Headed to a pub yesterday with 3 friends and secured an outdoor table. Plan was to have a few drinks and food.
The table was one that could sit 4 with room and 6 at a squish.
Friends went to the bar while I stayed at the table. All outdoor tables were full but plenty of indoor available however the outdoor space is really nice.
A group of 4 approached me and asked if they could join on my table. I explained friends were at the bar.
Then a group of 6 asked me. Another group of 4. In the 10 minutes I'd been asked 6 times (everyone assuming I was alone). I just kept explaining friends were at the bar I wasn't alone.
One girl came back and asked if she could take one or two chairs depending on how many I was with. I said sure take the two chairs and she took them inside where she now was sat.
One of the women who had asked (think she was the fourth person!) was also now sat on a table inside but staring directly at me.
She came storming out aggressively and asked me why she couldn't sit on the table but I'd given two chairs to someone. I explained my friends are coming out they are at the bar but we didn't need all chairs. She shouted that I was rude and that her group could sit there.
I said you have a table what is your problem and she kept shouting I'm rude and she would prefer to be outside. I told her to go away and sitting at the table squishing us is completely different to taking a chair!!! She stormed off and gave me daggers for the rest of the evening.
so.... was I unreasonable?
technically we could have shared the table with a two but I had been asked multiple times by big groups. I just kept giving the same response. Tbh I didn't really think it's bad of me to want to sit comfortably on the table we got first and eat / chat in peace?? Plus there was space inside!