Italian woman refuses to share her café table with couple, they ignore her and sit anyway, she publicly confronts them: ‘I want to sit alone, ask someone else’

Imagine you're alone at a café, sitting at a four-person table, and someone comes up asking to sit with you—how would you respond?

Some people think that once you sit at a table, you have every right to decide whether or not you want someone else to occupy that space, and if you are not up for sharing, that is totally acceptable. Other people believe that taking up unnecessary space in public is quite entitled, and if someone asks you to share, the least you can do is say yes.

These two groups are exactly the two sides debating about the story below. When a woman in an Italian café refused to share her 4-person table with another couple, she thought she was being reasonable. The other couple, and many others who have read her story, thought she acted unnecessarily entitled, believing she should have let the strangers share her table with her.

What do you think? Scroll down to read the full story and let us know in the comments below.

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While we don't think the woman had to agree to share her table, we do think they could have found a middle ground. She could have offered the couple to take the chairs and sit somewhere else, for example, and keep the table itself. There was no reason to make anyone uncomfortable…