Originally posted by: shortylickens
Originally posted by: her209
This is where you up the ante and start talking louder than them. About midget porn.
I somewhat agree.
If you dont have the balls to do
something about it, then you deserve to listen to them.
About a year ago when I was at a fairly classy restaurant I got seated next to some loadmouthed assholes who were complaining about their current employment in very obscene and vulgar terms.
Now I spent a little over 9 years in the Navy and find myself fairly difficult to offend, but I do have a strong sense of propriety. I didnt care much for their language in such a nice place. What made it worse was my mom was with me. She didnt seem to mind too much but the little old ladies at the next table were very upset with it.
Every time those fellows had another drink they got a little louder and fouler. When I went to the mens room I stopped by the hostess and informed her of the unpleasant patrons. She made it quite clear she didnt care and wouldnt do anything (poor attitude for such a classy and expensive place). I came back and my mom whispered to me that the fellows were doing much more than just complaining about their day at work, they were also discussing a lot of corporate info in public they shouldnt have been.
Mom is a Senior Paralegal at a big law firm back in DC. She said she had seen many people terminated and sued by their company for having the kind of loud conversations in public they were having. The men were seated right behind me for the entire evening and I was finally tired of them. In a very loud voice I asked my mom to tell me about some of the folks who had been destroyed by their employer. She told me quitely at first and I had to repeat myself a few times for her to take the hint. She then spoke (with volume) about a couple of guys who got drunk in a bar, talked too much, cost their company millions of dollars and ended up in jail for 90 days.
By a strange coincidence, the fellows behind me quieted down about that time.
Good lesson for life:
The definition of the word
tact is not "nice". Its "diplomatic".
I have never seen an irate drunk man calm down simply because he was told to. He has to arrive at that decision himself. Sometimes with a little persuasion.