Deep down, I think most of the snarky people on this thread agree with OP and would be similarly annoyed at the early closing. They just want to be contrary for contrary's sake.

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Anonymous wrote:OP was wrong to demand service from a store that had already closed. Subway has no obligation to stay open if it doesn't want to be. I think the OP likely was speeding through the neighborhood, and then the parking lot, and probably ran up to the door thinking she had made it and this is one reason why she is so indignant. She has no right to be served and I am really surprised they re-opened the store for her. Then she had some nerve to then proceed to tell the workers how to do their job. In answer to her question, yes she was wrong. It's not even a close question.

I'll respond for OP: You should read the whole thread. Actually she was sitting in the parking lot for 15 minutes talking to her mom on the phone. So it was her own fault actually.

Anonymous wrote: OP here. For clarification, I dropped my son off at training at 7:15 (it starts at 7:30) and then went to subway. Sat in my car in parking lot for 15 minutes talking to MIL and then got out of my car and walked to Subway.

Wait a second - if you dropped your son off at 7:15, talked to MIL for 15 minutes, and got to the store at 7:55, that means it took you 25 minutes -- from 7:15 to 7:40 -- to get to the subway, or else you were prattling on to MIL for a whole lot longer than 15 minutes.

It could have been longer, I wasn't timing it. It felt like 15 minutes or so. This is pretty irrelevant anyway. The point is I got to the store 6 minutes before closing.

No the point is that you sat in your car and ran your mouth for so long you had 5 minutes til close to saunter in and order a sandwich. Then because you knew you were wrong you came on here looking for absolution and subtly tweaking your story so that you'll come across as more sympathetic. Reality is, you're the sort of obnoxious customer that most cashiers and food service workers hate.

Who cares how long OP talked to MIL. The point is, the restaurant was open till 8pm and she got to the door at 7:54. It was well within reason to expect a store with a posted closing time of 8pm to, in fact, be open till 8pm. There is nothing wrong with expecting a store to honor their posted operating hours. It is not reasonable to think - wow, I better hang up the phone because the workers may just decide to close Subway early today...

I'm recovering from a medical procedure with lots of time on my hands.

Yeah, I'm bailing, this thread is way too long.

Thanks for those that had constructive criticism and those that could see my point of view, much appreciate!

Adios!

Why is this thread still alive? OP you need a life, stop answering these stupid posts. You don't have to respond to every post.

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Anonymous wrote:OP was wrong to demand service from a store that had already closed. Subway has no obligation to stay open if it doesn't want to be. I think the OP likely was speeding through the neighborhood, and then the parking lot, and probably ran up to the door thinking she had made it and this is one reason why she is so indignant. She has no right to be served and I am really surprised they re-opened the store for her. Then she had some nerve to then proceed to tell the workers how to do their job. In answer to her question, yes she was wrong. It's not even a close question.

I'll respond for OP: You should read the whole thread. Actually she was sitting in the parking lot for 15 minutes talking to her mom on the phone. So it was her own fault actually.

Anonymous wrote: OP here. For clarification, I dropped my son off at training at 7:15 (it starts at 7:30) and then went to subway. Sat in my car in parking lot for 15 minutes talking to MIL and then got out of my car and walked to Subway.

Wait a second - if you dropped your son off at 7:15, talked to MIL for 15 minutes, and got to the store at 7:55, that means it took you 25 minutes -- from 7:15 to 7:40 -- to get to the subway, or else you were prattling on to MIL for a whole lot longer than 15 minutes.

It could have been longer, I wasn't timing it. It felt like 15 minutes or so. This is pretty irrelevant anyway. The point is I got to the store 6 minutes before closing.

No the point is that you sat in your car and ran your mouth for so long you had 5 minutes til close to saunter in and order a sandwich. Then because you knew you were wrong you came on here looking for absolution and subtly tweaking your story so that you'll come across as more sympathetic. Reality is, you're the sort of obnoxious customer that most cashiers and food service workers hate.

Really? You make no sense, I said numerous times I was open to the fact that I was wrong and later went on to admit that I actually larened through this thread that I wa in fact wrong. You sound bitter

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Anonymous wrote:The poor OP only had two hours and 5 minutes between when the Subway closed and when she had to pick up her DS from "training." No wonder she was so "desparate" [sic]. She has a car, two hours with nothing to do, and can't manage to find her snowflake anything to eat that's not made of meat anywhere in the DMV? Sorry, this story crumbles upon cross-examination. We are supposed to believe this Subway is the only place with food within a one-hour radius of the OP? The verdict is in. Reasonable alternatives were available. OP had no right to act obnoxiously. OP was wrong.

Wrong, so wrong. Try reading past the first few pages.

You're right, if you read later you realize that the OP miswrote the ending time for the class. This should say that she had only 1 hour and 5 minutes. Still plenty of time to find something.

It's possible the young women at Subway also had committments that made them feel "desparate". Maybe one or both were single moms with kids to pick up from daycare providers and get home to bed. Maybe they were students with big tests the next day. Maybe they were athletes who need their sleep for early a.m. swim training.

