Tacky

Posted on February 6, 2004 in Encounters Ettiquette

Hof’s Hut sent me its annual birthday card which I could redeem for an entree and a piece of carrot cake (provided I brought a second person who also ate.) The hostess sat us next to a young couple — a dirt-chinned techno-jock and a young woman. In the middle of their conversation, his cell phone rang.

“Oh, hi there!” The trench-coated computer bourgeois stood up without saying a word to his date and walked out onto the patio of the Irvine restaurant. He stayed out there several minutes.

I don’t know what else to say. Couldn’t he have turned his cell phone off? Was the call so important that he had to leave his date hanging?

Poor young woman. She needs assertiveness training. If this young woman happens to be reading this, my words to her are two: Dump him.

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This better not have been you, Michael Doss….