Loudmouth

This piece was the funniest, and sadly so true.

The rudeness that the invention of personal cell phones caused (as opposed to “car” phones… remember them?) is uncontrollable. Recently when I took my dad out to dinner a woman sitting many, many, tables over had her cell phone ring. She had to answer, but politely stood up and walked from her dinner companions to be more private. She walked and walked until she was standing just over my shoulder, talking loudly. I was horrified that she thought it was all right, polite even, to walk from her table, but to walk over to another one and annoy those people. My dad,  who is 90% deaf,  motioned that I had a frown on my face. Just then I stood up to tell her we were still in the same lovely, quiet, dining room that she was when seated at her own table, but she snapped her clam shut and toddled off! Everyone looked at me with that “go after her and kick her butt”  look, but I wondered what made them sit in their seats afraid to say something.