# would you have moved, who was rude **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577 "2014-10-06T19:24:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/41 "2014-10-07T02:36:25Z")
Mom, rude. Kid, clueless. You, innocent victim. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/42 "2014-10-07T02:38:16Z")
I _might_ have moved, depending entirely upon my gut reaction to the kid and how he asked. If my snap impression was of a nice kid who liked to keep a tradition with his mom, then I probably would have moved. But if the way he asked gave me the feeling he believed he was entitled to sit there, then too bad, he could go sit somewhere else. The mom was definitely rude for staring ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/43 "2014-10-07T02:45:22Z")
I don’t think you were rude for not moving, but I would have. If there were plenty of empty seats but he said that that particular table was his and his mom’s, I’d assume that there was some sort of history associated with that table for them. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/44 "2014-10-07T03:53:57Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I would have bought all of the apple pies so there none left for the kid. :golfclap: ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/45 "2014-10-07T07:43:57Z")
I’m trying to understand how this kid and his mom thought the table was theirs. It wasn’t - it belonged to the restaurant, and you were using it. I think the kid’s request was astoundingly presumptuous, and the mother’s behavior was beyond rude. It sounds like there’s something wrong with these two people. The kid has an excuse, being a kid. The mother doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/46 "2014-10-07T08:37:35Z")
If he asked politely, and moving isn’t that big a hassle, then sure, why not? There’s nothing wrong with making a kid happy. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/47 "2014-10-07T08:56:46Z")
Would I have moved? If he had asked extremely politely, I might have considered it. Was it rude? He wasn’t rude to ask. You weren’t rude to refuse. The mother was rude for giving you dagger eyes. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/48 "2014-10-07T10:05:17Z")
I wouldn’t have moved without a compelling reason, but then I’m an old grouch. Like others, I don’t think the kid was rude - it’s not like he came over and said “Move it, bitch, this is MY table!!” But it did seem to be an odd request and I’m thinking Mommy was behind it all. She sounds like a real piece of work. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/49 "2014-10-07T12:03:41Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > I _might_ have moved, depending entirely upon my gut reaction to the kid and how he asked. If my snap impression was of a nice kid who liked to keep a tradition with his mom, then I probably would have moved. But if the way he asked gave me the feeling he believed he was entitled to sit there, then too bad, he could go sit somewhere else. > > The mom was definitely rude for staring I think exactly this. People, even arsehole entitled twats don’t behave like this without some sort of reason or history - I probably would have been so nonplussed that I would just have moved, or would have blurted out a confused “Why?” ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/50 "2014-10-07T12:08:21Z")
> [@Jake\_Jones](#): > > I disagree with those who think the kid wasn’t rude for asking. You don’t interrupt strangers while they’re eating, even at McDonald’s. You especially don’t interrupt strangers while they’re eating to ask them to find another place to sit because you prefer to sit at the table they’re already eating at. > > If there were extenuating circumstances, the request should have been preceded by an apology for interrupting and accompanied by an explanation of the circumstances, even from a 10 year old kid. And fuck the mom for giving you the hairy eyeball. > > I think you did very well to not reciprocate the rudeness, especially from the mother. I don’t know whether I would have shown the same restraint. I was trying to think how to word all of this last night, and failed, so I’ll just +1 this this morning. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/51 "2014-10-07T12:18:01Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Weird requests deserve weird responses. > > I’d scootch over and offer to let them sit with us. I would have offered to move for five of his fries, or maybe a sip of his shake. No free rides. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/52 "2014-10-07T12:25:31Z")
I would have asked what made the table special and then made my decision based on his answer. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/53 "2014-10-07T13:39:50Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I would have asked what made the table special and then made my decision based on his answer. Honestly, my first thought when reading the OP was that the kid had some kind of OCD and would be all messed up if he couldn’t sit at “his” table. Like Sheldon’s “spot” on the couch. My husband and I go to a diner for breakfast on Saturdays and it’s one of those old-timey places full of regulars who always sit in the same spots. If we get there at a different time and someone is in “our” seats it really does feel weird to sit somewhere else. One time we sat on the other side of the u-shaped counter and the owner was all “Go sit over there! It doesn’t feel right when you’re on this side.” I can totally see a little kid (or special needs kid) who hasn’t been taught social graces yet asking for “his” regular seat. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/54 "2014-10-07T14:01:39Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > No guilty conscience here, the mother really was staring daggers at me. Every time I looked up there she was, staring right into my eyes. It’s McDonald’s. You get burgers, you get fries, sometimes you get a grimace. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/55 "2014-10-07T14:48:40Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > They ended up sitting in the booth in front of me, the mother staring at me with dagger eyes the entire time until I set my sandwich down and stared back hard at her. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t recommend this kind of snark, but in this case, I think you’d be justified in growling at her, “How often are you taking your kid to this damn McDonalds that he has a _usual table_!?” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/56 "2014-10-07T15:41:34Z")
I think I would have moved, but I’d have to ask the kid why he wanted that particular table. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/57 "2014-10-07T19:15:59Z")
This type of thing has never happened to me or to anyone I have been with. I wonder why? \< VEG \> ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/58 "2014-10-07T20:21:47Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It’s McDonald’s. You get burgers, you get fries, sometimes you get a grimace. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/59 "2014-10-07T20:30:45Z")
The proper response would be to answers "Of course, just as soon as we finish our meal. You don’t mind waiting do you? Or letting people use your table when you aren’t here? Then take it from there. Also, the only real question is “Was his Mom hot?”, because that is the real question. If she was hot then move, but if she wasn’t then bitch slap the kid and tell him his Mom is a whore. None of the above is serious, in case you couldn’t tell. Except the first part. Except who can think that fast? Also, any time you are eating at McDonalds you deserve whatever shit crazy drama happens. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577/60 "2014-10-07T21:05:48Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > If he asked politely, and moving isn’t that big a hassle, then sure, why not? Because now you are reinforcing to the kid that he can be an entitled little shit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-moved-who-was-rude/700577.md?page=4)