Six Ways Others Will Spoil a Concert for You
Everyone enjoys going to a concert and listening to the performance. How can you help but enjoy a night of classical music where the orchestra plays some of the best compositions of your favorite composers? Nothing could possibly spoil such a wonderful evening out. Or perhaps that is wrong. How many times have you gone to a performance and had it spoiled by obnoxious, rude and noisy people in the audience around you. You know the kind, they seem to do everything they can to make it hard to hear the music; to rob you of the enjoyment of the evening.
Why would someone pay good money to come to a concert and then fall asleep shortly after the performance begins? Yet it seems to happen all too often. The problem is that the person who has drifted off is not just someone quietly sleeping through the concert but will be someone who makes noise while they sleep. The odds are that the person will snore, maybe talk in their sleep, be restless and toss themselves around--maybe even pass gas. None of these will improve the evening for those trying to appreciate the performance.
If a person is ill with a cough or cold, why would they decide to come to a musical performance and share their discomfort with the rest of the audience? A night of listening to them clear their throat, sneezing and coughing as the night persists is no treat. What if the performance is being recorded? How awful it will be when it is played back and all that can be heard is someone’s incessant coughing. At least if someone is ill and still insists on going to the concert they could bring themselves some cough candies.
Candy and snacks during a concert can be fine if that is that a person wants. But what they must not do is spend the entire evening opening noisy candy wrappings and crinkling the paper on whatever snack they are eating. Others would really like to hear the music.
Concerts are a wonderful thing to share with the family but they are not the place for young children who are going to become easily bored. Two plus hours of sittings still is not something that young children are capable of doing. They get bored, they want to talk or whisper and shift around. They may feel the need to play with a toy they brought. None of these things will make for a quiet evening. If someone is unable to get a babysitter, inflicting their child’s bad humor on an entire audience is very unfair.
One thing that drives everyone crazy is the person who forgets, purposely or not, to turn off the cell phone. The phone ultimately will ring during the performance or a text message will be received. This racket can be very distracting especially if the person decides to answer their ringing phone. They will speak loudly since they will need to talk over the music and disrupt the entire performance.
What about the person behind you who is really enjoying the concert and lets you know it by humming, stomping their feet or singing quietly behind you. Or maybe they are using the back of your chair as their own private drum set? Do people not understand that you came to see the concert not hear them singing along with it? The answer quite simply is they do not care.
Neither does the person who brings their game boy to play, complete with lights and sound on, because they really did not want to come to the concert but they promised a friend they would. They noise they are making does not bother them at all.
