I went to see a local performer at a coffeehouse about a year ago. Unfortunately, since the coffeehouse has some customers that are NOT there for the music, they sometimes talk more than the rest of us would like. The owner tries to keep the "coffee" customers on the other side of the place from the music, but this particular night a table of four college students was sitting closer to the music than they needed to (in our opinion, anyway).

The performer did an instrumental piece, with all subtlety drowned out by the conversation at the one table. When he finished, he said "I wrote that one as an instrumental, but the people at that table just put words to it."

Most of us laughed; unfortunately, since the students weren't listening to him in the first place, they never got it.

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