Parents often discipline their children, forgetting they aren't on the playground, for yelling or talking loudly in a shop or restaurant. Whoever came up with the concept of "inside voices" should be commended, as should the parents who abide by it.
But who monitors adults? In the time it took me to scarf down a Cobb salad I learned way more about the love life of the stranger sitting two tables over than I really needed to. This guy was broadcasting his embarrassing intimacies with such volume I'm sure they heard him in the kitchen. A voice that loud takes all the fun out of eavesdropping.
These are the same people who sit behind you at the movies and, since whispering is foreign to them, give away the plot. They cause the librarian to utter the rarely heard "ssshhhh" and the clergy to do a holy eye roll during a service.
You know how it's a requirement to have smoke detectors just about everywhere. I suggest someone invent a voice detector. The alarm would go off when an "inside voice" turned into an "outside voice".
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