Loud Talker

Megan Benoit Ratcliff
4 min readMay 22, 2023
Photo by Sander Sammy on Unsplash

People, right? Like, figure it out. It doesn’t take a genius to know what to do.

What are the social mores around talking on one’s phone in public spaces?

A recent experience in a nail salon is why I ask.

For context, I am not a salon person. This was my first ever manicure, at the request of my 11-year-old daughter whose appreciation for the finer things in life is blossoming like ragweed…

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Megan Benoit Ratcliff

Pediatric psychologist, writer of random things, squirrel watcher. Every day affords us an opportunity to be the best—or worst—versions of who we want to be.