conversation

Last week my wife and I were sitting at Red Robin enjoying a nice dinner until the woman in the next booth began talking on her cell phone. It wasn't the fact she was on her phone that was irritating, it was how loud she was talking that was so irritating. I was trying to think of a way to shut her down without being rude, but I couldn't think of a diplomatic way to handle it.

Imagine being able to go back in time and have a conversation with yourself. Brad Paisley recorded a song about that very subject called "Letter To Me.” Morgan Freeman referred to it in the "Shawshank Redemption" - during his final parole hearing when he says that he wants to talk with that stupid kid and talk some sense into him...