Lunchtime Conversation

Not a conversation of mine this time, but someone else's. I sat at a table by myself with a copy of the alternative weekly with a booth of four people on one side and a table with six people on the other side. The group of six behaved relatively normally but the group of four really started to freak me out. They were like professional conversationalists. Their dialogue almost sounded scripted. It was if they were in an episode of Seinfeld--or maybe a better description is that it sounded like they were doing a morning radio show. Each person interjected a comment at the appropriate moment, people would laugh too loudly if they had been silent for too long, and there was absolutely no dead air at all. I'm not sure how they managed to eat their lunch with all that talking. It was creepy. Annoying too--considering someone from BOTH tables would stop occasionally and start singing along (rather loudly) to the music being played, especially during "Piano Man." That's fine if we've been drinking, but it drove me nuts during lunch.