Would this make you MAD at a Restaurant?
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
United States
December 13, 2008 11:56pm CST
ok me and hubby got a gift card to a place and decided to go eat there and midway through our meal i hear this EERIE singing noise.. i look behind me and there is a huge table of like 8 people that have started some weird sing/chant at their dinner table.. now this place is PACKED and yet these people after their meals start singing some weird xmas carols (well thats what hubby said it was.. it sounded like ghouls raising from crypts in horror movies to me.. you know the wooooeeeeeooooohhhooo creepy tunes they play?!?!) and im like you have got to be kidding me??
is it me or is this rude? i mean if no one else could hear them then great but they were disturbing several tables that were trying to eat and talk back and forth to each other.. is this like some weird tradition i dont know of?!?! to sing after you eat or something?? they carried on for awhile but i think the waitress finally told them to stop because they got up and left right after she saw them and she seemed like she was apologizing for whatever she told them but for like 5 minutes all we heard was them and the restaurant PLAYS music already that is like frank sinatra so they were singing OVER it in whatever the heck they singing in a choir type group and they were all adults so its not like they were teens or kids goofing off.. i dont get it!! but i was glad when it was over since i was already fighting a migraine as is!!
have you ever ate some where and a group of people feel the need to break out into a musical fit after a meal?!?! lol
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@nixxi76 (3191)
• Canada
14 Dec 08
I can't say that I've been around strange people who did that but I can tell you that people singing happy birthday irritates me especually when the waiters and waitresses do it.. I don't know why but this bothers me.
One evening my hubby, son and I went to a buffet restaurant when we sat down to wait for the waitress to give us the go ahead and get our food. I let my hubby and son go first and we happened to be sitting by these two men that I swear the one of them was talking loud enough on purpose so I could hear him. He was going on about the internet. He went to this one website and told his friend that you could hear some kind of nursery school music with flowered wallpaper and if you wait there for a bit the whole screen will change to this 8 or 9 yr old little girl. I don't want to tell you what else he was saying because it's very graphic. It was so sick what these old men were doing to this little girl. I could hear him quite clearly.
When my hubby came back I told him and he told the guy to stop it. My son was sitting there and when they returned from getting their food this man was still talking about it. I totally lost my appetite!
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Dec 08
ugh!! i know i hate the happy bday singing too!! i have been out to eat before and 3 different tables had the whole crew singing to them and im like oh god im in hell
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
14 Dec 08
My oldest daughter did that to me once. While I appreciated the gesture, I asked her to never do it again.
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@schulzie (4061)
• United States
16 Dec 08
I don't know, that really is strange. I wonder if maybe they were practicing for a play or production or something. But if they were you would think that they would be doing that at someone's house and not at a restaurant.
I feel that that is very rude to do that in a restaurant and be loud over the music that is playing and be so loud that you are actually invading the next table's or several next table's sound space, you know the area around you that you can hear?
I am glad that they finally got up and left and you were able to enjoy the rest of your meal in peace. That is just plain nuts for them to do that!
Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!
I feel that that is very rude to do that in a restaurant and be loud over the music that is playing and be so loud that you are actually invading the next table's or several next table's sound space, you know the area around you that you can hear?
I am glad that they finally got up and left and you were able to enjoy the rest of your meal in peace. That is just plain nuts for them to do that!
Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
17 Dec 08
i know that way i didnt have to do anything and come off as a jerk lol
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Dec 08
ah heck no!! if i was the owner i would have made them take it out of the place!
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@kunking (1118)
• China
16 Dec 08
hi, i think i would get mad if this case happened to me...definetely they are behaving rudely because they had disturbed other a lot..if i were there , i would tell he waitress or waiter to solve this problem or i will walk directly to ask them to lower their voice..if that wouldn't work, i'd rather leave there than bearing the suffering noise..
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Dec 08
well i didnt want to leave because we had just waited an hour to get seated and then i was craving only there food so i didnt wanna leave and wait an hour trying to get into some where else with food i didnt want
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@PrincessKitten (790)
• United States
16 Dec 08
moonlitmagikchild,
They probably thought they were spreading Holiday Cheer and were brightening-up the resteraunt that night.
My choir at church tends to break-into song when they're in a large group of people...I know this because I'm in the choir and we sometimes go places together. They think they're doing a good thing to make people happy. As for me, I've distanced myself from the choir, EXPECIALLY now that it's the Holidays. I'll start back up with them next year.
Happy MyLotting! 
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Dec 08
hubby said it was holiday music but to me it sounded like weird screeching and chanting so im not quite convinced it was xmas music lol..
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@wilmonarch (484)
• India
17 Dec 08
really i will get irritated you can enjoy singing song but you cant disturb others at the same time especially in public places i never faced such kind of situation
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
17 Dec 08
i know especially since every one is paying good money to be there and eat..
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@rusty2rusty (6763)
• Defiance, Ohio
15 Dec 08
yes, I have eaten some where before where a group of people has broekn into singing or gotten really loud after a meal. If it is disturbing I will mention it to the waitress. As I have paid for a meal to eat. Not to listen to someone who think sthey can sing but really can't.
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hahaha, you noticed that to?@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Dec 08
funny how the only people that are rude enough to disturb every one with their singing are always the ones that CANT sing lol
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
17 Dec 08
In a public place I think that would be quite eerie. I would have said something to the manager of the restaurant, letting them know that this was disturbing to me, and to the other diners. I am glad I wasn't there.