The time was not the only thing that you got wrong.

I'm 11:24 but not 11:07, so I'm not sure what you mean by "the time was not the only thing I got wrong". Could you please enlighten us as to which other facts are wrong? Is 7:55 to 9:00 not one hour and five minutes? Do you/she not have a car? Was the child not at "training"? I'm curious.

I never suggested that there was nothing within an hour radius. Hell, I live within an hour radius, I said that many times. So, that is wrong. I did go on to explain that because I drive 50 minutes to get there that I was not interested in driving too far away on a dark road in a place I was unfamiliar with, when I knew the subway was there. Once I exit off the highway I see the subway on the way. I also explained that in my mind I was right to pursue the issue with the girls at subway (plus I explained that some of a lot of my insistence was out of desperation – typically I probably would not have pursued the issue). I also went on to admit that I learned through this thread that those girls were more likely than not given the OK from their manager to shut down before closing time. Oh and “reasonable” is subjective. For me, leaving subway (which again, I believed should have been open since it was before the posted closing time) was not reasonable. The only other food place I saw once I got off the highway was Mcds and that was not an option.
The other thing is, you make it sound like I’m trying to convince people I was right. I also stated in this thread that I was only responding for clarification purposes, not trying to convince – just give people an idea of where I was coming from and why I did what I did. Perhaps it would make a difference in people’s responses, perhaps not. But that is why I was responding and clarifying. Personally my pet peeve is when people start threads and never come back to answer questions or respond to comments. I also already stated the reason I started the thread is because I was totally open to the fact that I was wrong and I wanted opinions.

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Anonymous wrote:OP was wrong to demand service from a store that had already closed. Subway has no obligation to stay open if it doesn't want to be. I think the OP likely was speeding through the neighborhood, and then the parking lot, and probably ran up to the door thinking she had made it and this is one reason why she is so indignant. She has no right to be served and I am really surprised they re-opened the store for her. Then she had some nerve to then proceed to tell the workers how to do their job. In answer to her question, yes she was wrong. It's not even a close question.

I'll respond for OP: You should read the whole thread. Actually she was sitting in the parking lot for 15 minutes talking to her mom on the phone. So it was her own fault actually.

Anonymous wrote: OP here. For clarification, I dropped my son off at training at 7:15 (it starts at 7:30) and then went to subway. Sat in my car in parking lot for 15 minutes talking to MIL and then got out of my car and walked to Subway.

Wait a second - if you dropped your son off at 7:15, talked to MIL for 15 minutes, and got to the store at 7:55, that means it took you 25 minutes -- from 7:15 to 7:40 -- to get to the subway, or else you were prattling on to MIL for a whole lot longer than 15 minutes.

It could have been longer, I wasn't timing it. It felt like 15 minutes or so. This is pretty irrelevant anyway. The point is I got to the store 6 minutes before closing.

No the point is that you sat in your car and ran your mouth for so long you had 5 minutes til close to saunter in and order a sandwich. Then because you knew you were wrong you came on here looking for absolution and subtly tweaking your story so that you'll come across as more sympathetic. Reality is, you're the sort of obnoxious customer that most cashiers and food service workers hate.

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Anonymous wrote:OP was wrong to demand service from a store that had already closed. Subway has no obligation to stay open if it doesn't want to be. I think the OP likely was speeding through the neighborhood, and then the parking lot, and probably ran up to the door thinking she had made it and this is one reason why she is so indignant. She has no right to be served and I am really surprised they re-opened the store for her. Then she had some nerve to then proceed to tell the workers how to do their job. In answer to her question, yes she was wrong. It's not even a close question.

I'll respond for OP: You should read the whole thread. Actually she was sitting in the parking lot for 15 minutes talking to her mom on the phone. So it was her own fault actually.

Anonymous wrote: OP here. For clarification, I dropped my son off at training at 7:15 (it starts at 7:30) and then went to subway. Sat in my car in parking lot for 15 minutes talking to MIL and then got out of my car and walked to Subway.

Wait a second - if you dropped your son off at 7:15, talked to MIL for 15 minutes, and got to the store at 7:55, that means it took you 25 minutes -- from 7:15 to 7:40 -- to get to the subway, or else you were prattling on to MIL for a whole lot longer than 15 minutes.

Seriously, pp. WTF cares? You sound like a douchebag.

Whether or not the OP had time to find alternatives is not the issue. It is NOT okay for a store to close early, in the face of waiting customers. The only time I've heard of stores closing early is when they're "dead". This Subway had customers inside, so they should not have had a need to close early.

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Anonymous wrote:The poor OP only had two hours and 5 minutes between when the Subway closed and when she had to pick up her DS from "training." No wonder she was so "desparate" [sic]. She has a car, two hours with nothing to do, and can't manage to find her snowflake anything to eat that's not made of meat anywhere in the DMV? Sorry, this story crumbles upon cross-examination. We are supposed to believe this Subway is the only place with food within a one-hour radius of the OP? The verdict is in. Reasonable alternatives were available. OP had no right to act obnoxiously. OP was wrong.

