your shout

Had dinner with some old friends tonight at the Thai Garden cafe in Glen Waverley. The food was good, but the place was... umm... compact.

As it was also fully-booked, it became very noisy at times, with people at a couple of larger tables yelling and raising their voices. You could sense some other people becoming a bit agitated by the noise. Then, the guy sitting at the next table to us raised the stakes by literally shouting at other people at his table... making it even more difficult for the rest of us to hear each other speak over him.

That competitive spirit seems to show up in the most unlikely of places! At the next Olympics, I reckon Australia could field strong teams in both the 'out-shouting' and 'queue-jumping' competitions!