This is pretty petty TBH.

ESH.

If you’re done with your food and get up, just leave the table and take your trash with you. Go sit on a bench or chill in your car or go to a starbucks if you wanna chill for the last bit of your break. It’s rude to sit and hold a table in a busy restaurant if you’re done.

On their end though, it was super douchey to take someone’s table without making sure they were done and then to be bitchy about your trash on top of that.

No decency was had in this exchange – ESH.

In my opinion ESH.
1. You’re leaving extra work for the staff to do, since these girls probably didn’t throw the trash out for you
2. Honestly, what is the point of occupying a table when you’re not even eating anymore and the place is crowded? You could just have gone elsewhere to spend the rest of your lunch break.

They were assholes too for not apologizing for taking a table that was occupied. Even if they needed it it’s just polite to apologize and be nice in this case.

YTA
1. No one really cares about your lunch break. It sounds childish to assume others care or should care about how you spend your lunch break.
2. You were going to camp at a busy restaurant? That’s assholery for sure. While other people stood with their food? Restaurants post signs about your behavior to prevent it.
3. They spoke to you and explained things and you pouted and sassed off. I hope you flipped your hair on the way out!

Yes, of course YTA. You left a table, finished eating and then went back to camp a table in a restaurant that was so busy that two girls sat at a table with trash on it. When you came back they didn’t ignore you, according to your own story they told you there were no more open seats. Then you left your trash and walked out.

Of course you were the asshole, for a handful of reasons.

ESH. They shouldn’t have jumped on your table, but if you were done eating you should have been on your way out. During the lunch rush, there’s an expectation that people will vacate their table once they’re done eating. They weren’t out of bounds to assume you were done with the table, but they were rude so I get why you responded like that.

NTA, I’m petty so I would have either brought a chair over if that was an option or just stood there for 20 minutes interjecting in their conversation like I knew them. Or I would have waited for one of them to throw away my trash and sit in their seat. What you did was a little too passive for my liking.😅

NTA

If they choose a table with trash on it, then you don’t owe them a thing

If someone took my drink from me, I decided “It’s not worth the fight” so I turned and walked away, and then they tried to flag me down and ask me to throw away the cup for them, I would just laugh

NTA – Assuming they were as bitchy about it as you’ve implied here and weren’t saying it in a “We had no choice, would it be okay if we sat here too?” way, then they should have handled it more politely.

NTA. If you had gotten up to leave, and they said, excuse me, are you leaving? and then you left without dealing with your trash, then you would have been. But in this case, definitely not.

NTA. Not sure why they were sitting at a table with trash in it (assuming like your tray was still there) seems like a good sign someone is sitting there.

YTA. Yeah, it’s technically justified. But still.

Also, you were going to sit there at peak for 20 minutes? That kind of seems inconsiderate too.

NTA, you left your trash because you weren’t leaving the table yet. If they thought it was unoccupied and sat there, it’s their trash now.

ESH.

Personally, I would’ve done the same petty thing because fuck them, but you need to clean up after yourself.

NTA. I mean, yes, you’re the asshole, but it’s justified assholery. You’re the asshole the city needs right now.

ESH, but you are a bigger one because you planned to stay there for 20min after eating in a packed restaurant