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@CinderInMySoul (4717)
• United States
14 Dec 08
being that im a very easily annoyed person..yes that would definitely bother me! i find it annoying enough when the wait staff break out in the birthday song for somebody! much less a group of diners trying to "out loud" the music and surrounding diners conversations!
another great reason why i dont eat out at a restaurant very often! too many ppl sitting far to close to me for comfort and they are annoying and loud talkers and THEY JUST MIGHT BREAK OUT IN SONG!
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Dec 08
i love eating out and usually you only have to worry about everyone talking at once and being loud but my god bad creepy singing too?!?!
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@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
16 Jan 09
I have never head such a thing in a restaurant I am glad the waitress asked them to quiet down or leave, sometimes I get loud and do not realize how loud I get but I will tell you I do not sing in restaurants. I will tell you I have never been asked to leave a restaurant to quiet down. My problem is when I go out with friends we tend to get loud laughing at times.
I had to sit and listen to a guy on a cell phone talking to someone one time why he could not do something for them because he had his DUI class and the next day he had his anger management class that the judge made him go to. Do we need to all hear what you are talking about on the cell phone.
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@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
18 Jan 09
Talking on the phone, singing, laughing and other loudness can all be considered rude to some if they wanted to go and have a quiet meal. A few days after 911 my friends and I went out to dinner. Yes it was so horrible for the USA and the whole world. Being we were the only table in the whole place laughing. WE had days of sorrow and fear we needed to laugh. We laughed of other life things nothing about the attack on the us. I will tell you we got lots of bad looks that night. As we where leaving I walked by a table with a doctor and his wife there. I spoke to them. I said "I was at the loud table". She said "I knew I like some one at the table" She said we all need a little laughter now in our time time of such sorrow.
We all need laughter in our life.
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Jan 09
jeeze i wouldnt be announcing my schedule if it was like his!! yeah laughing and talking i can understand and tolerate unless its just insanely too loud.. but singing?!?! jeeze
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
15 Dec 08
i can't say that i have ever experienced that, but it would bug me too. and if someone hadn't i think i would have complained. i have been out when they all sang happy birthday to a member of their party, but that doesn't last long and i don't have a problem with that.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Dec 08
yeah the happy bdays are more annoying in thee "omg i feel sorry for those people" than something like i had lol.. i hate it when people in my party tell them to sing to me!!
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Dec 08
yeah even if the music fits some times it just grinds on your nerves none the less
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@shihtzumama (290)
• United States
15 Dec 08
That would irritate the hell out of me. People are so rude now days and don't care about their actions. When I go out to dinner and am spending the money and the time out with my loved ones or friends I am not disrespectful to others around me. I don't think that there are very many people anymore who are respectful of others.
Shihtzumama
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Dec 08
i know its scary how inconsiderate people are now and it just keeps getting worse 
@shihtzumama (290)
• United States
16 Dec 08
Yes it is getting worse all the time....People don't raise their kids the same way anymore. They don't teach them right from wrong and now days people are just rude.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
15 Dec 08
|I think with me it would largely depend upon my mood, if I was in a really good mood it probably wouldn't bother me, unless it went on too long, and if I was in a not so good mood it would bother me from the get go.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Dec 08
yeah it was horrible timing since i had just taken head ache pills because i had a headache in the hour i had waited for the table so them breaking out into song just pounded my head along with irritating me
@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
14 Dec 08
I think whatever the group was doing was not in good taste, they had no business to just enjoy themselves so loudly and disturb others. It is ill-mannerism, as per my thinking. People should be more considerate and behave sensibly, while eating out at public places.
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
15 Dec 08
I appreciate your concern for others.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Dec 08
i dont see how people justify their rudeness!! i would die of embarrassment if i was so loud i was disturbing people!
@alindahaw (1219)
• Philippines
15 Dec 08
Yes, I would definitely find that very annoying. Adults should behave appropriately when they are in public places. We are all entitled to a little privacy even if we are in plublic places like restaurants. If these people wish to sing and chant, they can always do it somewhere else.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Dec 08
yeah you would think people would mature but apparently that whole group didnt
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
21 Dec 08
i guess i should have written it different because i meant "mad while at the restaurant at the people"
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
14 Dec 08
I'm sorry, but it sounds like you are complaining because of bad singing. It's Christmas time, they were singing Christmas Carols, they were joyous and the waitress ruined it because people were probably complaining. Sure they shouldn't be loud about their singing, but that doesn't mean that they didn't have the right to. There wasn't a sign that said no singing, was there?
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
14 Dec 08
I think her point was that they were loud enough to where the other patrons couldn't carry on conversation at their own table. While they may have the right to sing if they want, they don't have the right to disturb others.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
15 Dec 08
that and they already have music that plays in the resteraunt so singing loudly over music like frank sinatra isnt gonna sound good it just sounds garbled
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
16 Jan 09
I never had to deal with anything like that...well except maybe at a bar where people were singing along with he music(usually not pleasant). Anything that would've lasted longer than "happy birthday" would have bothered me. However I have to say, the whole "happy birthday" thing doesn't bother me, EXCEPT, and let me emphasize, it would bother me if I were the recipient of said song.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Jan 09
its funny i dont think anyone likes the people singing happy birthday to them!! except for when they get free cake or something
