Biting the Hand that Feeds You?

Let’s say you are in a restaurant with, before you on your table, the food you have bought. There is the tacit assumption that the food is yours and that you are allowed to sit there and eat it in peace, yet most restaurants are mills now and the staff is constantly interrupting your conversation and asking you how everything is and so it is hard to relax, but you try to slow yourself down and you try to eat deliberately and now you have taken some time and there is still food on your plate and you are conversing in earnest and out of your peripheral vision, without a word, comes a hand reaching for your plate and the impulse to stab that hand with your fork is very, very strong.