Mean old guy
We went to Zippy’s yesterday for breakfast, mostly because I really, really wanted to go (I wanted pancakes! So sue me!) and I kept badgering Toby until he took me.
While there, some old guy sitting across the room from me kept glaring at me.
Did he think I was immature? (I was coloring on the baby’s menu when I first noticed him.) Did he think I was a bad mother? (Toby had taken the baby off somewhere because he was screaming his head off.) Was he disgusted by my attire? (Ratty old t-shirt and jeans… mmm…) Did he think I was yet another annoying tourist destroying the island? Was he racist? Do I eat funny or something?
…Was he staring at someone directly behind me? (Although there was a big partition behind me…) Did he have a lazy eye that made it only LOOK like he was glaring at me when in fact he was glaring at the person sitting across from him?
It made me self-conscious. Old guys are scary….
about 2 years ago
I’m betting it was cause Tommy was screaming his head off. Some people seem to get really irked about a kid disturbing their otherwise tranquil moment in a noisy public restaurant. I had a guy at Assaggio’s once yell really loudly and said something like, “That’s just great!”, when our friends kid was crying because she was hungry but the parents couldn’t give her food quickly enough cause the water was too hot. Honestly I felt like decking the guy, still do. Don’t let the grumpy old men bother you.