Waffle House

My husband and I went to this location to grab some breakfast after I got off work at 6 am. We were probably there a total of 30 minutes altogether. We weren't even outside 5 minutes when the manager approached us asking if he could help us (we were smoking a cigarette towards the back of the building away from door out of respect of other customers who might not smoke) We answered no, we're waiting on Julie to get back from the store right now (sister in law, rockstar there). Well I was sitting on a milk crate because I have been running around at work all night and my back was killing me. We weren't bothering customers by being obnoxious or asking for money. Rather than approach us nicely to inform us that it's a safety hazard for me to be sitting on the crate (if it even is) he said we should of walked to the store with her instead of loitering. Excuse me we were paying customers less than 10 minutes ago. There were about 3 homeless people hanging out on the sidewalk between the waffle house and store who weren't approached for loitering and didn't buy anything. I wasn't aware of the fact that we couldn't enjoy a cigarette after we were JUST inside being a PAYING CUSTOMER! I've never heard of such a thing at all before. NEVER had any issues before he was just being rude and petty because Julie's 2 weeks are almost over and they don't want her to leave.