I
eat breakfast out a few times a week. Perhaps I’m being unreasonable, or asking
too much, but I like to relax while I’m eating.
This
is what I look for when choosing a restaurant or café: a clean place with good
food, good service, and fair prices. What I do NOT want to see are inciting TV
newscasts or programs featuring a couple of shrieking individuals who are (verbally)
slugging it out during a rabid political debate with each other.
Fortunately,
with a TV it’s always possible to ask the-powers-that-be to switch channels.
Unfortunately,
one place I sometimes go to features an “armchair political analyst," a
regular customer who thinks he knows everything about everything. He sits at
the counter and insists upon letting everyone in the place know everything, too.
I have tried tuning him out by sitting far away from him, but it hasn’t worked.
Yes, he’s that loud. For the last
several weeks, I’ve been able to avoid him by going to breakfast later in the
morning.
Is it too much to want to
spend 45 minutes eating breakfast in peace without being reminded that the
whole world seems to be falling apart?
