In the restaurant at the hotel where I am staying, I was led by the Maitre d' to a nice 2 seater table near the window. I placed my laptop bag on the chair, and went to fill my plate.
On my return to the table I find a dainty woman's purse on the table. Obviously, some lady had come in my absence, and decided to occupy the table - and has now gone to fill up her own plate after leaving her purse on the table.
She had obviously seen my dashing George Clooney hair style and wanted my company at the table. Of course there was also the possibility (remote though I would like to believe) that she simply had failed to notice the laptop bag occupying the chair.
What do I do now? Do I ....
1.Quickly move her purse to an adjoining table, sit at my table and pretend nothing has happened?
2.Let her purse remain on the table, and when she comes to the table tell her that this table was already occupied, and therefore she should shift to another table?
3.Same as point 2, but tell her that she is free to join me at my table if she is so keen to sit there?
I ruled out action step 1 - it was sneaky and indirect. Action step 2 against a woman would be rude and against the Rao honor code. And Action step 3 was fraught with too many possibilities .............
In the end I decided on action step 4 - I took my laptop bag and myself to another table at the far end of the room. And then tried hard not to see who came to occupy my erstwhile table .....
On my return to the table I find a dainty woman's purse on the table. Obviously, some lady had come in my absence, and decided to occupy the table - and has now gone to fill up her own plate after leaving her purse on the table.
She had obviously seen my dashing George Clooney hair style and wanted my company at the table. Of course there was also the possibility (remote though I would like to believe) that she simply had failed to notice the laptop bag occupying the chair.
What do I do now? Do I ....
1.Quickly move her purse to an adjoining table, sit at my table and pretend nothing has happened?
2.Let her purse remain on the table, and when she comes to the table tell her that this table was already occupied, and therefore she should shift to another table?
3.Same as point 2, but tell her that she is free to join me at my table if she is so keen to sit there?
I ruled out action step 1 - it was sneaky and indirect. Action step 2 against a woman would be rude and against the Rao honor code. And Action step 3 was fraught with too many possibilities .............
In the end I decided on action step 4 - I took my laptop bag and myself to another table at the far end of the room. And then tried hard not to see who came to occupy my erstwhile table .....
2 comments:
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!! U should have tried the option 3 and then be on the receiving end at home for a loooooooooooong time to come :P
Heh Heh. If I went for option 3, I might have been at the receiving end at the hotel itself :)
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