So, as those of you who know me well know that I went to see Ray LaMontagne for the second time this year in the Edindburgh Playhouse on friday night. The seats weren’t the best and because I’m so audio-orientated, I would shut my eyes in order to tune into his voice to hear the intonnation…..a short way through the gig, all I could hear was a girl talking behind me in a reasonibly loud tone for the situation we were sitting in…..a very quiet gig. When I turned around, she was blatently chatting to someone on her mobile phone and my blood began to boil. I gave her a minute but between her laughter and the volume increase in her voice, I turned around and said, “Excuse me, I didn’t pay £22.50 to listen to you talk on your mobile phone….please put it off”….she continued to talk, and put her finger up towards me as if to pause me for a moment while she finished her conversation……I then said, “NOW PLEASE!” and she came off the phone. My mate whom I went with was mortified at my confronting her, but I explained that people cannot think that talking on a phone during a gig is socially acceptable!!!! I actually couldn’t belive the audacity of her to do it in the first place. Is it just me????
My second incident was in the cinema this week, when a guy and his chick sat down beside me and my mate….right beside…..practically on my knee beside!! and just…..JUST…as the opening credits began to roll opened his bag of revels really loudly and munched away on them intermittently talking to his wifey….by 20 minutes into the film I was ready for a breakdown and turned to him (very politely mind!) and said, “It would be really helpful if you would stop talking for a while…..please?!?” I think he could have been drunk, cause it took him a while and then he turned, put his hand on my arm and said, “I’m really sorry…..honest….really sorry” and I was like, I’M TRYING TO WATCH THE MOVIEEEEE!!!! in my head……
Seriously…..I am not having a good time with rude people at the moment….but again, is it just me?? Or have social standards and manners just declined sharply? I would not dream of pulling out my mobile in a quiet acoustic gig and talking on it as though i were in the busy high street……nor would I pull out the loudest packets of sweets I could find, eat them, while talking to the person next to me as though I hadn’t seen them in at least ten years…..I’m not saying I’m perfect….but I know how to act appropriately in social situations so to not piss off the people around me…..
Incidentally, Ray was outstanding……..as always!
nice article..made gud reading.!!
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