'There was a queue of people waiting to be seated!': Entitled customers think they don't have to wait like everyone else

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    Font - Posted by u/KelemvorSparkyfox 2 days ago Boomers think they don't have to wait S 2 In Manchester for the weekend with a partner, and we booked a table at MO Coffee for brunch with friends. We arrived fifteen minutes before the booked time (11:00), and they were turning away walk ins until 12:30. Just as our friends arrived, an older couple walked up, walked past the queue of people waiting, and sat themselves down. This disheartened us, as we were hoping to sit outside and they'd just cla
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    Font - of boomers, and started. They turned back to us and said, "One moment - I'll check." Then they went over to talk to the couple. "Hi, have you booked?" "No?" "Okay, we're booked up until 12:30 today unless you have a reservation." Thankfully, they didn't kick up much of a fuss, but the woman did claim that it was okay, because she used to work at the building next door... MO Coffee is insanely popular. There is a sign telling you to wait to be seated, and there was a queue of people waitin
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    Font - Cfwydirk 1 day ago Some are A holes because people let them get away with it. And it's not just boomers. 346 Reply Share nohairday 1 day ago . I second this. 127 ... Unfortunately, being a complete dick is universal, I don't think you'll be able to find any group or subset of people that doesn't have some people in it that are complete dicks. Reply Share
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    Font - boneymeroney. 1 day ago I'm a boomer. It's annoying to see people my age acting like entitled idiots. But...it's not just a specific age. Entitlement knows no boundaries. 56 Reply Share Scrapper-Mom. 17 hr. ago I'm a boomer too and I was raised to have a really strong sense of fairness. And skipping the line isn't fair at all. I always ask someone if they were in line first before just striding up to the counter. It's my tiny way to try to sew good karma. Reply Share 2
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    Font - SusanMShwartz. 1 day ago That's AH behavior. Speaking as a Boomer, I make reservations, and they are old enough and experienced enough to do so too. Reply Share 16
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    Font - AgreeableRadish4829 · 1 day ago I use a rolator to get around. Was trying to exit an elevator at a doctor's office when 2 30ish people pushed past me saying "out of the way, working people coming through". So yeah, it's not exclusive. 15 Reply Share
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    Font - 1 day ago Born 1948 and I've patiently waited for others many times. I've also made mistakes and committed social faux pas' by the dozens, as you will too as you go on in years. womanitou Denigrating an entire generation of people serves no purpose other than to dehumanize others for someone's own ends/purposes. I expect you are not evil; so please think before you box up millions of folks into one category and then throw stones at them all. If that couple were deliberately being obtuse t
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    Font - Repulsive_Raise6728 1 day ago Hahaha. "I used to work at the building next door." What?!? 8 Reply Share KelemvorSparkyfox OP 1 day ago That was what really made it stick. 2 ↓ Reply Share

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