After a twelve and a half hour long day at work, Michael and I went to dinner at a favorite Thai place. I was a bit cranky and tired, just wanting to enjoy a nice quiet dinner with my sweetie and relax.

Instead, there is a foursome at the table across from us who are clearly drunk and who have no concept of how loud they are being. Just their conversation drowned out my ability to talk with Michael, and when they laughed (which was often), there was no hope of hearing anything else or of being heard myself. To top it off, the girl in the group had the loudest screeching laugh I have ever heard in real life. It was like something from a bad sitcom. I couldn't help but shoot them the occasional nasty and/or incredulous look, but they never noticed.

Finally, we can take it no more and we head to the counter to get our check and leave. The foursome leaves their table shortly thereafter.

As we approached our car, we noticed them getting into theirs. One of them apologizes for being so loud. What can we say? "That's ok" doesn't seem right, when their obnoxiousness seriously cut down on our enjoyment of our dinner. "Fuck off," while tempting, would be a little harsh. I couldn't really think of anything to say and just shook my head and looked away, while Michael mumbled something about a long day at work and wanting to have a nice quiet dinner.

Generally I'm pretty good at not letting dumb stuff like that bug me, but every so often my fuse gets kind of short and stuff like that is really annoying.

So what do you do when something like that happens?