Do REALLY loud talkers at restaurants bother you?

Yes, loud talking in any place that can also be intimate will bother me...sometimes to distraction! Pretty and I stopped in a local restaurant, which was completely empty when we got there. We ordered our food and waited for it to arrive. Another couple arrived and sat at the table RIGHT behind us(me). They then proceeded to talk about a recent anal operation received by one of them, giving very descriptive highlights to the conversation. I was almost sick! When they then proceeded to discuss an ailment one of their pets was having, I turned around and ask if they could speak quietly to each other as we were inside, not outside on the farm! This seemed to incite them to try harder to make us sick! I called the waitress over, telling her to give our bill to the people at the other table! The waitress kept apologizing and told us the meal (which we couldn't and didn't eat) was on the house! I simply don't understand how some people can be so rude!

Loud talkers bother me A LOT and even more they bother my husband, who is not always very diplomatic.

Yes. My friend and I were having lunch at Nordstroms last week and 4 ladies were so loud we couldn't even talk. Really!! It was annoying and it did affect our experience.

Yes, that is annoying, but it does depend on what type of restaurant. A family style placed is more casual and usually very noisy....

I think a group of loud talkers would bother me if they were being unruly. If they were just having fun I don't think it would bother me

Yeah I get bothered

Loud talkers do bother me when I am out somewhere. It does not matter if its a restaurant, a doctors appointment or Walmart. I don't need to know everyone else's business. Same thing with cell phone conversations too. Some people talk so loud on their cells that you would think the person they are talking to is deaf.

It depends on many things. Usually people who speak loudly don´t bother me unless they are rowdy. But I cannot stand a restaurant where music is set too loud.

Just part of the scenery. lol. Pony...honestly, I am a foodie...so kinda too engrossed with my food. Secondly, I am not rich enough to go to posh set ups where being hush hush is silently mandatory. I can now afford to visit them once in a while, but do not feel the need to. I mean, I'd be terrified if the sound of me using forks and knives brought focus of others on to me. I am not good with them. You all grew up with them, we don't use them out here. I remember that Pretty Woman scene...the clam flying up and the waiter saying it happens all the time.....In general, I am essentially middle class person by local standards and comfortable with what I am now. Hey, there was a time I could only afford street food, so by those standards, I have done well, very well..lol.

i'm glad they didn't bother ya. when the grand was born this past july, the daughter 'n crew took the new family out to eat. heck, folks were so loud there we couldn't e'en hear each other! i'm purty certain that place t'weren't filled with such professionals. 'course i've a folk phobia...they always bother me.

I think people need to remember where they are, and other people have just as much right to enjoy themselves as they do. There is a strange form of crowd mentality in which people behave very differently when their number exceeds a certain point (around 5 or 6). They seem to forget that there is anyone in the world apart from their particular group and will often behave in ways that they would not dream of doing if there were fewer of them. I have noticed this when on country walks. If you meet a party of ramblers coming the other way at a stile or gateway, they will all insist on climbing over before you get a chance to proceed. If there are only a few of them, someone will invite you to cross before they have finished. The crowd becomes a unified whole rather than a collection of individuals.

Indian *and* Asian? I thought Indians were considered Asians. I find grading tests in a restaurant absurd. I never did that.

Maybe I am nosy but I actually enjoy overhearing a conversation, it is like getting access to someone's life and habits without even trying. So no, they don't bother me unless it was in a library but it is expected in a restaurant.

I don't think loud talkers really bother me. But what really bothers me in a restaurant is someone blowing their nose there in the dining area. That really annoys me. I have a weak stomach. There are ao many people that think little guys and babies are a big bother but that doesn't bother me either. I love the little ones, love watching them.

Sometimes. And then there's the crazy loud radio station. That's a pet peeve of mine.

I believe hard working people need to be able to relax after a hard day's work. I feel women need time to unwind as well. They both will hopefully feel better after dining out. Loud customers can affect how an evening will end when loud people do not know when to quit talking loud