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Take it outside
By Randy | May 28, 2007
I had lunch the other day in a popular little Japanese restaurant around the corner from where I work. Lunchtime can be pretty noisy there. It’s a small place in a strip mall and does a lot of take-out orders from a nearby school. It’s the kind of place where all the table conversations create such a din that you probably wouldn’t even take notice of a person talking on a cell.
One person managed to stand out. She was talking on her cell phone while pacing back and forth near the take-out counter. I had managed to screen out all the other noise going on in the restaurant and was reading the paper between bites of chicken teriyaki, yet she managed to cut through.
When she finally finished the call and put away her phone, she looked around and announced, “Sorry…that was probably pretty loud.”
Yes, it was. She didn’t ask for my advice, but if she had, I would have suggested that she take the phone conversation outside the restaurant door where she wouldn’t feel like she had to shout to be heard and I could read my paper in peace.
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