Afternoon tea ruined

ian87

So there we were, the missus and I out for afternoon tea. Lovely and civilised and this wan comes in and sits next to us. Pulls out the phone and starts roaring down it. I nearly choked on my cucumber sandwich. A nice afternoon ruined.
Why do people insist on blaring their conversations in public places?
After hours, what would you have done?

Chucken

ian87 wrote: »

what would you have done?

Moved from the grounds of Buckingham palace?

Lisha

I'd have asked the maitre d to remove her forthwith natch

BBDBB

had coffee instead?

Banjo String

ian87 wrote: »

So there we were, the missus and I out for afternoon tea. Lovely and civilised and this wan comes in and sits next to us. Pulls out the phone and starts roaring down it. I nearly choked on my cucumber sandwich. A nice afternoon ruined.
Why do people insist on blaring their conversations in public places?
After hours, what would you have done?

The cheek of them.

Using their phone in a public place, how dare they!

(are you serious)?

dark crystal

Strangled her with your wife's string of pearls.

ian87

SamHall wrote: »

The cheek of them.

Using their phone in a public place, how dare they!

(are you serious)?

Not really tbh, but we were having a bit of a treat from a voucher I won.
The woman was roaring down the phone. Problem was it was a small room and not really an appropriate place to be broadcasting your convo to the world.

BillyMitchel

I know where I would of stuck the cucumber!!

dark crystal

dark crystal wrote: »

Strangled her with your wife's string of pearls.

I don't think it was that kind of pearl necklace that he gave his missus.

ian87

dark crystal wrote: »

Strangled her with your wife's string of pearls.

We left the pearl necklace at home.

Camster 123

using a phone in public is grand, but i hate it when people roar down the phone. I genuinely would've tried glaring at her, or if that didnt work id tell her to quieten it down. Then again, i don't like eating in quiet tea shops, i go to nice comfortable chatty places, where a bit of noise is welcome :P

ian87

Camster 123 wrote: »

using a phone in public is grand, but i hate it when people roar down the phone. I genuinely would've tried glaring at her, or if that didnt work id tell her to quieten it down. Then again, i don't like eating in quiet tea shops, i go to nice comfortable chatty places, where a bit of noise is welcome :P

Ah ya fair enough. As I said, bit of a treat. I glared her out of it and tutted away at her but she was totally oblivious.

It's up there with people having running commentaries in the cinema.

Camster 123

ian87 wrote: »

Ah ya fair enough. As I said, bit of a treat. I glared her out of it and tutted away at her but she was totally oblivious.

It's up there with people having running commentaries in the cinema.

Stupid woman, tell the staff next time and embarrass them

Pumpkinseeds

I find that if you deliberately speak very loudly, in order that these sorts of people here you say something like'FFS the cheek of some people, you'd think they'd have a bit of consideration, its not as if anyone gives a s*it what she's got to say' generally works. At least you'd have vented your annoyance about it and made your point. Although the odds are she wouldn't have given a damn and would have just included your insults into her conversation

Banjo String

Scruffles

shoud have stared at her and look seriously interested in what she was saying,
nudge the wife point at this woman and say 'hey *wifey*,check this out some woman is having an amazing conversation-is there any pop corn in the hand bag to nibble whilst we listen?'...bonus points if there is actualy any pop corn to hand.:cool:
whilst staring with curiosity perhaps talk about any random sentance she has said with the wife.
that shoud make her think 'ewwww,some weirdos are perving on this phone call, better STFU/hang up and talk later'.

dont stare at chavs [aka scangers] though,they get all 'EEEEE RRRRR,whah yoh givin meh dat dirteh look for yoh wanna fighhhh do yoh yo' [at least thats the mancunian chav version].

3ndahalfof6

A newnumber samwidge you say eh, to posh for me I would shout nloud twooo.

Nodin

ian87 wrote: »

Not really tbh, but we were having a bit of a treat from a voucher I won.
The woman was roaring down the phone. Problem was it was a small room and not really an appropriate place to be broadcasting your convo to the world.

