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Hi, my name is Randy Hill and I am just one of thousands of people around the world, tired and frustrated with the lack of consideration that is displayed by a growing "demographic" that I call, "the great unwashed and ill-mannered." People who can't seem to get outside their little world long enough to see the stress that they create on the rest of the population.

I've created this blog and online store as an outlet for this pent-up frustration...and also to have a little devious fun while I'm at it!

Have fun and keep it down while you're in here. Thanks.

[When Randy isn't whining about noisy and rude people, he dreams up designs in his studio at Hill Design Studios. A native Texan, Randy resides in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest with his wife Dawn and four cats]


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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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