[margaretmattson]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I find people having full conversations, loudly, while sitting directly behind or in front of me at a musical performance to be intolerable. I find it rude and disrespectful to the audience and the musicians. I get the occasional comment like "oh yeah check out that bass riff!" or "hey Stymie's here, let's call him over" or whatever. But complete, full, in-depth conversations - not acceptable. You can enjoy conversation at the dinner table, in the car, at each others' houses, at the bowling alley, at a wedding, at a driveway party - so many places you can have conversations.

It's even worse when they're in front of you and they push their chair back when they sit down to give themselves more room in front of them, making it difficult for you to leave and go somewhere else. Then you can triple the fun when one lights a cigarette.

And then you have to be "that woman" who asks her to a) put the cigarette out, b) push her chair back where she found it, and c) be aware of the fact that you're at a musical performance and you can either dance or listen, you can talk between songs, or when they go on break. I don't want to hear about your cousin Murray's gall bladder operation.

You forgot to mention the chair hogs and stealers. Pillows and blankets on nine chairs for an hour with owners nowhere in sight. Get up from your seat for one brief moment, your chair has disappeared. Ask others around if they saw where it went, no one saw anything.