Montreal is weird.

I just got bitched at for trying to take a woman's chair. I'll admit it was rude to take it without asking (I was distracted and the chair was just far enough from her table [she emphasized for me that it was HERS] for me to not immediately think about it), however I do not think I deserved the dressing down she gave me for it, even after I apologized and offered to put it back (again, I admit I'm guilty of perhaps eventually making a face when she would just NOT DROP IT). "Luckily", there was a "nice" man sitting nearby who "kindly" intervened and caused the thing to escalate into a shouting match between the two, ending with him calling the woman a cow.

The only positive side in all of this is that while they were verbally duking it out, I was able to discretely slide the chair back to its original spot (where it has remained, untouched) , slip back to my seat and put my headphones on mostly unnoticed. Added bonus, I think I was the only one of the three who didn't come off as a complete asshole to the rest of the coffee shop.

Throughout the whole thing, all I could think of was that I have 6 pages to write on my essay. I DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR FUCKING CHAIR LADY.