Living lives of Quiet Desperation

Acting on some unknown inspiration, decided to have dinner at the local Chinees Restaurant which advertises “Dinner and dancing every Saturday Night.” We entered the place around 8:30 to a huge crowd. Luckily, there was a table available, and was seated directly in the middle of a very loud throng of diners’. In fact the conversations around us were so loud that we had to yell just to be heard across a small table.
The cuisine is delicious starting with Won Ton Soup followed by Prawn Dumplings ending with a superb serving of Mongolian Lamb on a bed of fresh and steaming white rice. Washing the meal down with a full bodied Cab Sav made the entire eating experience truly memorable.
The couple next to us aged early sixties sat across from each other without uttering a word the entire night. Eating in silence, they would occasionally make eye-contact, taking another bite of their meal. My guess was they were an old married couple having eaten thousands of meals together in agreed silence.
“We’ve been married over 45 Years and have discovered we have nothing else to say to one another.”
Unfortunately I believe they’re many couples out there in the same situation.
When the evenings entertainment (a one man guitar player with pre-recorded songs, all songs circa 50’s, 60’s, 70’s) the silent couple would rise from their table and hit the dance floor: all the time not uttering a word as if their favourite dancing songs were already known between them thus no need to ask for a dance.
I hope that life in old age as a married couple never reaches a time where communication is shunned or becomes unnecessary.
Now the famous line that ‘people live lives of Quiet Desperation’ can be observed in your very own local Chinees Restaurant.