Would waiting half an hour piss you off?

[whiteferrari]

For someone to go into a changing room and not come out for 30 minutes and then not even acknowledge they’ve taken that long?

(Person is an adult not a child for relevance)

More context needed…

Was it the only changing room?
did they know you waited 30mins?
why couldn’t you get changed elsewhere?

For someone trying on clothes? Not really if they took in a good armful of things to try!

Well yes obviously I think that would piss anyone off but Did you stand there like a lemon for 30 mins or did you browse by yourself, don’t you have phones to get in touch if you can’t find each other?

A changing room in a shop and they were just trying on a top? Yes, it would annoy me.

Or a changing room in a gym and they were having a shower etc? Maybe, depends how busy it was.

Depends. I hate trying clothes on and how the mirrors/clothes can make me feel. I could possible be sat in the changing room crying for half an hour 🤦‍♀️

Full context. I was at work today (work in city centre) and colleague asked what I was doing for lunch and said she’d join me.

She said she needed to go in a clothes shop, we went in and she said she was going to try her clothes on (she had maybe 3 items)

I said ok I need to make a phone call so I’ll wait outside thinking she wouldn’t be long, I sat on a bench directly outside and she took half an hour.

I don’t even have her number to call. I felt like I couldn’t leave because she would have walked out and had no idea where I’d gone.

Did she apologise for being so long or acknowledge the fact she had? I would never keep someone waiting that long, it's really rude IMO.

I’d have walked out after 10 minutes

It depends, if myself and colleague arranged to grab some lunch and we couldn’t as a result of her taking so long, I’d be pissed.

If I had lunch with me and my original plan was to find a bench and eat by myself anyway, it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.

So you pretty much missed your lunch break? You should have just left. She is old enough to figure that out.

I despise clothes shopping, so on the rare occasions I do go, I try an absolute shitload of stuff on all in one sitting. I hate having to keep getting undressed> dressed> find more stuff to try on> undressed> dressed> (etc!)

And the queue for a changing cubicle to become free may also be a mile long on a busy Saturday afternoon.

So I could maybe end up being gone for 30 mins.

But I try to go alone when I know I'm going to be doing this kind of shopping, as I appreciate it's no fun for say, my DH or DS. They'd be going insane with boredom.

Sorry, myself and colleague? What does that mean? Do you mean, “My colleague and I?”

Oh ffs, you know what I meant. Why are you acting so alarmed when you worked out it anyway?!

🙄
Ffs

Pedants corner in thatta way! >>>

No she didn’t.

Wow OP your colleague is really weird and rude.

So you spent half your lunchbreak waiting for her?!

Avoid her, she’s either playing power games or is an idiot.

I would have excused myself and put my head around the curtain or knocked on the door and said that I need to go as my lunch break was nearly up. I wouldn't have taken myself outside the shop which it sounds like you did. At least you know for the future.

I’d have left, but if you were worried about her wondering where you were I’d
have gone into the changing bit, called her name to work out what one she was in and just have said you were heading off, sitting there missing your lunch hour is crazy.

Honestly, I don’t understand the ‘Sorry (scoff) do you mean…????’. They always work it out on their own anyway, I don’t get the performance.

Just seen your update OP about it being during a lunch break with a colleague

If I'd missed getting something to eat because of her, then yeah I'd be pissed off

But as a pp says, if I'd already brought lunch and could eat it on the bench then I'd not be too bothered really

But in saying that, if was intending to get lunch while I was out, I'd have prob just gone in the shop to find her to say I was leaving to get my lunch. And if I was unable to find her, I'd just go. I wouldnt hang around like a lemon just waiting.

Oh give yourself a night off 🙄

MN is full of these types who try to derail threads with their undeserved sense of superiority. It's so fucking tedious.

They are always lurking in the shadows aren’t they?! I imagine when they see a mistake, they rub their little hands together and get ready to deliver their take down line… “Sorry, do you mean..” 🙄

Why didn’t you pop to the changing rooms and call out to ask her what the hold up was? Or to let her know you’re heading off to grab something to eat?

She’s been inconsiderate obviously but you shouldn’t have waited around for her.