Watch this argument with me

[Motherflubber]

I’m eating alone in a very small restaurant in a very small town and there’s a very small woman absolutely laying in to her dining partner who is resolutely refusing to react.

She’s in her mid-60’s I’d say. Her dining partner looks a similar age, he’s probably late 60’s although looks younger because he’s got that lanky teenage frame and posture about him. He’s deathly calm in the face of her fury.

Anyway, she’s fuming. It started about 20 minutes ago with a furiously whispered ‘well it’s just like it was in millets PHILLIP’. The ‘Phillip’ was spat with such venom I winced from across the room. There’s only them, me and another table here.

From what I can gather, Phillip has a long held opinion on something and as a result, doesn’t want to buy something that this lady would like to purchase. She says she will buy it for herself and Phillip has calmly said ‘that’s fine if you want to, I don’t mind you having one but I won’t be using it’. He’s eating a burger and switched from eating with a knife and fork to picking the whole thing up in his hands - this infuriated the woman further and she said that sort of behaviour was exactly why she can’t have him coming to Mark and Fiona’s next week. He didn’t reply to that and that also seems to have annoyed this woman even more. She has finished her main course but keeps picking up her cutlery and putting it down again like she’s stuck for something to do.

Phillip has attempted to change the subject a few times but she can’t let this go. They’ve not said what the thing is but my first thought was an electric car maybe? She wants one but he doesn’t? Whatever it is has clearly been boiling her piss for a while because she’s absolutely hopping mad that he won’t agree to use one of whatever it is. I’m also dying to know what happened in Millets.

Also yes I’m eavesdropping, although given the space is tiny and they’re feet away from me, I’d hear what was happening whether I was trying to hear it or not. It is indeed none of my business and if you need to tell me off to feel morally superior then please do go ahead. If you’re a people watcher though, come and speculate with me

I bet it's a vibrator, or maybe a strap-on.

Suspense is killing me 🤣

Aaah not a vibrator, then 🤣🤣🤣

I’m eating alone in a very small restaurant in a very small town and there’s a very small woman absolutely laying in to her dining partner who is resolutely refusing to react.

Alice?

Hubby and I are howling reading this. Thank you, OP. I think you should turn this into a regular Sunday night entertainment series 😂. 'Sunday Funday'.

I'm so invested in this... can you go back next week and see if its a regular meal out?

I was invested straight away but "it’s not a hobby Judith, we don’t have to do it together" about getting hearing aids is 😂

I swear, half the arguments my parents have come about because neither of them can hear properly, and they both keep mishearing what the other said. Then either the response makes no sense, or they think the thing that was said was something arsey, or there's just no response at all because the one being spoken to didn't hear at all but the other thinks they are ignoring them 🤦

Love this, I always love listening to other people's conversations especially if there is a disagreement involved!

A barrage of Alpaca.

Nice - so not only are you listening in but you are repeating things gleefully online?

I do hope they don’t see this as they would surely recognise themselves

Seriously? Why?

This thread has reminded me of witnessing a similar silent dining couple in a pub in Hurstpierpoint about 35 years ago. Not a single word. I was fascinated.

I've never forgotten them.

Bad day hun?

Same here, its a strong memory! I can even describe them physically!

ETA this was in North Wales about 10 miles along the coast from Caernarfon

No, I just don’t get why people do this 🤷‍♀️ Each to their own and all that but I can’t imagine being that invested in someone else’s conversation, even if it is loud

And yet here you are.

Pardon?

Indeed

Lighten up!
He's not likely to be on MN and if she is, she'll see that we're mostly on her side.

Mind you, he might be on here.
He'd be one of those maddening blokes who preface all their answers with "Man here".

I’m sure that would be a great consolation to her

The endless fascination with the human condition.
Not forgetting a love of gossip.

😆sounds hilarious

Well, because it's funny really.

Comedy is often based on these kinds of interactions between characters.

Thankfully, I'm unencumbered by whatever moral code you follow that prohibits the enjoyment of these kinds of interactions.

Tbh, if Philip finds this thread, it'll just be the cherry on top of this little slice of drama 😄

Tbh, if Philip finds this thread, it'll just be the cherry on top of this little slice of drama 😄

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think she might be making it up as it reads like a book....but who cares, she's a good writer either way 😁