Quiet!

My classmates are notorious "shushers". Whenever the background chatter gets too loud during a lecture, an evitably louder "SHHHH!" will emanate from some corner of the room. Mostly, this is annoying and not particularly helpful.. the background chatter merely fades momentarily while people try to isolate the source of the "Shhhh." Today a group of us were working independently on a seminar in the computer lab. The room was relatively quiet except for one student loudly talking to the person seated next to him. Sure enough, moments later he was loudly shushed from across the room. As he walked over to see who had shushed him, he discovered it was one of his friends (who was grinning) and then noted at full volume "So sorry to be disrupting your MSN-ing!" Needless to say, the class found this quite amusing.