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.
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.
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