Today I was at a soft play which was part of a bigger local attraction. My DC went off to play and I looked for somewhere to sit. There were several 4 seater and 6 seater tables and some single seats all around the edges. All the tables were occupied and most of the seats around the edges were too, some with coats on. One four seater table was empty except for a handbag right in the middle of it. I squeezed into an available empty single seat with my DC's coats and bags.
20 minutes went by and noone had been to claim the handbag and empty table. I needed to order some lunch for my DC and to have somewhere to sit and eat it so I picked up the handbag, moved it to my single seat which was right near the table, and claimed the table, ordering lunch on the app.
By this point I honestly thought that the handbag might have been left by mistake so I thought I'd keep an eye on it and hand it in to the staff on my way out if noone came back to claim it.
A full 45 minutes went by (so over an hour in total since I first arrived) and as my 2 DC and I were sat there eating lunch, a woman with three kids came back.
She looked confused for a second, then saw the handbag, snatched it up, rounded on me and said "That was OUR table, we were SITTING there??" waving the handbag at me.
I explained that noone seemed to be using the table, it was busy and there weren't many places to sit and that I wasn't actually sure if the handbag was there on purpose or not or if it had been lost.
She got very angry, bordering on aggressive and said that they were already sitting there, she had just taken her DD to such-and-such a place, which is on the other side of the park, there was a queue there so it took ages and she'd already ordered lunch to that table so we needed to move, and that I had no right to touch her handbag
There might have been more argument but a family leaving came over and said they could have their table so she matched off there instead but kept making loads of passive aggressive comments for the next 15 minutes until we moved on.
WIBU to move the bag and claim the table?
BTW this has nothing to do with my username, pure coincidence! 😅