Rude behaviour at buffets

[ChopstickNovice]

We are in Gran Canaria and it's been LOVELY. Not actually encountered any cheeky fuckery at all until this morning.

I was at the hot drink machine (one of 3 in a row) dispensing hot water into a teapot. A man came up beside me, paused my hot water, made himself a cappuccino and then walked off! Not a word. Didn't even look at me.

I mention that he was very old only because it maybe explains that he didn't realise I was there? But he was aware enough to stop the hot water, so....? Also there were two free machines right there!

I was so surprised I didn't say anything.

Please tell me your stories of buffet (all inclusive or otherwise) cheeky fuckery!

Sometimes things are so “I can’t believe this is happening” that you are struck dumb.

Where is the shock/sick reaction emoji when you need it!
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Plus you never know how the person will react if challenged. You already know that they're arrogant, self-absorbed, entitled and/or unpredictable.

They might apologise; they might shrug and/or ignore you; they might give you an aggressive mouthful; or - as we've already heard an instance of on this thread - they could get physically violent towards you.

It's a bit like with shoplifters: the obvious 'right' thing is for staff to apprehend them and prevent them from stealing; but usually the safe thing to do is to let them get away with it and don't approach them.

The bemusement on this thread is funny. The old man simply knew he was more important than OP.
The Russians also knew that they were more important than anyone else.
When you firmly believe that you are the most important person in a room, all this behaviour is completely logical.
It’s only because we have been taught that everyone is equal, taking turns is the norm, sharing is caring, that this is at all shocking. But plenty of people are taught they are the centre of the universe and everyone else is there to serve them.

I couldn't believe it. There were families vacationing there FFS. The management said they couldn't do anything about it. They were probably Russian mafia or something. My guess is paying management off with wads of dirty money.

This made me laugh.

Stayed at a five star on the Costa del Sol. Buffet breakfast daily, it was lovely. The waiters brought the jugs of coffee and warm milk.

The Russians arrived. At breakfast a very short, portly dude rocked up with companion. Short shorts, high heels, full face of make up, torn T shirt. He looked lovely.

Children were asking their parents if it was a man or a woman. Nothing beats a confused four year old for stating their opinion.

So why dont the veggies and vegans just go to the front of the queue?

This is true, some people's self-entitlement knows no bounds.
You see it in drivers, shoppers, customers, and servers; they go through life firmly believing their needs override everyone else's.

Of course they are going to barge through buffets and hotel breakfasts before everyone else; it is their right.😮

As demonstrated so well by Donald Trump, when it comes to Greenland and other countries and territories: the total conviction that, because HE believes that HE needs it, existing ownership and anybody else's needs or requirements are simply not anything that you'd give the slightest passing thought to.

Oh. My. Goodness.

This is really awful. Glad to hear you are charging this year and hope you are factoring in repaying for last year’s as well.

To be honest, I was amazed to see at Morrison's - with their big Easter bargain of bags of veg for 4p - that there was loads still left and people were only taking two or three bags at most each.

I don't know if they had a limit per customer (although surely people would just keep buying the limit, taking it to their car and then coming back in as a 'new customer'?) or some other method of policing it; but knowing what people are like, I fully expected to see people just using their arms to sweep the whole mountain into their trolleys.

Unless maybe even having to pay 4p for a bag of carrots was too expensive for them; or they're too healthy to be of interest?!

^^ is vegetables in Morrisons a buffet?

I think the point was that it was surprising that people who run roughshod over others at buffets were not out in force grabbing everything on offer at Morrisons.

We stayed at a beautiful 5 star boutique hotel in Crete. Not AI, but the breakfast was a buffet.

One mum would seat her two kids at a table, then go to the buffet and bring back a plate piled high with croissants, pain au chocolate, and muffins. Another plate with several yoghurts, a plate full of different meats, and a plate full of the sliced fruits. The kids, maybe aged around 5, would hardly eat anything before they left. Such a huge waste of food, but the hotel staff didn’t say a thing. I’m now guessing that they were Russian!

Depends how you define it!! It's a load of food where you can help yourself - albeit not having paid a single all-in price!

I was just glad that, unlike with the many buffet experiences mentioned on here, people were not seizing far more of something that was (almost) free than they would be able to use, that would end up being thrown away, and leaving others with nothing.

I made cawl on Wednesday and got turnip, carrots and leeks from Lidl. I went to Morrisons on the way home and was mildly irked to see the 4p veg, when I spent over 2 Quid on it in Lidl!

Don't ever go to Hurghada 😂

Absolutely full of Russians. Spent one night there when driving across Egypt and it was a feral shithole. The men were drunk all day and strutting around in their speedos and the women were all heels and bikinis and gold jewellery. Just incredibly rude, entitled unpleasant people.

Off topic but this is my (Sociology MA wish I'd have done a PHD) absolute dream job! Although I suspect it would also drive me potty.

That's like when my FIL died. Hordes of old ladies turned up to the buffet after the funeral and the food was hoovered up so quickly. We had ordered 4 enormous containers of hotpot and most of the family didn't get any. None of us recognised these women but we were told they were from the church and well-known for turning up at funerals of people they didn't really know.

That does sound like an amazing job - a bit like Official Chocolate Taster; but it isn't the very best job you could get. That has to be Bed Tester - where you get paid to have a lovely, cosy sleep for 8 hours every day; and then, because you've been asleep all day, you have all evening and night free to do whatever you want!!!

Plenty of people do see funerals as ripe for the tapping. Sadly, it's always a risk advertising when they will take place.

At the extreme end of the spectrum, you get burglars who find out when the funeral is and so know when the house will definitely be empty; but you also have all of the tupperware pirates who will use any excuse to turn up for a mountain of free scran.

At work, if someone left, everyone would bring food in so that we had a nice buffet for a send off party. The cf ones who would stuff their faces but not contribute were always, without fail, the senior staff. There were only 3 of them, they were far too important to bring anything in, but quite happy to lower themselves to our level to eat our food. Everyone complained about it so the next time we had a party, we put a message on the general invitation- No freeloaders, if you don't bring food you don't eat!
Two didn't turn up, one brought in the cheapest, smallest packet of biscuits.

Oh yes I've heard of burglars targeting homes when there's a funeral.