10-21-2014, 11:07 PM
Thanks, abu nuwas.
I have been in restaurants like that, but never in such circumstances. One imagines that if the couple were happy, the food would seem good, and they would not notice the waitress or the stained wall. But I imagine it to be rather like one of Strindberg's plays, where the couple do not talk, because they said everything they had to say long ago.
That's well put and what I tried to convey.
Do we only wince at the singular and unexpected? I'm not sure. We wince at old jokes, for example, or bad sitcoms, that's the kind of wince I had in mind.
I have been in restaurants like that, but never in such circumstances. One imagines that if the couple were happy, the food would seem good, and they would not notice the waitress or the stained wall. But I imagine it to be rather like one of Strindberg's plays, where the couple do not talk, because they said everything they had to say long ago.
That's well put and what I tried to convey.
Do we only wince at the singular and unexpected? I'm not sure. We wince at old jokes, for example, or bad sitcoms, that's the kind of wince I had in mind.
Before criticising a person try walking a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticise that person, you are a mile away.... and you have their shoes.