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AIBU?

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Original poster

since when did a trip to the theatre

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mileniwmffalcon · 12/04/2009 13:30

become an occasion for a 3 course meal? not before/after the show - during.

it's a matinee, it's 2 o'clock, could the audience possibly survive until tea time without a mountain of sweets, crisps, chocolate, grapes, icecream? apparently not.

explain yourselves wrapper rustling face stuffers

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Mumcentreplus · 12/04/2009 13:43

were children involved?

Flibbertyjibbet · 12/04/2009 13:44

Do grapes come with rustly wrappers now?

Or were they seedy ones that the people behind you ate whilst spitting the pips into your hair

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mileniwmffalcon · 12/04/2009 13:59

children were involved in some cases, but not those sat nearest who were troughing as hard as the rest. i lolled at the grapes as a healthy alternative, whereas surely a healthy alternative would be waiting until teatime to eat...

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Numberfour · 12/04/2009 13:59

i have not been to the theatre for AGES but the crunching of popcorn at the movies drives me to the brink of insanity!

i feel your pain ................

twinsetandpearls · 12/04/2009 14:01

I hope they peeled those grapes.

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mileniwmffalcon · 12/04/2009 14:04

see i expect it in the pictures (though tbh i still don't understand it), but i suppose i imagined spending upwards of £35 on a ticket might attract a more restrained kind of audience

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Mumcentreplus · 12/04/2009 14:05

I'm a muncher..I luurvvee to munch at the movies......how tha heck do you hear the crunching when the sound is so loud in the cinema?...are you married to a muncher who sits next to you?

lottiejenkins · 12/04/2009 14:06

In the 1950's the wonderful late Joyce Grenfell threatened to walk off stage whilst on tour in Sydney if the noisy Australians in the audience carried on unwrapping their noisy chocolates! The audience put their chocolates away!!

Mumcentreplus · 12/04/2009 14:08

I don't munch at the theatre though...when I've taken my children I might bring a snack for the interval..or some water..v strange imo

BexieID · 12/04/2009 14:08

If you are unfortunate enough to have a muncher either side of you in the cinema you get the munching in stereo! Really annoys me.

Mumcentreplus · 12/04/2009 14:09

Bexie

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mileniwmffalcon · 12/04/2009 14:10

why mumcentre? why? what's wrong with just going to watch a film/show/whatever and, well, watching, rather than stuffing your face? are you afraid you might not have the energy to stay upright otherwise?

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Mumcentreplus · 12/04/2009 14:14

hehehe..it's just what I do when I go to the movies...it's all part of the cinema experience..thats why...tis simple..I never sleep in the movies popcorn or not..

Numberfour · 12/04/2009 14:14

munching at the theatre does seem worse, i agree!

and i must confess to gorging on an extra large bucket of popcorn myself when i go to the movies.

i am allowed to eat popcorn, but when i have finished, everyone else has to stop as well. simple.

islandofsodor · 12/04/2009 14:16

I totally agree. I never eat in a theatre, possibly because I worked for several years in a classical concert hall where the only thing allowed inside the hall was a special make of cough sweets with non rustle wrappers. You couldn;t so much as take a cup of water inside.

We went to Billy Elliot last weekend (Xmas present £65 per ticket eek!) and a man in the row behind me talked all the way through 'Electricity' one of the pivotal moments in the show.

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mileniwmffalcon · 12/04/2009 14:20

coming back to the children issue, what are you teaching them? that it's not possible to sit still and concentrate for an hour or so until the interval without a bucket/sack full of sugar? (in fact the logic in that completely escapes me)

or if it's bribery/crowd control, consider not taking them to shows they're clearly too young for or not interested in

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Mumcentreplus · 12/04/2009 14:21

were those tinned grapes in syrup?

onthepier · 12/04/2009 14:46

I know what you mean, I recently took my dc's to a matinee, + had lunch before we went.

Just a few minutes before the show was due to start, a family bustled past us to get to their seats, each carrying a Mcdonald's happy meal box, munching + rustling all through the first half, very irritating, especially as half the family were adults!!

ellceeell · 12/04/2009 15:50

I went to the theatre recently - a children's show. Ten minutes after it started the woman behind me started offering sweets to her three children, asking which bar they would each like, unwrapping them for them and passing them along the row. Before she started they had been sitting quietly, happily engrossed in the show. So, why did she have to do that?
Mind you, a dad left the audience about half way through (no interval)- much "excuse me" as people had to stand up to let him out. He went to the bar, got a beer and brought it back to his seat!

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