Eventful theatre trip

I like your retort very much indeed!👍 It’s not as if you had actually rustled any sweet wrappings, which of course is annoying.
I was amazed to see two women put their drinks on the actual stage a few weeks ago from their seat on the front row😳

One thing I move seats for is sweet rustling ,lolly rustling here but he was pretty rude with it. Probably was an ex failed actor, it fits!

Brilliant retort, Primrose 😂😂

Oh dear. DH has a cold and went through half a pack of mints this week at the theatre to sooth his throat so he didn’t cough. And of course as his supportive wife I’d to have one or several as well.

We did open them very quietly in the noisier bits though, and we were by no means the only ones. He bought them at the theatre kiosk which also sells posh crisps….

Primrose , he was very ill mannered to say the least!!! Especially as you were eating sweets that were unwrapped. On the other hand I do object to sweet rustlers when I am in the theatre but when it happens I do not confront the offenders!

It's worse at a cinema. Last time I went the man next to me had a big steaming pile of loaded nachos, a huge cup of Coke that he drank noisily through a straw and finished up with a sharing bag of Kettle crisps. The noise was bad but the smells were worse.

That’s why I like a small rather more “art house” cinema not too far from me which BlueSapphire also knows well.
No popcorn, nachos or coke but wide comfy leather seats with a shelf wide enough for a glass of Merlot!

I went to the cinema recently. for the first time in about 5 years.
It had a refubishment. Great.
But the cinema goers were still there!
I sort of think, would I want whoever in my house, on my couch with me, watching a film?No I wouldnt.

Ok if I can sit several seats away.

Oh for the days when it was just an ice cream tub in the interval.

Love your response Primrose 53 !!
You know the saying, Hell really is other people.!!

It's very distracting when people around you continually have the munchies.

Cadenza123

It's very distracting when people around you continually have the munchies.

I know that but I only started when several others did so. My son said I should have elbowed him and said “wanna sweet?” 🤣

I find the most distracting thing is people turning on their phones for a quick look. Recently my daughter got us theatre tickets. Perfect seats in the middle of the row. A big group arrived and were either side of us. One of them asked us to move along to the end of the row so they could sit together. DH was all for moving but I said no. Why should we sit at the edge when we already had good seats!

It is sweet wrappers and folk sniffing which really annoys me. I have been known to turn and ask if they would like a tissue.

fancythat

I went to the cinema recently. for the first time in about 5 years.
It had a refubishment. Great.
But the cinema goers were still there!
I sort of think, would I want whoever in my house, on my couch with me, watching a film?No I wouldnt.

Ok if I can sit several seats away.

But if you don’t have cinema goers, you soon won’t have a cinema at all

My daughter is terrible - I’m dreading going to a One Direction concert with her on the 22nd. She brings a rucksack full of snacks - the worst culprits are the crisps - I will have to warn her. It’s truly embarrassing 😂

Calendargirl

Oh for the days when it was just an ice cream tub in the interval.

The icecream tubs are available in the foyer beforehand - fine if you can then go straight in and sit down but for some reason we all had to wait for some time and stood eating our icecreams in the queue.

There was a rattler in front of us (sweets or crisps) but I refrained from saying anything.

Jabbing you was uncalled for!

Now we want to know who this bit-player/extra/failed actor is 😁

I do not eat in the theatre at all. My parents never ever bought food when we went to the thetre/cinema, so I never got into the habit.

I would find eating or drinking distracted me from the entertainment.

A glass of wine or soft drink in the interval used to be the norm.

I think it was the first Star War film years ago. We were enjoying the film until the couple behind, who had obviously seen it before, kept saying loudly what was about to happen next! People were shooing etc., but to no avail.

We stopped going to the cinema because of the amount of eating and talking going on around me. I just find it all a distraction from the film. I've had coke spilled on me, crisps spilled on me, chocolate wiped in my hood, and once got home to find a half eaten mint stuck to the back of my leather jacket. We both love films but a film night at home, with or without family or friends, is much more comfortable.

I never eat or drink in a cinema or theatre , I’m quite capable of sitting there for a few hours without food or drink and find it weird that others can’t . I also find munchers and slurpers incredibly annoying . And I’m always horrified when leaving at the end of a film , the amount of popcorn and rubbish left by cinema goers !!!
I’m quite happy with a drink in the interval .

When he claimed to be an actor, you should have asked "And why aren't you on stage then?" I suspect actors are sensitive about not having a job.

I always try to book a seat at the end of a row. I don't like people on both sides of me.. great retort btw Primrose53 must have been very unpleasant smell, not mention behaviour...