To just hate rich, braying people today. I know I am, but I am just not thick-skinned today, angry, RANT alert

[Lauriefairycake]

So we went out for a lovely afternoon waffle at the fabulous waffle house in St Michaels (St Albans). We don't go out much so it was a real treat.

Middle aged almost (mid 50's) couple next to us - him in burberry jacket, Hackett scarf and shirt. Her with £800 quid Chloe bag.

They were on the table next to us and came in the same time. They kept saying how lovely it was and how quick the service was. They had virtually the same as us. Their bill came to £16 - they paid with a twenty. They kept the change. The bloke said what about a tip. The woman said "that'll do, she's only young".

When they left they put 40p on the table for the waitress

hmm, well.
I am not sure it is clearly bitter and jealous and all of that.
maybe she was just angry about the yawning divide between rich and poor in this country?
there could be lots of reasons for her anger.
but my point is, after 200 posts, plus another thread started just to mock this one, that lfc may have got the point?

Oh Santa Fe is fabulous absolutely marvellous and far nicer and drier and warmer than the Cotswolds.

PS Expat I endorse your idea of hot

San Diego is lovely - if you like the States, which TBH I don't really.........

My mother loves Santa Fe, KM. I haven't been in years, though.

Definitely the Languedoc region for principal residence, though.

SE i dont even know where the park is lol its been a fair few years i think i would get lost just getting there.

I remember once, we were out climbing outside Boulder.

It was around 100 degrees, but the humidity was about 11 and we were in the shade.

It was bliss!

But there were some camp kids there bitching. Their guide shut them up with, 'Yeah, but it's a dry heat.'

He'd grown up in Alabama. That's a whole different kind of heat! Wet heat is like a wet cold, utterly miserable.

Laurie........

You could have excused yourself in so very many ways, but you chose to advertise that you were off to do Samaritan work.

Almost calm now. Nothing like going to a Samaritans shift tonight to put your own life in perspective.

no you wouldn't misdee, it's up the road from you, very easy to get to and park.

the park is great it's huge! lots of ducks

Haven't read the whole thread. I used to live in Harpenden and I've been to the Waffle House in St. Albans. It is all quite poncey. I think Harpenden is known as the Hertfordshire Chelsea. It is full of people who work in London with loads of disposable income. Almost impossible to get a parking space except in the Waitrose car-park which is full of sports cars. Hence a lot of the eateries in that area are poncey too and full of poncey people. It is all quite 'in yer face' so not the best place to live if you don't like people who bray. I now live in the Cotswolds and it is not a lot different in terms of poncey people just a lot less in yer face because there is just more space so it is spread out.

As for tipping, each to their own. I wouldn't want to judge someone for being a poor tipper (unless I was a waitress!) but I suppose I do have a general prejudice that people who tip badly are mean and it is sometimes the people with the most money who are like this.

harpsichordcarrier the op is VStrongly worded eg
I hate you, you are total scum.
you tight bastards
it's because you don't give a toss about anyone else

ranty, vitriolic stuff sure to provoke a reaction.

hardly philosophical musing about class, social stratification, and consumer durables

just a bit of a strop

thing about AIBU is it generally does generate a lot of responses. this one did. i am sure laurie is not that surprised

"full of people who work in London with loads of disposable income"

fuckers, eh?

YABVU and this thread smacks of inverred snobbery.

How very dare they?!

inverted snobbery that should be.

methinky the green eyed monster cant get a parking space for all the sports car and ponces. LOL

yeah well just a bit of a strop about three hours and 250 posts ago.
this is one of those threads that makes me wince a bit. it's just a little bit "all pile in" is my take on it, coming to it late in the day.
lfc said she was going to have a rant. she said she was angry and unreasonable. an she has been kicked to death really and she hasn't been aggressive or defensive.
it is just my personal opinion, but the level of aggression and righteous anger being poured on lfc is making me very uncomfortable.
I don't know her, in fact I don't remember seeing her around before, but tbh if I have ranted like that about something I felt strongly about and got this kind of reaction, I would now be feeling very very upset.
that's all. not trying to make a big deal of it.

Agree HC, you've put it perfectly.

agree with harpsi totally.

you really do have to live round these parts to notice the ponciness though

Listen, I used to have one of those poncey jobs and I could have had a sports-car if I'd wanted one, but I didn't. It's not me, far too vulgar. I prefer understated elegance, moi.

And there was always a space in the Waitrose car-park for me.

yes HC i agree.

it is quite puncey here, not as much as st albans/harpenden admittingly, but still...