Sunday, March 2, 2025

RESTAURANT OBSERVATIONS

 




My wife and I occasionally eat at restaurants.  While waiting for our meal I often observe the other diners, and there is a pattern I have observed.




 

At every table with four or more diners, especially diners forty years or older, there will be a person holding court, and dominating every conversation.





 

For every table of six or more the self-appointed master-of-ceremony will talk louder than anyone else – controlling the conversation and allowing no dead airtime to exist.   If drinking is involved, at that table there will be a person who brays like a donkey, booming laughter at something that's probably not that funny.





People under thirty do not fall into this loquacious category, as they sit at their table with their cellphones, probably texting each other rather than talking.




 

And then there is the family with young undisciplined children…


Your bill will total over one hundred dollars
and you are sitting next to this!


Bon Appetit

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

 

 


2 comments:

  1. The generational divides are real! And none of these characteristics are desirable, LOL.

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  2. You missed the Karen or Chad who's inhaling their food like they've been trapped with the Donner Party for months but is still going to throw a hissy fit when handed the check and will demand they be comped because the food was bad or the server didn't refill their water fast enough.

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