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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa S. Chabot)
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Subject: Re: RE: RE: DAMADD call for new members
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Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 13:47:26 EDT
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WHO CARES about "loud mouthed little rug rats"!

Here's even more offensive people to be seated near at a restaurant:

		Emergency Unit Physicians
		Criminal Lawyers
		Programmers

When I go out to eat, I *never* want to hear clinical discussions about
rape cases, or the internals of somebody-else's-favorite-operating-system.  
{Especially not while delivered in carrying voices and with smiles of
interest.}  Such gory topics spoil the appetite! 

By comparison, other people's children (which in my case, comprise the set
of all children), as long as they don't decorate me with their food or
such, don't bother me that much.  Not all children are loud and offensive!
{and for that matter, neither are all EU doctors, lawyers, or hackers}
And frankly, I find the presence of children to be an indicator of merit
in the restaurant:  I've dined in many joints in CentralSquare/HarvardSquare 
customed only by students, and I've decided I feel a lot safer in, say, the
Chinese restaurants where parents bring their toddlers. 

And then there's those other people it's embarrassing to be seated at the same
table with: 

		DND players

It can be pretty weird to have everybody in the restaurant staring at your
table because they've just overheard bits of the excited conversation:  
"...we killed about 8 of them...well, we had her axe...cut the big one
_right_in_half!..." They might not be staring quite so strangely if they'd
heard the beginning of the conversation and thereby knew that this was a
description of accidentally bursting into a roomful of orcs...then again... :-)

"Smile when you say that, stranger"
L S Chabot

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