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Can I be left alone

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DeanStockwelllsBunny · 14/05/2022 21:35

I will try to keep this brief but it s a bit long

Start point - I have been up since 3am , journey to work 1.5 hrs ( public transport )

Doing a job I know but at a site and with staff don't know, I am expected to take the lead.
All went OK but a bit stressful.
Finished work at 2pm , got a lift back to near home decided to do a bit of shopping ( nowt fancy just gen food shop ) .
Got that done by 4pm . Though bugger it I fancy a meal out .
So stopped at the local weatherspoons, sat down to look at the menu, at this point i had over ear headphones phones on, so anyone could see I was listening to something
someone sat at the next table st the same time, while I was looking at the menu they said have you eaten here before, ?
I said yes but not for a few months.

Conversation went
Them : What do you recommend, ?
Me ; pardon ? removes one ear piece
Them: what do uou like here
Me veg burger or chicken wrap
Them : OK
Me ( puts head phones back on ) goes to bar to order food, comes back
Them ; I watcheched your table for you
Me ummm ta
( about 30 covers on a 100 + cover bar)
Me settle to watch film I'd down loaded
Them after about 3 minutes, you from round here ?
Me takes head phones off, nope but I know a few pubs and restaurants are you looking for somewhere else to go ?
Them nope just wondering.
I watch the world h by go about 5 minutes then put head phones back on.
5 mis later Them have you got your food yet ?
Me WTF ?
takesheadphonse back off and says did you ask if I had my food yet?
Them, yes
Ne error no , or od I would be eating it !
Them ohhhhh OK
Me puts head phones back on
My food arrives , very nice staff ask ifvi want another drink , sauce etc
Me nop im fine ta
Them , Why didn't you get another drink ?
Me ffs takes head phones off again
WHAT ?
Them , oh you can get table service for drinks you know
Me , yes I know puts headphones back o and turns back on idiots.
Them , what you watching
Me argg , WHAT?
sorry just wondered what you were watching
ME James Bond, please can I eat and watch in peace I have had a long day
Them
You can't of had a long it's only 3pm
I totally ignor this
There food arrives Them excuse me do you know where I sxn get salt ,( its on table about 4 foot from Them)
I ignor again
Them well that's jyst rude
Me , loudly but under mybreath , God I wish I could eat jyst one meal in piece !
They shutt up for a bit then but I still said loudly that watching/ playing with a phone in a pub was antisocial.

Please tell me I rouldnt if got thrown out if I'd thrown a plate at them!

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ArtVandalay · 15/05/2022 18:14

Blimey, was it necessary to quote the entire exchange word for word? 😂

all you needed to do was say, ‘sorry, I’m watching something and don’t want to chat’. Or even better, changed tables.

DeanStockwelllsBunny · 16/05/2022 09:46

@NumberTheory , i am glad someone else see's it from my perspective.

It was their comment that I was been rude at the end that really annoyed me .

@ArtVandalay
I wrote the whole exchange so people could see it wasn't just one or two comments I had to put up with.
As I said up thread I had ordered food so I didn't want to move tables .

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