I am wondering if this post is for real. To my understanding it is against halacha to speak at anytime during tefilla.
If one goes to shul to talk, where does he go to daven?
My mother, who B”H is of age was in shul sometimes before it opened. The mechitza was where the front rows was for the women and back for the men, where the shmusers were. My mother would always bang on the tables and say sh-sh. There was one man who especially was upset and said,”what does she want, she is almost smelling the grass”. Well my mother is B”H still with us here,but that man unfortunately has grandchildren carrying his name that were long bar mitzvahed.
To basket of radishes, you did what was right and continue doing so. Obviously that shul is not a real makom tefilla if you are not welcome there and take it as a blessing in disguise.
People talk and all of a sudden when a catastrophe hits they start banging their heads against the wall. We must speak to Hashem all the time and shul is a place meant for davening.