Cheeky behaviour

When I came out of The Boat Inn in Thrupp, where we had managed to get the last mooring space, I was surprised to see our boat had moved up some 20 feet. I was approached by a young woman from the newly moored boat behind us, who apologetically explained that she was having a mattress delivered to her boat the next morning and needed to be near the roadside so was forced to move us with the help of the people on the boat in front of us who also had to move. She was so polite and repeated that it was not the sort of thing she would ever normally do that I just went with it. However by the time Pete joined me after finishing his pint and he was none too happy, I had reconsidered the etiquette of doing this. They had had to remove our carefully positioned mooring pins and undo ropes on our decks which involves climbing on board. In any other situation (i.e: a house) this would surely be trespassing. It seems petty to be troubled by it but I fail to see why she couldn't have asked in the pub first to see if we were there so that we were given the chance to move it ourselves. It's pretty obvious that that was where we were likely to be. And I couldn't help thinking that if it were us awaiting a delivery, we would have made sure we got to that very popular mooring much earlier in the day to ensure we got in.

This sounds like a pathetic whinge, but sometimes boat people are a little too casual.

Location:Thrupp