Proper Etiquette Notwithstood
Oct. 22nd, 2007 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenIt's kind of sad in a way, but I'm discovering things of my dad's personality (obnoxious things) that are becoming more and more evident in my personality. I'm trying to stop their development and foothold! One was a a couple of months ago with me getting irritated at music in a grocery store (I'll post that later because my sister thinks it is a funny story).
Last night Matt and I were seated at a midtown restaurant (Esca: I mentioned in my post from yesterday), and within 5 minutes, two women were seated at the table next to us, which was about 6 inches from my right/Matt's left. We didn't acknowledge them and in fact from their interaction with the waiter, it seemed that they were kinda bitchy - not someone I'd wanna interact with.
Matt and I ordered our food, got our drinks, and started talking about Thanksgiving dinner, and other things. Well, the women next to us were talking about something. I couldn't care less what their topic was, but I kept hearing "Pfizer this..." and "Pfizer's CEO blah blah blah..." and finally (here's the Dad part) it got the best of me; I blurted out, so, if you don't mind me asking, and I don't mean to pry because I wasn't really listening, but do you work for Pfizer? I used to, and was just curious."
Immediately, I felt bad, out of place, and irritated that I had spoken to two women about a portion of their conversation when I didn't want to talk to them anyway!!! Why couldn't I stop myself?? I really embarassed myself and Matt. But, they and I got through the brief, verbal diarrhea that was the short conversation I instigated and we all went on with our lunches.
The women immediately starting speaking much more softly and with their hands on the sides of their mouths, so we couldn't hear what they were saying and Matt and I were uncomfortable the entire rest of the lunch. How irritating. Frankly, even though I couldn't contain myself and my ADHD, it all started with the restaurant seating those two RIGHT NEXT TO OUR TABLE, when there were clearly two other tables to their right a little further from us.
You'd think that "reserved" tables also were first-come, first-served. Plus, these four tables squished into a little box on the back side of the restaurant would be set aside solely for walk-ins. Why not separate the people as much as possible until the whole section is filled? Which it wasn't the entire time we four were there. When we left, they were still not seating other people in that area. It put a damper, actually, on the whole evening, although I did enjoy the entire weekend.
Last night Matt and I were seated at a midtown restaurant (Esca: I mentioned in my post from yesterday), and within 5 minutes, two women were seated at the table next to us, which was about 6 inches from my right/Matt's left. We didn't acknowledge them and in fact from their interaction with the waiter, it seemed that they were kinda bitchy - not someone I'd wanna interact with.
Matt and I ordered our food, got our drinks, and started talking about Thanksgiving dinner, and other things. Well, the women next to us were talking about something. I couldn't care less what their topic was, but I kept hearing "Pfizer this..." and "Pfizer's CEO blah blah blah..." and finally (here's the Dad part) it got the best of me; I blurted out, so, if you don't mind me asking, and I don't mean to pry because I wasn't really listening, but do you work for Pfizer? I used to, and was just curious."
Immediately, I felt bad, out of place, and irritated that I had spoken to two women about a portion of their conversation when I didn't want to talk to them anyway!!! Why couldn't I stop myself?? I really embarassed myself and Matt. But, they and I got through the brief, verbal diarrhea that was the short conversation I instigated and we all went on with our lunches.
The women immediately starting speaking much more softly and with their hands on the sides of their mouths, so we couldn't hear what they were saying and Matt and I were uncomfortable the entire rest of the lunch. How irritating. Frankly, even though I couldn't contain myself and my ADHD, it all started with the restaurant seating those two RIGHT NEXT TO OUR TABLE, when there were clearly two other tables to their right a little further from us.
You'd think that "reserved" tables also were first-come, first-served. Plus, these four tables squished into a little box on the back side of the restaurant would be set aside solely for walk-ins. Why not separate the people as much as possible until the whole section is filled? Which it wasn't the entire time we four were there. When we left, they were still not seating other people in that area. It put a damper, actually, on the whole evening, although I did enjoy the entire weekend.
