Julia Altshuler wrote:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>> We were lucky for a while to have a local steakhouse which had an
>> "adult only" room. It was a large room and smoking was permitted in
>> 1/3 of it. Their ventilation and filtering system isolated the
>> smoking area quite well. It was heaven! Their "family" room was all
>> non-smoking. Guess they figured that parents shouldn't smoke in front
>> of the children. :-)
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> In my dreamworld, restaurants would have baby rooms, smoking rooms,
> cellphone rooms, loud music rooms, baby but no smoking rooms, smoking
> but no cellphone rooms, cellphones but no music rooms and every possible
> permutation so you could go in and demand a dining area that didn't
> allow smoking or babies but did allow pontification and wordplay. Others
> could ask for a place where they could bring their pet wombat.
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> --Lia
>
Frankly, cellphones bother me more than crying babies. We were at one
restaurant that was quite nice with a great view of the water and
evening sunset. The food was very good and the service excellent. I
felt sorry for the lady at the next table. The gentleman she was with,
talked almost non-stop on his cell phone. He even talked on it while
eating! He had a voice that you could help hearing, not quite yelling
but certainly not quiet. We felt like we knew him forever after
listening to his many personal conversations. IMO, this was very rude
especially to his companion. He gave the underlying message she wasn't
worth his attention.