Moody Monday

Enough alliteration yet?

Anyway, I am not the one who was moody this morning. I was walking through a very busy hallway in the student centre, one of the busier parts of campus and saw someone I know from a group of older students that I meet with about once a week. We started talking about our experiences at university. We were having an interesting and enthusiastic conversation that was acceptable for the location There was a young woman sitting at the same large table. She had her books out in front of her and had her laptop running. She was studying, or at least she was trying to, as she made very clear to us after about twenty minutes. The first indication that we got that we were bothering her was when she swore at us and said that she had a mid term in two hours and that we were rude and inconsiderate people. Both of us apologized, and I added that she could have said something sooner. She agreed that she could have, but by then she was angry and she left. We could have gone somewhere else to talk if we had known how much we were bothering her. Maybe she was unwilling to say anything until she lost her cool. Both of us are old enough to be her parents. If she doesn't do well on her midterm, she might have a few more choice words for us. I'll probably avoid that corner for a while.