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Original poster

To refuse to move from fast food table

93 replies

curlymom · 23/04/2022 20:36

So I ordered my food and sat down on a free table next to a plug as my phone needed charging. Fast food associate said he will bring my food right over.
five mins later an old lady said she was intending to sit there. I said it’s ok you can sit opposite on spare chair or on empty table next to me. She said no and told me to move. I said no as I am needing to charge my phone. Other random old woman interfered and told her i am selfish and she could sit on table next to me. To be honest if she asked nicely I would have moved but if there are spare tables why should I? AIBU to refuse??

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SoggyPaper · 23/04/2022 20:59

curlymom · 23/04/2022 20:55

I have seen people do that in London. Definitely people are getting much more entitled

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Bloody hell.

unless it’s the seats at the front you’re supposed to leave for people less able to stand etc.

but not just deciding you like the first row of the slight higher tier of seating on the left hand side (window seat) so that is your seat and it’s ok to tell other people to move.

Giraffesandbottoms · 23/04/2022 21:01

YANBU. I went to Legoland, found a table and left it and came back and there were people there. So we had lost the table - my own stupid fault for leaving it.

that is how fast food restaurants work!

Batshittery · 23/04/2022 21:02

SoggyPaper · 23/04/2022 20:52

not that reserving tables is even a thing in fast food restaurants. You don’t phone up Burger King and reserve a table for 1 at 12:30.

😂

WiddlinDiddlin · 23/04/2022 21:07

I've asked folk to move from the only table I can use.. in some places that is limited to one or two tables. I have also offered to share on the rare occasion two of us have needed the one suitable table.

This doesn't sound like its the case here.. so she can chuff off and sit somewhere else!

DaisyQuakeJohnson · 23/04/2022 21:11

I feel this thread needs a diagram Grin

If you order without reserving a table, then how did you know the table number to give the server? And if you could reserve the table before giving your order then why can't the woman? perhaps she had given that table number too.

Original poster
curlymom · 23/04/2022 21:18

DaisyQuakeJohnson · 23/04/2022 21:11

I feel this thread needs a diagram Grin

If you order without reserving a table, then how did you know the table number to give the server? And if you could reserve the table before giving your order then why can't the woman? perhaps she had given that table number too.

You can order at tills and take food to table or on the app and add a table number 😂

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Georgeskitchen · 23/04/2022 21:19

yanbu
Tough tits you snooze you lose
Old woman snoozed and lost 🤣🤣😍

MrsSkylerWhite · 23/04/2022 21:20

Confused. You were waiting for your food to be brought to you whilst charging your phone. Ergo, you were there before the other customer.

what’s the issue?

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curlymom · 23/04/2022 21:23

MrsSkylerWhite · 23/04/2022 21:20

Confused. You were waiting for your food to be brought to you whilst charging your phone. Ergo, you were there before the other customer.

what’s the issue?

She was ordering at the counter and then arrived expecting me to move.

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JudgeJ · 23/04/2022 21:24

I think the woman was unreasonable though my OH died at the start of lockdown and as we are now able to have some normality in our lives I am just realising some of the problems his loss causes, when we went into a cafe he would usually sit at a table and I would go and get the drinks etc., he would spill things. Now I have to get my drink then worry about finding a table, if it looks a reasonable place I may leave a coat there first.

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curlymom · 23/04/2022 21:25

JudgeJ · 23/04/2022 21:24

I think the woman was unreasonable though my OH died at the start of lockdown and as we are now able to have some normality in our lives I am just realising some of the problems his loss causes, when we went into a cafe he would usually sit at a table and I would go and get the drinks etc., he would spill things. Now I have to get my drink then worry about finding a table, if it looks a reasonable place I may leave a coat there first.

Sorry about OH and the pain of thinking about the past. X

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Lago1 · 23/04/2022 21:35

She sounds like my 5 year old! Who always says 'I was looking at that first' if one of his brothers dare to take the cake / donut / whatever it may be that he was intending to have 🤣

needmorethanthis · 23/04/2022 21:37

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PAFMO · 23/04/2022 21:37

FlibbertyGiblets · 23/04/2022 20:57

Not sure the relevance of being an 'old lady'? or the other 'old woman'? Have a think about why you want to show the opposition, so to speak, in a different light. Silly old dear, stupid old ladies, querulous and contrary, entitled old biddy, that kind of thing. Your story is not so spicy if it involved three women, is it? Casual ageism? You tell me.

Nothing casual about it, I'd say.

ilovesooty · 23/04/2022 21:37

FlibbertyGiblets · 23/04/2022 20:57

Not sure the relevance of being an 'old lady'? or the other 'old woman'? Have a think about why you want to show the opposition, so to speak, in a different light. Silly old dear, stupid old ladies, querulous and contrary, entitled old biddy, that kind of thing. Your story is not so spicy if it involved three women, is it? Casual ageism? You tell me.

I was wondering why the age of the woman was relevant.

MrsSkylerWhite · 23/04/2022 21:40

curlymom · 23/04/2022 21:23
MrsSkylerWhite
Confused. You were waiting for your food to be brought to you whilst charging your phone. Ergo, you were there before the other customer.

what’s the issue?
She was ordering at the counter and then arrived expecting me to move.”

I think maybe I put that badly because you misunderstood me, you were there first. Her problem, not yours 😃

FlibbertyGiblets · 23/04/2022 21:42

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And here. This is not acceptable. Please can we stop with the ageism, thank you.

FlibbertyGiblets · 23/04/2022 21:43

Oh my goodness, hair trigger speed of post removal, thank you HQ, WOW!

XenoBitch · 23/04/2022 21:44

YANBU
You ordered food and were sitting at the table so you could eat (and charge your phone). The other women were being entitled, and could have sat anywhere.

Tsuni · 23/04/2022 21:46

Well this is going to turn into an "ageism" bun fight, op.
Surely not your intention?

RonaldMcDonald · 23/04/2022 21:52

Maybe she didn’t know you had ordered or anything about the app
Perhaps she thought you were a table hogger (nabbing tables prior to purchase incenses my mild mannered mum)
or an elastic trickery thief - with your plugged in phone

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curlymom · 23/04/2022 22:00

Tsuni · 23/04/2022 21:46

Well this is going to turn into an "ageism" bun fight, op.
Surely not your intention?

No this is ridiculous. I mentioned age for context. If I’d said young lady would that be ageism too?

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crimesagainstwine · 23/04/2022 22:03

I’m no spring chicken either!

So why mention age @curlymom

Palmfrond · 23/04/2022 22:05

I would have challenged her to a fight.
Whoever wins gets the table AND the other person’s food.

ilovesooty · 23/04/2022 22:06

curlymom · 23/04/2022 22:00

No this is ridiculous. I mentioned age for context. If I’d said young lady would that be ageism too?

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What context were you trying to convey?