A woman has been slammed for expecting the "world to revolve around her" because she is eight months pregnant. She explained how she was craving an ice cream so she drove to a shopping centre to visit her favourite store and pick up the one she'd been thinking about all day.
But after placing her order, she quickly realised there wasn't anywhere for her to sit. She said: "I often get quite tired when I stand or walk for long periods of time. Unfortunately, the place was quite crowded, and all of the tables surrounding the shop, as well as some nearby sofas were taken. Because of that, after getting my ice cream, I decided to sit on one of two massage chairs that were close and eat it there."
However as soon as she started tucking into her ice cream, she was approached by a couple in their late teens who wanted to use the massage chairs.
They politely asked her to move - but she bluntly refused.
"They asked me to get off the chair, since I wasn't getting a massage and they wanted to receive such a service together, which I refused to do," she added on Reddit.
"In return, I offered to leave once I finished eating, or if they found me a different place to sit since I could not stand for more than a few minutes at a time and had a relatively large dessert that I wanted to finish."
However, the teenage girl didn't take too kindly to the woman's refusal and told her "the world doesn't revolve around her just because she's pregnant".
The woman said: "She then asked her partner to get a security guard, and a few moments later, he came with such an employee.
"The guard took my side, and asked the couple to either take turns using the second massage chair, or wait for me to finish eating, which upset the girl quite a bit.
"She accused me of being selfish and preventing the owner of the chairs from earning money, and left with her partner."
When the pregnant woman got home, she told her sisters what happened - with one claiming she was in the wrong and the other saying she did the right thing.
"Upon telling this story to my younger sister, she told me that I should have gone to the ice cream stand when the shopping centre was less crowded, if I wasn't able to eat while standing," she added.
"However, my older sister believes that I had every right to sit on the massage chair if all the other spots were taken, and the couple was being unreasonable. Because of that, I'm not sure if I am the one in the wrong in this situation."
Agreeing with her older sister, one user said: "You're depriving the person who put those chairs in, and the mall (since I presume the money is split between the two) of the fundamental reason why those chairs are there. They are there to make money - and you're depriving them of doing so."
Another user added: "Let me put this situation in another context - the massage chairs are a business.
"Someone installed those with the goal of making money from people paying to use the massage function.
"Would you take your ice cream from one store and go sit at the tables of another restaurant and refuse to vacate when someone else wants to use that table to eat at that restaurant? That's what you did here."
A third user said: "It’s not like it was a regular chair. It provides a specific service and you weren’t using it for that. Someone else wanted to. That’s what makes you wrong here.
"If it was a regular chair I would say you’re well within your rights to stay there. Not this specific circumstance though."
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