Jay.....
Such aggressive proselytizing is rude at best, but not all that uncommon.
The fault, however, for allowing them to ruin your lunch is yours alone.
From your narrative, I'd guess you could have left that table having only
wasted five minutes.

There are many of us that were raised "hyper-catholic", to use your phrase,
but not many still carry such a large chip on their shoulder as you. You
really ought to learn to get by all that. It's pretty sad that you can
allow a couple of one-issue old guys to ruin a couple of days of your life.

JG

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

Yesterday was clear, in the 60s (in November in Iowa!),