Tonight I was out having dinner with my husband and during a lull in our conversation I couldn't help overhearing an exchange at the next table that got my loos boiling.
They were an older woman, a younger man, a younger woman and a little girl (I'm guessing).. I think they were a brother and sister out with their mother the daughter of the sister. The young woman and her daughter seemed lovely as was the older woman but the brother was being an arse.
At one point the older woman had gotten up to take the little girl to the loo. At that point the brother started insulting the woman who was saying she wanted to go back to studying, and that's the part of their conversation I overheard. She was saying "I just want to use my brain again after 15 years" and he said "you won't be able to do it, you can't just o back to studying again after so long as your brain won't be able to cope" or something like that.
I wanted to turn around and tell her not to listen to him and to encourage her she could do it if she put her mind to it. I didn't say anything of course and just fumed silently. So of the woman in the Indian restaurant in the northwest tonight is reading this, don't listen to that jerk! You CAN do it and you'll be so glad you did!
FWIW I've never ever butted into a strangers conversation in my life but occasionally it's very tempting this was one of those occasions. Was being unreasonable not to say something at the time? Have you ever interrupted to defend someone and if so how did it go?