[syriacus]

overhear snatches of someone else's conversation,

"Overhearing snatches" is not the same as "eavesdropping" unless the listener is on the other side of a door or bugging a conversation.

I'm curious-----Does David Porter want Eunice to

• plug her ears

  or

• get one of those old-timey ear-horns?

[Frapster]

get one of those old-timey ear-horns?

They sell those nifty little sound bubble thingy's at the toy store these days. Every restaraunt should have one.