Monday, November 17, 2014

Dinner Conversation?

I took my daughter out for dinner, and two women at the table next to us were having an interesting conversation. While I am not one for eavesdropping on others, but they were loud enough that I had no other choice.

Their conversation was about breasts.

Yes, you read that right.

Now I am a fan of breasts (I would say big fan, but I like them in all sizes). One of the ladies had just recently had a mammogram -not sure which one- and they were talking about the possible outcomes of the test. This quickly spun off into other factoids about breasts and then conversations about breast size, sensitivity, nipple shape, getting larger during that certain time, bra comfort, you name it, they probably talked about it. The entire time I had to sit and appear as if I heard nothing. I could not even smirk and most definitely could not make eye contact or glance that way. Not sure if my daughter was listening or not, and if she did, she never gave any indication.

Now the women were probably in their mid 30s, nicely dressed, with a professional manner about them. I was impressed that they are aware of their health care needs and bodies. I guess I should be impressed that they are willing to openly talk about their bodies. Probably something as being a male, we should do, but do not.

Now I am not sure if this was the best dinner conversation to have in a public restaurant, and definitely not at the volume they were speaking. Also they should have been aware of those around them, especially a youth. May be the conversation was done for my benefit and I was just too clueless to know (I have always been a bit dense and slow around women). Should I have said something to them or made some indication that I could hear their conversation? Would they have been offended if I did say something? Would I have been embarrassed after saying something? It really was a Catch-22.


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