Praying the Lord's prayer

I was having coffee with some friends from church when it was 12 o'clock.  We immediately thought:  "We can't pray the Lord's prayer here".  So we stopped talking and one of us just repeated the Lord's prayer very quietly.  Afterwards I thought;  " Why did we think we couldn't pray in the cafe?"  It isn't against the law, it wouldn't have disturbed anybody and it would have been a witness to the other people there.  I think maybe we all need to get out of the mindset that we can/should only pray out loud in church or in our own homes.  We read of Jesus praying in the open air and He probably did this many times.

Hazel