Wrong, so wrong. Try reading past the first few pages.

You're right, if you read later you realize that the OP miswrote the ending time for the class. This should say that she had only 1 hour and 5 minutes. Still plenty of time to find something.

It's possible the young women at Subway also had committments that made them feel "desparate". Maybe one or both were single moms with kids to pick up from daycare providers and get home to bed. Maybe they were students with big tests the next day. Maybe they were athletes who need their sleep for early a.m. swim training.

The time was not the only thing that you got wrong.

I'm 11:24 but not 11:07, so I'm not sure what you mean by "the time was not the only thing I got wrong". Could you please enlighten us as to which other facts are wrong? Is 7:55 to 9:00 not one hour and five minutes? Do you/she not have a car? Was the child not at "training"? I'm curious.

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Anonymous wrote:"No I wasnt going to DIE without subway but I was pretty desparate. My son has training sessions that are 50 minutes from my house. The sessions are from 7:30 to 10pm."

First, the OP says the above. Then later she changes it to 9. Who knows what the real story is. What I do know is that there is more than a little sock-puppetting going on here. OP's support is one-deep.

It must be nice to be so perfect that you never ever type anything wrong and have to go back and correct it. You are being ridiculous. I already admitted that in light of what people posted in this thread I was in fact wrong for asking the store to be re-openned, however I did at the time believe I was in the right. I'm guessing you didnt read that far into the thread though.

And for furhter clarification, the reason I typed 10pm the first time is because that's what time we actually get back home. Often times when i'm talking to people I refer to the fact that the training gets us home at 10pm. So yes, my mistake but it wasnt an unreasonable mistake.

Anonymous wrote:"No I wasnt going to DIE without subway but I was pretty desparate. My son has training sessions that are 50 minutes from my house. The sessions are from 7:30 to 10pm."

First, the OP says the above. Then later she changes it to 9. Who knows what the real story is. What I do know is that there is more than a little sock-puppetting going on here. OP's support is one-deep.

It must be nice to be so perfect that you never ever type anything wrong and have to go back and correct it. You are being ridiculous. I already admitted that in light of what people posted in this thread I was in fact wrong for asking the store to be re-openned, however I did at the time believe I was in the right. I'm guessing you didnt read that far into the thread though.

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Anonymous wrote:OP was wrong to demand service from a store that had already closed. Subway has no obligation to stay open if it doesn't want to be. I think the OP likely was speeding through the neighborhood, and then the parking lot, and probably ran up to the door thinking she had made it and this is one reason why she is so indignant. She has no right to be served and I am really surprised they re-opened the store for her. Then she had some nerve to then proceed to tell the workers how to do their job. In answer to her question, yes she was wrong. It's not even a close question.

I'll respond for OP: You should read the whole thread. Actually she was sitting in the parking lot for 15 minutes talking to her mom on the phone. So it was her own fault actually.

Anonymous wrote: OP here. For clarification, I dropped my son off at training at 7:15 (it starts at 7:30) and then went to subway. Sat in my car in parking lot for 15 minutes talking to MIL and then got out of my car and walked to Subway.

Wait a second - if you dropped your son off at 7:15, talked to MIL for 15 minutes, and got to the store at 7:55, that means it took you 25 minutes -- from 7:15 to 7:40 -- to get to the subway, or else you were prattling on to MIL for a whole lot longer than 15 minutes.

It could have been longer, I wasn't timing it. It felt like 15 minutes or so. This is pretty irrelevant anyway. The point is I got to the store 6 minutes before closing.

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Anonymous wrote:OP was wrong to demand service from a store that had already closed. Subway has no obligation to stay open if it doesn't want to be. I think the OP likely was speeding through the neighborhood, and then the parking lot, and probably ran up to the door thinking she had made it and this is one reason why she is so indignant. She has no right to be served and I am really surprised they re-opened the store for her. Then she had some nerve to then proceed to tell the workers how to do their job. In answer to her question, yes she was wrong. It's not even a close question.

I'll respond for OP: You should read the whole thread. Actually she was sitting in the parking lot for 15 minutes talking to her mom on the phone. So it was her own fault actually.

Anonymous wrote: OP here. For clarification, I dropped my son off at training at 7:15 (it starts at 7:30) and then went to subway. Sat in my car in parking lot for 15 minutes talking to MIL and then got out of my car and walked to Subway.

Wait a second - if you dropped your son off at 7:15, talked to MIL for 15 minutes, and got to the store at 7:55, that means it took you 25 minutes -- from 7:15 to 7:40 -- to get to the subway, or else you were prattling on to MIL for a whole lot longer than 15 minutes.

"No I wasnt going to DIE without subway but I was pretty desparate. My son has training sessions that are 50 minutes from my house. The sessions are from 7:30 to 10pm."

First, the OP says the above. Then later she changes it to 9. Who knows what the real story is. What I do know is that there is more than a little sock-puppetting going on here. OP's support is one-deep.