....was she arguing on the phone? What was the argument/conversation about?

Chucken

ian87 wrote: »

Not really tbh, but we were having a bit of a treat from a voucher I won.

For cucumber sandwiches?

Your wife is a lucky woman

3ndahalfof6

Chucken wrote: »

For cucumber sandwiches?

Your wife is a lucky woman

Man.

ian87

Chucken wrote: »

For cucumber sandwiches?

Your wife is a lucky woman

She's not my wife ha! We were in a table quiz where everybody at our table won a different voucher. I got this, she got a brown Thomas voucher. Did I see a cent of it? Did I fook! She did very well out of that table quiz!

mikemac1

Take your pocket watch from your waistcoat and strangle the ruffian with the chain was clearly the thing to do

ian87

Nodin wrote: »

....was she arguing on the phone? What was the argument/conversation about?

OH YA JIM, WE ARE HERE FOR AFTERNOON TEA! OH YA IT'S LOVELY, SO CIVILISED! THE GIRLS
WILL BE HERE IN A WHILE, WHAT WILL YOU HAVE FOR THE DINNER.... BLAH BLAH BLAH!

Chucken

ian87 wrote: »

She's not my wife ha! We were in a table quiz where everybody at our table won a different voucher. I got this, she got a brown Thomas voucher. Did I see a cent of it? Did I fook! She did very well out of that table quiz!

Ohhhh, now its getting interesting!

Someone elses wife??

3ndahalfof6

mikemac1 wrote: »

Take your pocket watch from your waistcoat and strangle the ruffian with the chain was clearly the thing to do.

fyp or sumtin like daaa.

So the OP brought someone elses wife to a posh hotel and gave her a cream tea and a pearl necklace?

And then what happened?

ian87

Chucken wrote: »

Ohhhh, now its getting interesting!

Someone elses wife??

**** I'm caught! Mrs. Chucken did say she had a great time, rude shouting wan or not.
Ha!

ian87

ian87 wrote: »

**** I'm caught! Mrs. Chucken did say she had a great time, rude shouting wan or not.
Ha!

Dude, that is Mrs. Chucken :eek:

ian87

whoopsadaisydoodles wrote: »

So the OP brought someone elses wife to a posh hotel and gave her a cream tea and a pearl necklace?

And then what happened?

Something along the lines of "In the drawing room with the candle stick..."

ian87

whoopsadaisydoodles wrote: »

Dude, that is Mrs. Chucken :eek:

Uh oh!!!!

Chucken

ian87 wrote: »

**** I'm caught! Mrs. Chucken did say she had a great time, rude shouting wan or not.
Ha!

I was at home all day, I swear

the groutch

ian87 wrote: »

Something along the lines of "In the drawing room with the candle stick..."

Candle stick? Is that what posh people call it?

Chucken

Chucken wrote: »

I was at home all day, I swear

And where was the cucumber during all of this?

Chucken

Deleted User wrote: »

And where was the cucumber during all of this?

In the drawing room in the candlestick

padd b1975

Just do what Larry does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdpJlZ07u4

ian87

Chucken wrote: »

In the drawing room in the candlestick

With colonel mustard! Duuurrrtyyy!

Chemical Burn

woodoo

SamHall wrote: »

The cheek of them.

Using their phone in a public place, how dare they!

(are you serious)?

People still should have manners and a bit of consideration for others.

cbreeze

Nothing much you can do really. Obviously the person on the phone was not aware of her social faux pas

You could:

+shout loudly into your own phone
+both of you use phones to shout to different imaginary drug dealers/prostitutes/revenue officials/county councillors, 'whaddya mean, you didn't get that cheque for 100K! my driver delivered it personally!! WTF!!'
+fart (loudly)
+pretend person on phone has just farted and make fanning movements with hands
+pick your nose/s
+take off a shoe and sock and inspect something interesting between your toes
+do all of the above simultaneously

Son Of A Vidic

ian87 wrote: »

So there we were, the missus and I out for afternoon tea.

