Decided to go to a community cafe yesterday to get some lunch. I'm a regular there and know all the staff, service users and most of the regular punters who live locally and go there for a cheap & tasty meal.
There were some men walking up the stairs in front of me and there was another man in their group behind me. The one behind me was shouting in a bantery way over my head to the men in front. there was a closed set of swing doors before you get to the cafeteria. Instead of holding the door open the man in front let go with considerabke force and I had to put my arm out to protect my face from the door coming towards me. Because I was stationary, the man behind me then bumped into me from behind no apology.He then pushed in front of me in the queue so he could be with his mates. I gave him a filthy look and man who had brought these 2 others in said to me, "you go in front love as I am paying for all of us". As soon as I got to the front of the queue the man who had been behind me had somehow changed spaces with his friends and was directly behind me. He had his back to me and was waving his arms about and barging into me totally in my space. He kept doing this so I told himto stop bumping into me. It was like I was invisible to him. He continued so I shoved him out of my personal space and raised my voice.
The staff noticed at this point. They invited me to come and collect my meal tray. He then cut me up in the line trying to get to the food collection point and got told off by the server for pushing in. They told him to sit at one of the chairs and wait to be called forward to collect his tray with his friends after me. He then jostled me so I pointed and assertively said he needed to sit down there (obviously an unfamiliar first time customer). He made some muttering comment under his breath about/at me. I said loud enough for others to hear in the room "why do you think it's ok to shove and push in front of a woman I bet you do not do it to other men," WWYD?