("First off, if you mention this, you've got to protect my real identity. Refer to me as 'Luther from Red Springs' or something, OK?")
Got it, "Luther."
"The woman at the coffee shop who was bothered by the other woman's nursing: Her problem is that she hasn't learned what almost every man knows instinctively: DON'T LOOK. Almost all men believe that a mother nursing a baby is one of nature's most pure and beautiful sights; it's an act of almost mystical beauty.
"The problem is, most men also deeply believe that if it's not your own wife and baby, and you're caught looking, people will assume not that you're an aesthete drawn by the beauty of this holy bond between mother and child, but that you're a dirty creep getting a free peek.
"So the irked coffee lady needs to do what most men do in such a situation: pretend not to notice, don't look over that way any more than you absolutely have to, and go about your business. It's really quite simple once you understand the social niceties at play here."
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