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

@Patroclus I went to a rugby club to watch the world cup final. Lots of complaints about swearing in front of children. Was a bit well what do you expect

My husband has the loudest voice. I can never lose him in big shops because I can hear him bellowing from one end to the bloody other. No amount of telling him to stop fucking shouting helps.

If you were half as loud as him then I feel for those people in Spoons

You shouldn't be so loud that people in another area can hear you.

Yeah, you can't take a baby to a pub and expect people to be quiet.

But they're probably a bit frazzled and wishing for a bit of peace from the baby, so I'd probably just move tables if I were you.

To be fair the Wetherspoons near me is full of families at tea-time and seems to market towards being a family-friendly restaurant during daytime with plenty of high-chairs, colouring sheets and free crayons, kids menus which include smoothies and yo-yo bears etc. Then after 8pm it kind of reverts back into a ‘pub’ for drinking and adults.

Should you actually be discussing work loudly in the pub in terms of confidentiality breach?

You win the most mumsnet cliche post of the day

I long for the days when pubs were adults only

They were being ridiculous. It’s a pub not a night nursery. People get loud in pubs.

You were probably talking too loud and getting on their nerves. The tables in our local shitty weatherspoons are really close together. Try using your indoor voice next time. 😄

32% actually think you’re being unreasonable. I swear this planet gets loopier and loopier ever day.

Everyday not ever day

My sister is incredibly loud. I actually have to avoid her sometimes because she makes my ears bleed!

In my town certain pubs/bars are pretty much adult only at any time, but for many chain pubs their marketing model is basically family dining during the day/earlier evening then a drinking pub later at night where it completely changes atmosphere and becomes 18+. Don’t really understand the ‘yuck at taking a baby to spoons’ comment when my local one is literally full of mums/pushchairs and high chairs during the day time, ditto other chain type pubs.

I prefer louds voices to digital devices any day

I’d probably have preferred a crying baby in a pub than listening to 2 ranting women (on the vino and likely swearing too perhaps?)....and that’s very unusual for me.

I'm sure if the baby was crying throughout you would have been pissed off by the noise! I'm sorry you had a rough day but think,probably you were just a bit loud and ranty. I'd also caution against bitching about work loudly in a public place - one of my employees once overheard two people from another company complain very loudly about their boss and a decision he'd made. It was a bit awkward next time we had to work with him. I've also been on an early morning train from the south west to London which always seems full of NHS employees......have overheard some very interesting conversations on that one!

They were probably tired of having to speak louder so they could hear each other instead of you and your friend loud rant/passionate conversation. Sitting near very loud people is really distracting to others. You were out in the late afternoon/early evening not a Saturday night. Use your indoor voices!

It's a pub, not a fucking library.

Babies needing to sleep are the parents responsibility, not fellow customer’s responsibility. If it’s too loud, they need to move or leave.

You were being loud, annoying and no doubt they could hear every word of your conversation. Would you want to go out for a meal and sit next to someone like you?

If I were being a drunk lairy prat in a decent pub, I would expect raised eyebrows and maybe a quiet word. I’ve been party to or witness of many such fab nights and afternoons over the years. Happy times. Never been kicked out of a pub yet.

However, being a magnet for drunk lairy prats is how, in my area, Weatherspoons makes it’s not insubstantial profits. If I were to go there (wouldn’t happen), I would expect the lairyness.

Being told to ‘tone it down - the baby‘ in ANY PUB would make me crank it the fuck up.

I obviously can't comment on your specific situation as I wasn't there. But the other day I was sitting in a pub and a girl next to me was talking so loud, basically shouting to the point where I couldn't hear what my partner was saying. Other people kept glancing over at her as well. I've encountered this in other places as well, coffee shops, trains etc. I've no idea why people have such little self awareness and why they can't talk at a volume so as to not disturb others!

maddiemookins16mum

I’d probably have preferred a crying baby in a pub than listening to 2 ranting women (on the vino and likely swearing too perhaps?)....and that’s very unusual for me.

Not sure how many times I have to say we did not swear and had 1 glass of wine

It sounds like you were being bloody irritating. Being quieter would be perfectly easy for you, so why not just comply with their polite request? If someone near me had to ask me to keep it down I'd be mortified, not mardy about it.

Weatherspoons IME are always loud in the after work slot. It is not somewhere for a quiet meal.