I just don’t understand some people.
By Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (14337)
Ireland
September 9, 2025 3:29am CST
The car’s in for a service today so I’m on foot and all the better for it. So much more to notice when one is on foot walking through town. I’ve parked myself in a cafe that actually does a cappuccino that is recognisable as such and I’m enjoying it along with the German biscuit pictured above - I hope it’s as good as it looks.
The cafe was empty when I entered - one of its advantages - but just now a woman has entered with a baby and has plonked herself at the table next to mine and has actually woken the sleeping baby to bounce him about on her knee. Can you believe anyone would do that? She obviously hasn’t heard the proverb ‘let sleeping babies lie’.
I’ll be out of here as soon I’ve finished my coffee.
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@DaddyEvil (159680)
• United States
9 Sep
I wouldn't want to be close to a baby that was waked for no reason... And I've never understood why people come into a restaurant/café and sit close to somebody else when they could have chosen any other seat(s) in the entire restaurant/café.
Pretty and I sat in an empty restaurant once and some dude and his friend sat in the next booth behind us and then loudly talked about disgusting things so we had to listen to them. We got up and moved as far from them as possible. The waitress came over and apologized to us for their loudness and the subject they chose to discuss... We could still hear them as they seemed to talk louder after we moved. We didn't even wait for our order but got up and told the waitress to charge them for the meal we didn't eat and we left.
There was no reason for them to be so rude or so loud.
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@xFiacre (14337)
• Ireland
9 Sep
@daddyevil I don’t get why people talk so loudly in public places as if everyone else wants to hear their business. Same thing happened to uss in a very nice restaurant. We moved but could still hear the man going through the entire alphabet of naughty words. We complained to the waitress who apologised but didn’t seem to think she could do anything. The man’s wife looked extremely uncomfortable and embarrassed, but I guess she was afraid to ask him to moderate.
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@DaddyEvil (159680)
• United States
9 Sep
@xFiacre Some people are just so rude and tone deaf to the desires of the other people around them.
I and my friends quieted our conversations and leaned closer together so people around us couldn't hear what we were talking about... It wasn't their business anyway so why talk so they could hear the conversation?
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@RasmaSandra (88929)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Sep
Words fail me about that woman, It was best for the baby to remain sleeping,
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@xFiacre (14337)
• Ireland
9 Sep
@rasmasandra First rule of surviving parenthood - DON’T WAKEN THE BABY.
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@Traceyjayne (5251)
• United Kingdom
10 Sep
I don’t understand why she had to sit next to you in an empty cafe. Also why, wake a baby in a public place .
@xFiacre (14337)
• Ireland
10 Sep
@traceyjayne Some folk just aren’t well. Any time we go to a Chinese restaurant which is rare, for this reason, the waiter always seats us right beside the only other couple in the place. And you can’t ask for a different table because the other couple might wonder why you don’t want to side next to them. Isn’t life so complicated?
@Traceyjayne (5251)
• United Kingdom
10 Sep
@xFiacre I wouldn’t worry about that …I’d just ask to sit, near the window , or away from the door, ……I would think of a reason.
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@LindaOHio (200670)
• United States
10 Sep
Why would she sit with a baby right next to you? Makes no sense.
