They’re walking right up to you unannounced, addressing you by name, and demanding that you not type so loud. In fact, they’re passing on complaints from other people who, apparently unlike the women in typography, do not have the balls to complain to your face. (Except one of the husbands, it would later turn out.)
I’ve only been to ATypI twice and I’m not going back in the foreseeable future. You want people to know your conference even existed? Then let the journalist take his notes. No Joe typing, no record of conference.
Don’t pull that shit again.