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Post by annabella on Dec 8, 2014 19:41:10 GMT
Instead of complaining here I would have jumped up and offered the elderly couple my table.
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Post by Aheartfeltcard on Dec 8, 2014 19:47:45 GMT
It's too bad for that woman...you have to be a truly miserable human being to watch someone struggle because it was mine first. The truth is I would have jet it go and moved somewhere else even if they were not struggling because life is too short for this shit.
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Post by Nink on Dec 8, 2014 20:07:05 GMT
While I understand that you are upset for the old couple being asked to move, why did they sit at that table in the first place? Didn't you say that the woman had put her number on it indicating that it was taken? So do the older people just get a pass to take other people's tables? I don't agree that a number saves you a table. You need to be sitting there to claim your spot. Ummm, wow. Then how do you suggest people who are dining alone use the restroom or grab a drink etc.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2014 20:14:26 GMT
While I understand that you are upset for the old couple being asked to move, why did they sit at that table in the first place? Didn't you say that the woman had put her number on it indicating that it was taken? So do the older people just get a pass to take other people's tables? I don't agree that a number saves you a table. You need to be sitting there to claim your spot. So you can't get up to get a drink or use the restroom if you are alone? That is silly. While I agree this woman was rude the table was taken. She might have been having a horrible day and just trying to cope. You never know.
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Post by katiekaty on Dec 8, 2014 21:33:24 GMT
A number saves your spot. Yes. Been led to many table and have had a waitress leave her name ticket/card on the table and have been told help yourselves to the buffet. Nothing else on the table to hold the spot. No matter who, you should move if you inadvertently take someone's table. Doesn't mean anyone was rude. It was an unfortunate accident. And not offering to give up the table doesn't make the first guest rude, she chose that spot for her own dining pleasure and her own reasons. If it was a younger couple you would not be saying anything negative. It's just unfortunate. Not rude. And they would probably been very embarrassed if you would have said anything because of there age!
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Post by Prenticekid on Dec 8, 2014 21:41:19 GMT
They still would have had to move, right? It would have been simpler for the 20-something to move, no matter what the circumstances were.
At that sort of place, I do not consider those numbers to be table holders. I get my drink, and then I sit down. The drink is a table holder if I need to get up again. However, I do get that some people think they can just put the numbers down and claim a table before they themselves get it together.
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Post by hennybutton on Dec 8, 2014 21:53:26 GMT
A number saves your spot. Yes. Been led to many table and have had a waitress leave her name ticket/card on the table and have been told help yourselves to the buffet. Nothing else on the table to hold the spot. No matter who, you should move if you inadvertently take someone's table. Doesn't mean anyone was rude. It was an unfortunate accident. And not offering to give up the table doesn't make the first guest rude, she chose that spot for her own dining pleasure and her own reasons. If it was a younger couple you would not be saying anything negative. It's just unfortunate. Not rude. And they would probably been very embarrassed if you would have said anything because of there age! Looks like we're in the minority Katiekaty. OP doesn't know what was said by the younger woman or the older couple either. Imagine if I posted the following: I was in Corner Bakery for lunch today. I put my number on the table and went to get my drink. When I came back, I found an elderly man helping his wife get settled into the table I had chosen. I asked them to excuse me and to pass me my number so I could get another table. They insisted they would move and proceeded to get up. I told them they didn't need to move, just to hand me my number so I wouldn't have to reach over the table to get it. They ignored me and moved to another table while I stood there, dumbfounded.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2014 23:22:05 GMT
I was imagining it was one of those Carl Jr. type of joints that are very casual. Not a place where there is a waitress AND you are given a number. I might have read the OP wrong, but the lady went to get her drink. I guess people do it differently than me. I don't claim a table until I'm ready to sit down.
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Post by myboysnme on Dec 8, 2014 23:32:32 GMT
I don't agree that a number saves you a table. You need to be sitting there to claim your spot. I can think of many times this is just not valid. If I leave my coat on the chair and go to pick up my food at the counter is it my table? If I am eating but have my food on the table and get up to get more napkins is it my table? If I get up to go to the salad bar? If I put my number in the place where you put numbers and came back to find someone sitting there I would be unnerved. Because at that place, you put your number on the table so the waiter knows where to deliver your meal. If I go to say, Jason's Deli and go to the salad bar, my number is on the table and I expect to sit there when I get back. Yes, they were elderly and likely didn't sit there knowing someone else had put their number there, but I agree it was her table. Whether or not she offered the table to the elderly couple or not, this does not hit my radar as the rudest thing I have seen.
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