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The Sound of Silence, Part 2

You really didn’t think that rant could be confined to a single post, did you?  I offer one more observation where public air space is concerned. During our spring break vacation, there was a family in our condo who could be identified by the volume of the kids’ voices; you didn’t even have to see them to know who was coming around the corner.  At the pool, there was no-holds-barred, top-of-lungs ...

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The Sound of Silence, Part 1

The other day, I was in a medical office waiting room.  On my left was a woman older than me with a cell phone featuring an old-fashioned ring (you know the one: DING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING…) Apparently, the woman has many more friends than I do, because her phone rang loudly and incessantly, and she answered each one in a normal, conversational tone.  I was trying to read a book on the history ...

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