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Minor celebs wife being rude in pub

386 replies

cattreatsanddragrace · 04/09/2023 09:28

Went to a country pub yesterday with my partner. Nice little place in the Surrey countryside, part of a chain, not fine dining. Very busy as the weather was really good, some stressed looking teenage girls trying to serve everyone. Kids play area in the garden and a bar in the garden area for drinks. We were sat on the patio attached to the restaurant.

A minor TV celeb, his wife, and another couple were sat across from us. The wife of the minor celeb complained a few times (that I heard).

First time: That one of the starters came out fractionally behind one of the others. (It was busy, there were four of them, the waitress can only carry two plates?!)

Second time: that the prawns in their prawn cocktail were inedible. (To be fair, I'd let this complaint slide as I didn't eat the prawn cocktail. It could have been bad). The waitress apologised and had a new dish made for them.

Third time: and this is the one that got me. The mains came, and the waitress went to put the plates down. The wife of the celeb laughed and stopped the waitress, and told her that "you don't serve plates from that side" aka the waitress was stood on the wrong side of her putting her plate down. She made the waitress go round the other side and put her plate down. This wasn't a silver service Michelin starred restaurant where you might expect such things. Just a standard pub.

So my (lighthearted) AIBU - do I sell this story to the Daily Mail and name and shame?

OP posts:
HB1974 · 04/09/2023 09:28

What a bitch.

I'd be very tempted!

CoteDOpale · 04/09/2023 09:30

Absolutely. Plates are routinely served from any side in a pub - and most restaurants.

Props to the owners for not yeeting her out the door. I would have.

avemariiiaa · 04/09/2023 09:31

I would.

What a bitch.

She shouldn't get to demean people like that.

IusedToBeYoung1 · 04/09/2023 09:31

Intriguing, fess up.

determinedtomakethiswork · 04/09/2023 09:31

You could tweet her and say she should be very careful how she behaves in public.

TheSkull · 04/09/2023 09:32

Utter bastard

Samcro · 04/09/2023 09:33

wow you must have been bored to notice all this

Baconking · 04/09/2023 09:40

The story's worth about a fiver

OhNoForever · 04/09/2023 09:41

Tell us who

mrsjoyfulprizeforraffiawork · 04/09/2023 09:42

Long ago, when I was at school, some of my classmates lived in Chigwell and told us about the behaviour of the wife of the very famous world cup winning football captain, who also lived there. Once, she walked into the baker's, where there was a queue, and walked straight to the counter. When challenged, she said, "Do you know who I am?". Queue replied, "Yes! Get to the back of the queue!"

SisterAgatha · 04/09/2023 09:43

No one will pay you but we still wanna know. Tell tell!

Boujibroke · 04/09/2023 09:44

Here for the name drop.

HoneyPotts · 04/09/2023 09:46

I can’t believe the waitress served the plates from the other side. Everyone knows in informal settings it doesn’t matter what side the plates are served from.

I bet she don’t care what side the starters were served from. She did it because they pandered to her two previous ‘complaints’. It’s called being a cunt.

blackrabbitwhiterabbit · 04/09/2023 09:46

Pleeeeeeease do.

Tatslookawful · 04/09/2023 09:48

mrsjoyfulprizeforraffiawork · 04/09/2023 09:42

Long ago, when I was at school, some of my classmates lived in Chigwell and told us about the behaviour of the wife of the very famous world cup winning football captain, who also lived there. Once, she walked into the baker's, where there was a queue, and walked straight to the counter. When challenged, she said, "Do you know who I am?". Queue replied, "Yes! Get to the back of the queue!"

That story I’ve heard as per Cecil Parkinson’s wife & Kate M’s mother. Etc. People make them up.

ssd · 04/09/2023 09:49

Clue please

lucylucyapplejuicy · 04/09/2023 09:50

Give us a clue! 🤣

jlpth · 04/09/2023 09:52

Very very nasty - particularly telling the waitress to serve from the other side. That was arrogant, controlling and mean. She probably knew she could get away with it as the waitress was young. Had the waitress been 50, she would have been able to handle the bitch.

35965a · 04/09/2023 09:53

Drop the name!

NotTerfNorCis · 04/09/2023 09:54

She was behaving badly, but I don't like the whole public shaming thing.

dontforgetme · 04/09/2023 09:56

Go on give us a clue!

Thepeopleversuswork · 04/09/2023 09:56

I wouldn't bother selling to the Daily Mail, you won't make enough money to make it worthwhile.

She sounds like an arsehole but tbf there are plenty of civilians who behave like this.

RoadLess · 04/09/2023 09:57

Tatslookawful · 04/09/2023 09:48

That story I’ve heard as per Cecil Parkinson’s wife & Kate M’s mother. Etc. People make them up.

Yes, it’s an urban legend, like all those babies called ‘La-a’, pronounced ‘Ladasha’.

It’s been set in restaurants, bars, clubs, bakeries, newsagents etc, and I’ve heard it about entirely different celebrities in at least three countries.

CardiganBardigan · 04/09/2023 09:57

NotTerfNorCis · 04/09/2023 09:54

She was behaving badly, but I don't like the whole public shaming thing.

Well she's shamed herself by acting like a twat in public hasn't she?

People are going to notice and have an opinion. She's not immune from comment just because she's married to a Z list.

ShirleyPhallus · 04/09/2023 09:59

It’s gonna be someone from coronation street’s wife isn’t it

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