To expect a grown woman to sit through a play without slurping from her water bottle

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Can she really not wait till the interval to have a drink? It's infantile.

I take a bottle of water to the theatre because changes in atmosphere sometimes make me cough, I think coughing my head off would be more disturbing for others. I don't slurp however.

I also had the temerity to go to the theatre when I was having chemotherapy, and had to sip water because my throat had been damaged during treatment - my DS took me as a surprise treat. I didn't know sick people weren't welcome at the theatre.

When I was at a classical concert once, an old man two rows in front collapsed with a heart attack - that made a hell of a disturbance - the inconsiderate bastard

I'm with the OP.

No-one used to drink water all the time and you don't see thousands of dried-up paper-thin people wandering around because they all got so dehydrated. And it's so tiresome when people chime in with "medical condition!" to excuse all anti-social behaviour. No, that person eating a burger on the tube has probably not got diabetes, they are just a slob.

In fact if I became a dictator tomorrow I would ban eating and drinking in public (except for restaurants etc). It is gross.

I really should hide this thread after this post as it'll only wind me up and distract me from lesson planning...

I'm sure that the OP will now say that yes, she could hear the lady drinking. I suspect though that the word 'slurp' in the title was meant derogatorily as against onomatopoeiacally. Her right to comfort hardly surpasses the other audience member's, unless you was being unreasonably loud I don't see what the problem was.

I guess it is just the OP thinking the other lady was a little tacky for some reason...though how a water bottle is an indicator of this I don't know.

Well my daughter has Type 1 diabetes. She HAS to eat when necessary, perhaps I should just keep her inside forever so as not to offend?

There are lots of reasons why she might have needed to keep sipping from a water bottle, so YAB a bit U, but...

where does this automatic 'i am in a cinema, I must now stock up on £10 worth of food' brainwash thing come from? I do it myself, but at home I can sit through several hours of telly without robotically consuming a mini tub of Ben & Jerrys, a bucket of popcorn, another bucket of Diet Coke and some Revels. Although I do need tea. Maybe Odeon cinemas should offer a tea and biscuits facility.

I do think it's bad manners and looks infantile to be drinking from a bottle of water all the time. Some of you don't, so that's that. I agree it is a petty issue.

I confess to find this unreasonably annoying but that might be a generational thing. I am quite aged . There was a time when people coped with doing things without having a constant supply of water. And then sometime in the 80s I suppose a bottle of water became an essential accessory - I think it was supposed to give the impression that the carrier had either just come from the gym or was too high-powered and busy to do anything as mundane as stop to eat and drink.

Yes I am quite prepared to beleive that there is a minority of people who might need to drink from time to time in a theatre, but not many. Most of us can cope for 30 minutes without it.

Infantile? You're off your trolley....

I'm with alittlebitshy. I have am asthmatic as well. Places with air-conditioning make me cough. Obviously if it's more annoying for me to sip water, than for me to be coughing like a 60 a day smoker then of course I'll be happy to stop

In fact I'll sit right behind you so you can then be paranoid about whether I was also considerate enough to put my hand over my mouth first...

I really wish you could edit posts (or I could remember to reread them first...)

I can cope for 30 mins and do, I just never realised I could be spoken about so derogatorily about were I not to. I think it was more the tone of the OP and subsequent posts that got my goat more than anything else, I'm in a bad mood as I'm on hour 5 of lesson planning so I'm sulking!

I don't get the cinema food thing at all, apart from the fact that it is so expensive do people sit at home and eat Minstrels or M&Ms every time they watch a film?! I always have a drink near me (sorry OP!) at home but certainly not food. I kind of get popcorn as that is a traditional part of the 'cinema experience', but where did the nacho thing come from?!

Annoying if they were really slurping but I really dont think grown ups do that do they?

I have recently had my saliva gland removed so you would hate to sit next to me as i have to drink a lot due to dryness - maybe she had a problem like that too?

The OP is being unreasonable in her Hyacinth Bucket lofty and haughty tone, however I agree in essence with her sentiments. People seem to be unable to function at these places unless they have food and drink to hand. I hate the sound of rustling packets and loud crunching, so much so that I rarely go to the cinema for that very reason.

Oh, this thread is making me laugh and laugh. Love "I get there in time for a drink ( out of a glass)"

Why is it tiresome to chime in with 'medical conditions' when such things exist.That's fairly offensive. Those of who have are simply trying to offer an explanation as to why someone might need to drink frequently.

If it was bothering the OP that much she should have asked the woman if she'd stop because it was disturbing her. She might have got a feasible explanation, or the woman might have stopped.

of course thesecondcoming people NEVER exaggerate in their OPs do they???

I agree with OP! Think it's crazy that people can't go for a couple of hours or so without CONSUMING CONSUMING CONSUMING.

Why don't you pay for a box next time, so that the ordinary hoi polloi don't offend you?

My SIL always takes a bottle of water to the theatre. She coughs, she can't help it, the more she tries not to the more she does. So when she feels a cough coming she has a little sip.

She doesn't slurp though.

If it was AIBU to expect a grown woman to sit through a play without munching a family size pack of Doritos, then you'd have a point. But drinking water? Really? You really need to find something else to bug you because that's a pretty pathetic reason to get wound up. In fact this is one of the silliest AIBUs I've ever seen.

Thanks for the idea of banning eating and drinking in public gramercy. Sign me up for diabetic house arrest. You have been convicted of having a malfunctioning pancreas..

OP hilarious and clearly bonkers. Infantile? Was the offending lady also suckling a breast or throwing pureed carrots towards the stage?

Ah, but you haven't been into any kind of lecture/college setting these days have you? A water bottle is an essential accoutrement, to be clutched as fervently as on your Gap Year traveling round Goa. The thought of getting through a lecture without life restoring water is as horrific as crawling through an oasis-free desert. I just don't know how we managed it without shriveling up....

bellisima!