Out in public...

Its funny the things you see and the realizations you make when you're home away from home is a public place.



As I was sitting at Starbucks with a friend today, our attention was drawn to the road where we were sure we would find a car full of screeching teenagers. Much to our surprise the commotion was caused by an adult male who was shrieking rather unintelligible words and flailing his arms about. He was 10 or 15 cars back from a red light and causing quite a scene. At this point a woman, I'm assuming was his wife and three children proceeded to exit the vehicle and walk away from him. This seemed to further infuriate the driver who then began pounding his fists on the steering wheel and flinging his body back into his seat. The shrieking at this point sounded much like a female victim in a particularly loud slasher flick. Once his family(?) was out of the car he attempted to pull over almost hitting or of the children. Seeing that this wouldn't get him clear of the road he very quickly pulled into the parking lot adjacent to where we were sitting. Getting out of the car he began his tirade again as he started walking next to the woman. The woman was very calm during this whole time even pausing to light a cigarette as this lunatic was demanding she get back in the car. We lost sight of them for a bit and 5 minutes later they returned to car and drove off.



Needless to say this was fairly entertaining until I realized that woman and childrens calm demeanor was probably due to the fact that this wasn't the first time they'd seen this type behavior.



The other observation I made at Starbucks today is that when deaf people drop change they don't realize it. Nor do they notice their dog's incessant whining.



The things you learn at Starbucks...





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