I've booked the same table for 15 years, now you've ruined our evening

[brucetiki]

Mum and I (and sometime a friend of Mum's) will go to a local pub for a meal. It's not the flashiest place around, but they do good pub meals.

Anyway, after a couple of weeks of ending up in the saloon because the bistro was booked out, we actually planned the dinner for once and got a booking, only there had been a massive change in staff during the week and the hotel lost the booking, but they got us a table no problem, and we had a good laugh at the irony of the situation.

The following week, we turned up without a booking, but they happily arranged a table for us. Unfortunately, the gave us a table that they had already reserved for someone else apparently.

Then there was the table next to us. We had the unfortunate privilege of sitting next to them a few weeks ago - and they're your typical elderly crowd, they just sit around and complain loudly about the issues of the world Grandpa Simpson style, making it rather awkward for anyone within a 3 table radius for them.

This week, the pub had misplaced their booking, but they still got a table, but that wasn't good enough. First, they went up to the person coordinating the tables to complain loudly that they had sat at the same table every week for 15 years, and it wasn't good enough that the booking was missing, and that there was a delay in getting them seated, and it was ruining their night bla bla bla.

Then they got back to their table, where they started banging the table repeatedly in their whinging to each other that how dare the pub lose their booking, the new staff are incompetent, that they've sat at the same table for the past 15 years and the new staff should have known that, and their night was ruined as a result. Certainly made trying to eat our (and those around them) meals awkward having to hear their carry on.

Now here's the best part - the pub ended up giving them the same table they've always had for 15 years (well, I think it was - it was the same table they were sitting at when we had to endure their last conversation the other week), but that didn't stop them yelling to each other about what had happened, banging of tables etc.

[Deserted]

There comes a certain point where you've just gotta stand up and say, "Hey! SHUT UP!"

[raudf]

"You're how old and STILL acting like whiny toddlers?! SHUT UP ALREADY!"

It is kind of sucky that the hotel keeps losing bookings, though. They need to find out what or who is causing it and fix it. But, if they have made all possible accommodations to fix the issue, then it's time to stop whining and just deal. Not everything is going to go perfectly every time. If it did, there'd be no need for doctors or lawyers.

[Caractacus_Potts]

Joe Banks, eighty-two years young, has come to this pub every week
for the past fifteen years, to sit at his table. But last month, Joe
made a discovery. The table...was gone. Some say the table went
to Canada. Others say, Toronto. And some people think, that Joe
used to sit at that table over there, [camera moves to another nearby table]. But it could be, that there's just no room in this
modern world, for an old man...and his table.

[XCashier]

First, they went up to the person coordinating the tables to complain loudly that they had sat at the same table every week for 15 years, and it wasn't good enough that the booking was missing, and that there was a delay in getting them seated, and it was ruining their night bla bla bla....the pub ended up giving them the same table they've always had for 15 years (well, I think it was - it was the same table they were sitting at when we had to endure their last conversation the other week), but that didn't stop them yelling to each other about what had happened, banging of tables etc.

"You got what you wanted, why are you still complaining?! Put on your big kid underoos and freakin' deal with it like an adult!!!"

They get what they wanted, yet still throw a tantrum. Pity the staff couldn't forcibly eject them for ruining the night for everyone else.

[Monterey Jack]

Joe Banks, eighty-two years young, has come to this pub every week
for the past fifteen years, to sit at his table. But last month, Joe
made a discovery. The table...was gone. Some say the table went
to Canada. Others say, Toronto. And some people think, that Joe
used to sit at that table over there, [camera moves to another nearby table]. But it could be, that there's just no room in this
modern world, for an old man...and his table.

Somehow, I read that with this voice in my head...

[Silent-Hunter]

That's funny, I read it in Morgan Freeman's voice.

[Deserted]

Now imagine it as a rap battle between the two.

[EricKei]

Now imagine it as a rap battle between the two.

Funny you should mention that. (Near the end of the list)

[Deserted]

Funny you should mention that. (Near the end of the list)