Noise level in a restaurant

[Andtototoo]

That's an unfortunate situation in the restaurant. And the lady's voice but the sound of it was inappropriately loud.


But I have to say that in this situation the boss sounds even more inappropriate! If that's truly what he said it's completely demeaning and rude and all around inappropriate. Depending on the situation the boss could have very well lost his job for chastising her behavior like that in front of everybody especially if he got in her face.

I really don't think the boss was more inappropriate. In any case, he made her stop ruining the time for everyone in the entire restaurant, so he gets a from me.

 

[7165red]

It has happened to me many times and I hate it. I also hate when someone next to me pulls out their phone and talks so loud you can hear everything they are saying. I have never said anything because I afraid the person might be a nut and God knows what will happen.

 

[Hrhpd]

We'd actually waited for about 45 minutes for the table, and a lot of the wait was because they were busy and took a while to clear the tables. There was basically no other available seating because the place was so crowded. Another issue was that these two tables were joined when we were seated and then split for our two parties. When they were separated, it was only by a few inches because there was no more room to move the outside table.

I also wasn't in a good mood. On the way in I was crossing the street and a driver wouldn't stop when I was in the crosswalk (carrying a flashlight too, so there was no way I shouldn't have been seen). I didn't particularly want to be at this place, but it was my wife's choice even with the wait. I noted when this other group arrived, and it was a good 20 minutes after we did, yet they were seated seconds after we were and a waiter took their order first although the same waiter took our order before bringing the orders to the kitchen. On top of that, they got their food 5 minutes before we did. It just seemed like all these little insults were just piling up when I would have rather been somewhere else.

It sounds like maybe you were irritated at everything else and focused on the guy with the loud voice.

Would he have been as irritating if you were at someplace you wanted to be, the waiters treated you fairly and a car had recognized you were in the crosswalk?

Sometimes things can be way more irritating than they normally would be when we are stressed.

I would have just turned my back, tuned them out and focused on my spouse and having a good time. Having a good time is 95% attitude.

 

[bcla]

It sounds like maybe you were irritated at everything else and focused on the guy with the loud voice.

Would he have been as irritating if you were at someplace you wanted to be, the waiters treated you fairly and a car had recognized you were in the crosswalk?

Sometimes things can be way more irritating than they normally would be when we are stressed.

I would have just turned my back, tuned them out and focused on my spouse and having a good time. Having a good time is 95% attitude.

The guy was still yelling in my ear. He was about 3 feet away from me, on my one o'clock position. I'd say the sound level whenever he raised his voice was adequate to yell at a neighbor across the street. If I turned by back, that would have meant turning my back to my family, and even then he would have been screaming into my ear.

Before I said anything to this guy, I said to my wife that I'd like to leave and get takeout somewhere else.