in Spoons!

Maybe you were being loud and obnoxious? Some people have no self awareness and their loud conversations just over power everyone else, it's really not very pleasant for others - baby or no baby.

I love a Wetherspoons for a cheap and cheerful evening, but I wouldn’t take a baby there.

Yuck to taking a baby into Wetherspoons and it’s a pub-they have to expect noise.

I used to take my baby to our local spoons (at lunchtime) because it was noisy and my children both slept better with noise, they were unreasonable.

They have every right to be in the spoons but are stupid if they expect it to be a good napping environment for a baby that doesn't like lots of sound.