Here, let me get my stuff off your table
Jul 10, 2012 | 8:19 am
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Here, let me get my stuff off your table
This is not really a rant, I guess because I just find the situation funny.
Come down for breakfast this morning. There are plenty of tables free. I place my kindle on the table and order my coffee pot from the wait staff. Then it is off to fill my plate (if you have met me, it is obvious that I fill my plate a little too much).
Now I come back to my table and find somwone has placed a nice bowl of fruit there. Not at one of the 3 free places at the table, but right next to my kindle and my full coffee cup. Now, sometimes I have received an surprise fresh orange juice from the wait staff for some unknown reason, but never a fruit plate.
I back away from the table and wait a little bit to see if somebody will appear. Of course, some late 20's/early 30's guy sits down, oders a pot of tea and proceeds to tuck in to his fruit plate.
I walk just a few tables over and put my plate and juice down. Back over to my original table and give the guy a "excuse, but let me get my kindle and my coffee off my table so that you have more room". Not a word from the guy, just a blank stare. Even the wait staff pulled a few faces at the guy as I went to my new table.
It has been years since I have had this happened, but it never ceases to amaze me. I can understand not seeing something in a chair or on the floor, but on the table? Especially a kindle, which is not something that you figure the guy before you left and if you did you wuould give it to the staff. Oh well. The joys of travel. On other occasions I have even had people remove my jacket from the back of the chair and put it somewhere else (another table, shelf, another chair) but almost never when my stuff is there on the table top.
Come down for breakfast this morning. There are plenty of tables free. I place my kindle on the table and order my coffee pot from the wait staff. Then it is off to fill my plate (if you have met me, it is obvious that I fill my plate a little too much).
Now I come back to my table and find somwone has placed a nice bowl of fruit there. Not at one of the 3 free places at the table, but right next to my kindle and my full coffee cup. Now, sometimes I have received an surprise fresh orange juice from the wait staff for some unknown reason, but never a fruit plate.
I back away from the table and wait a little bit to see if somebody will appear. Of course, some late 20's/early 30's guy sits down, oders a pot of tea and proceeds to tuck in to his fruit plate.
I walk just a few tables over and put my plate and juice down. Back over to my original table and give the guy a "excuse, but let me get my kindle and my coffee off my table so that you have more room". Not a word from the guy, just a blank stare. Even the wait staff pulled a few faces at the guy as I went to my new table.
It has been years since I have had this happened, but it never ceases to amaze me. I can understand not seeing something in a chair or on the floor, but on the table? Especially a kindle, which is not something that you figure the guy before you left and if you did you wuould give it to the staff. Oh well. The joys of travel. On other occasions I have even had people remove my jacket from the back of the chair and put it somewhere else (another table, shelf, another chair) but almost never when my stuff is there on the table top.
Jul 10, 2012 | 8:28 am
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It has been years since I have had this happened, but it never ceases to amaze me. I can understand not seeing something in a chair or on the floor, but on the table? Especially a kindle, which is not something that you figure the guy before you left and if you did you wuould give it to the staff.
Funny story though.
Jul 10, 2012 | 8:59 am
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Weird.
Almost makes me wonder if the guy was also a Kindle user and subconsciously thought that was his Kindle. Sort of like how I've tried to get into the wrong rented Taurus on more than one occasion...
But even this explanation doesn't make a *lot* of sense. "The guy was just totally zoned out" is probably the simplest explanation.
Almost makes me wonder if the guy was also a Kindle user and subconsciously thought that was his Kindle. Sort of like how I've tried to get into the wrong rented Taurus on more than one occasion...
But even this explanation doesn't make a *lot* of sense. "The guy was just totally zoned out" is probably the simplest explanation.
Jul 10, 2012 | 9:19 am
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Jul 11, 2012 | 3:36 pm
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Weird.
Almost makes me wonder if the guy was also a Kindle user and subconsciously thought that was his Kindle. Sort of like how I've tried to get into the wrong rented Taurus on more than one occasion...
But even this explanation doesn't make a *lot* of sense. "The guy was just totally zoned out" is probably the simplest explanation.
Almost makes me wonder if the guy was also a Kindle user and subconsciously thought that was his Kindle. Sort of like how I've tried to get into the wrong rented Taurus on more than one occasion...
But even this explanation doesn't make a *lot* of sense. "The guy was just totally zoned out" is probably the simplest explanation.
Jul 16, 2012 | 9:09 am
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Similar experience at the old UC RCC at FRA (thankfully, gone forever). Typical busy morning, and I put my jacket and carryon bag on a chair while I went to find some of the stuff that they tried to pass off as food.
Came back to find someone sitting in my chair with my jacket and bag on the floor.
Came back to find someone sitting in my chair with my jacket and bag on the floor.
Jul 16, 2012 | 9:23 pm
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It seems the larger oddity is that the OP states there were plenty of open tables.
I would have picked another table, even if the items on the appeared to be old and discarded. But they certainly seemed to be fresh and perhaps the owner was getting more food.
Maybe he was clueless or maybe he was lonely and hoping for some company?
I would have picked another table, even if the items on the appeared to be old and discarded. But they certainly seemed to be fresh and perhaps the owner was getting more food.
Maybe he was clueless or maybe he was lonely and hoping for some company?