Was anyone else at Snape Maltings today? Did Alan get his table?

[WonderfulSmith]

Before I start I know it’s none of my business and I’m a bad person I’m sure but…

I was at Snape Maltings today which is a nice arts centre with a lovely shop selling all sorts of home wares and furniture. It’s very quiet and sedate.
Anyway, a woman started yelling at her husband. The whole place was pretending not to listen while giving each other looks. Turned out that he had ordered a perfectly innocent side table without talking to her about it first. She demanded that he cancel the order and he refused. He sat down on a sofa in the shop and she went and sat in the car. Every so often she’d come back and stick her head around the door, tell him the table was disgusting, and stomp back out.

When we left, Alan was still sat on the sofa. But I want to know how it ended. Are they still there now? Did Alan cancel the order?

Were any of you there?

No, but I wish i had been! Poor Alan.

Yes, poor Alan, and it was a perfectly nice table, but don’t go buying things without discussing it first.

There’s a video on TT atm where a woman is screaming at a man for being Parked outside her bfs house- the man Had broken down, wasn’t parked. She got her bf out and he was explaining as well and he was looking at her like she was mad. The update Was that he broke up with her after that because she was acting like a lunatic. His name was Alan as well so I wonder if he’s the same Guy 🙈

Poor Alan.

Haha I live fairly near Snape maltings and this story made me giggle 😅 Poor Alan and his table!

I am just here for any updates about the table.

Alan may seem like the injured party here but maybe he’s always making ‘executive decisions’ without her input and she just snapped!

More Alan info please, world

I hope someone lets you know the outcome.
Snape Maltings is rather lovely , fab Hepworth sculptures in the gardens I remember.

a perfectly innocent side table

😂

l want to know now

Alan didn’t say a word the whole time. She came in shouting ‘you’ve done what? What table?’ Alan indicates the table. ‘Oh bloody hell, oh that’s horrible, oh it’s disgusting. And you’ve ordered it? Well you can just bloody cancel it then’.
She then stomped out, carrying the dog.
Alan then went over to the cash desk and said ‘I’m in trouble, I’m not going to cancel though.’

😂

She's probably worked really hard making her house look good and then her husband has bought something that will look baffling in it.

Or maybe it's like my friend whose husband always made her feel there was no money for things most of us would think of as essential but would go and buy random and irrational expensive things

And you didn’t get a surreptitious pic of the side table so that we could make a meaningful decision as to whether we are Team Alan or not?

Tsk.

😆

It’s a bloody side table! How bad can one of those really be. The he only reason I’d be irritated by a side table in our house is there’s nowhere to put it without falling over it.

Now THIS is what MN is for!! I don’t know who Alan is, I don’t know what Snape Maltings is, but I need to know whether Alan prevailed!

😂

Here are the side tables - which one was it? 😁

Coffee Tables, Side Tables and Stools – Snape Maltings

I'm invested in this thread even though I don't know Alan, Snape Maltings (what?where?) or even if the side table was fugly.

Good call. The problem is that not everything they sell is on the website. It might have been this one shop.snapemaltings.co.uk/collections/coffee-tables-side-tables-and-stools/products/yaxley-round-side-table

I need to know! DH wouldn’t let me hang around to find out. I caught the eye of another woman and we agreed that we both felt sorry for Alan.

I'm team Alanswife then

I’m looking for it on their instagram.

Is anyone going tomorrow? Can you take a picture? Ask the staff if Alan got his table.

Is anyone on X, or Facegram, or Instabook!? I bet the Maltings are on there.

#TeamAlan

Yeah I wouldn’t like it either. Saying that there are paintings in this house I detest and I bite my tongue as it’s dh’s house too. However I swear they’re coming down before he’s even cold if I outlive him. 😁