On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:07:26 GMT, Dog3
> wrote:

>
> Unless the neighboring table is extremely intrusive, I rarely notice them.

You must be partially deff in that case. I can hear
conversations from tables FAR away, Of course, that isn't
in a restaurant with a "bomb" rating for noise. For
those... it seems I can hear the next table just fine, but I
can't follow what's being said at my table.

> I'm much more interested in the food and the companionship of the people at
> the table I am sitting at.

Good for you.

> I tend to tune out the background noise except
> for pagers and cell phones.

That's a problem of the past where I live.

> I think all electronic devices (the exception
> being lifesaving electronics) should be confiscated at the door of all
> restaurants. I witnessed a woman on a cell phone pacing up and down the
> aisle at a very nice restaurant one evening. I noticed her because she
> knocked the candle over on my table with an armswing as she was shouting at
> her assistant. Management hauled her out, cell phone stuck in her ear.
> I've heard she's banned for life.
>
Again, that sort of thing is totally passe around here.