Dear Really Loud Tech Guy at a tea house: it’s not your personal office, and when you have both earphones in and are chatting away with your tech buddies in a voice that shows absolutely no respect for other customers trying to enjoy the nice QUIET atmosphere of WTH, you are being VERY rude. My mother and I enjoy the tea house before we go see a play at the Neptune, but always find it difficult to relax when your overly loud tech banter dominates the whole place. Be more respectful and do your tech stuff at home! —Tea Lover
This article appears in Apr 4-10, 2013.
Yeah I know sometimes it can be irritating but this is the ‘high’ cost of technology. You just gotta go with it!
It sure can , my friend. God made tea but Steve Job made it possible to to wach Michael & Kelly.
Go with it sister. BFFS 4 ever.
Should have told him to shut the fuck up or you’ll shove a teabag down his throat and pull it out of his ass by the string. This city hasn’t had a good tea house brawl in a long time.
Woggie- you’re talking to yourself again.
I would be my baser desire to make my way naturally close to the techie asshole and begin loudly engaging someone in the kind of conversation that would make George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Lewis Black shuffle nervously, loud enough that it could be heard over the phone by the asshole on the other end.
Either that or dress up in my best Soviet hipster chic, sit nearby and start writing furiously in a notebook while, occasionally, looking up and at the techie asshole as if straining to hear everything being said. Then perhaps, if I had real ovarian fortitude, I’d ask to use their phone as I need to call my “handler” and hint darkly at connections with Echelon without actually impersonating anyone.
no this is unfair. I despise loud table neighbours as much as anyone but… it’s a social venue. A tea house is a social venue. It’s not a library. So once in awhile you’re gonna get people who treat a social venue like a social venue.
The nice thing is if you don’t care much about others’ opinions of you, you can just sit as close to technotronic as possible and just fart repeatedly until he gets freaked out and moves. Then move and keep farting. You’ll fart him out the door. I promise.
Gotta learn the Vulcan Neck Pinch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…
Am I the only person on this planet who can just block people out.
OH. MY. GOD! You guys have me in STITCHES!!!!!!! Especially Eats_Crayons–was it YOU who played ‘The Spleen’ in Mystery Men?;)?;)?……..and Bro Tim that link was tres cool–one of my FAVORITE Trek scenes EVER (Star Trek IV was AWESOME!!!!!!!!), and super funny dub-job on the boombox ;D
Did you report it to the staff and/or owner?