Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Can you please, please just be quiet? No one wants to hear your blather

When did it become impossible to find a little quiet?
Nowadays, it seems like you simply cannot go anywhere without being forced to listen to strangers blathering on about nothing.
Recently, I was in the hot tub at my LA Fitness gym after working out, and an older guy got in beside me wearing bathing trunks and a WWII vet baseball cap. We won’t even get into the issue of why he was wearing a baseball cap at an indoor pool – that’s an entirely different sartorial discussion &nda