Which century was this again?

holystungun9

OP, come to Madrid. When I first came here and didn't have much Spanish, I thought that people were arguing all the time. These 'heated shouting matches' ended up being just friendly chats. It is the one thing that I just can't get used to. I'm actually annoyed right now even thinking about getting on the train tomorrow.

fussyonion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bFs_eC-4M8

Dwork

ian87 wrote: »

Not really tbh, but we were having a bit of a treat from a voucher I won.
The woman was roaring down the phone. Problem was it was a small room and not really an appropriate place to be broadcasting your convo to the world.

I think I see your problem right there. The good places don't really do "vouchers".

How do you turn perfectly good money you can spend anywhere into somthing you can spend in only one place, on their terms? Buy a voucher. Or worse still, win one.

Johro

ian87 wrote: »

So there we were, the missus and I out for afternoon tea. Lovely and civilised and this wan comes in and sits next to us. Pulls out the phone and starts roaring down it. I nearly choked on my cucumber sandwich. A nice afternoon ruined.
Why do people insist on blaring their conversations in public places?
After hours, what would you have done?

Well.. you're in a public place. It's ignorant, but what can you do?
I hate it when you're at some kind of social gathering and people keep messing with their phones, facebooking and tweeting and generally being anti-social gits to the point where it's just no use starting a conversation with them because they are constantly sidetracked by their phone's little buzzes and notifications, my bro has gotten like that and i just want to smack him over the head with it. Only half of him is actually in the room with ya. F#ckin hell like.

Rabies

ian87 wrote: »

So there we were, the missus and I out for afternoon tea. Lovely and civilised and this wan comes in and sits next to us. Pulls out the phone and starts roaring down it. I nearly choked on my cucumber sandwich. A nice afternoon ruined.
Why do people insist on blaring their conversations in public places?
After hours, what would you have done?

I would have sent the sandwich back and asked for a proper one.

ian87

Dwork wrote: »

I think I see your problem right there. The good places don't really do "vouchers".

How do you turn perfectly good money you can spend anywhere into somthing you can spend in only one place, on their terms? Buy a voucher. Or worse still, win one.

3rd prize: €30 voucher for goods and services in x hotel and spa. We spent it on afternoon tea. We could have stayed, but hotel is 5 miles from home. Ive no interest in the spa. Solution, go out with my gf for the afternoon for lunch with a twist. Simples.

Miss Lockhart

Did she also have cucumber sandwiches, OP, or did you get them all and leave her without? Perhaps she was making a complaint that cucumbers weren't to be had, even for ready money. And you know you simply must have cucumber sandwiches for afternoon tea - cake is rarely seen in the best houses nowadays!

Back at the Manor today, his Lordship gave me some cucumber, I almost choked on it.

Dwork

ian87 wrote: »

3rd prize: €30 voucher for goods and services in x hotel and spa. We spent it on afternoon tea. We could have stayed, but hotel is 5 miles from home. Ive no interest in the spa. Solution, go out with my gf for the afternoon for lunch with a twist. Simples.

1st Prize, shove your voucher, then I can choose where I go and complain loudly if some bint comes in roaring on her mobile. Or not. Personally, I'd just have loved to have told her to STFU and enjoyed my cucumber sammiches in peace.

I was on the ferry the other day, watching "Total recall"(Dwork review-actioney, but a bit poor, plot is loopers tbh) and some muppet in a check shirt with ADD was gobbing off to his mate all through the film. I considered the options(I've played them all out at this stage) 1. tell him to stfu you plank(which results in fisticuffs and blue lights[usually]) 2. go walk the deck and have a cigarette and let it go. I walked the deck. Somtimes it's better to suffer in silence. The old me would have thrown him overboard.

SureYWouldntYa

ah stop complaining. will be alright, i know a woman with plenty of biscuits

I thought this thread was going to be about the biscuits.