Reply To: What would you have done in this situation.

When YOUR desire to demonstrate your kavanah interferes with my actual kavanah, I don’t really care WHAT your excuse is. This guy came in late. Fine. That can happen for valid reasons. BUT – He had no right no matter what, to interfere with other people’s davening, just so he could feel good about his own. And that goes for someone coming in with noisy children who cannot sit still, or someone who talks in shul, too. Better for such a person to daven b’yechidus, rather than be so thoughtless and inconsiderate.