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

[Openbook]

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

i agree
nto the balrdy sahara is it

I find all eating and drinking at the theatre annoying but can ignore it if it's done quietly. Theatres usually spend loads of cash on getting the acoustics right for the stage but it makes all the rustling of sweet wrappers mega loud!

Went to see "Dial M for murder" and the stage descended into darkness as the person was about to be murdered and it went silent....hushed with suspense...person behind me asked her neighbour loudly at this point..."Is that a purple one?" asking about her Quality Street!

What about when you take your kids to a show and there's half of them waving those light display things around?....Everyone but me seems oblivious to them!

SK

If she was slurping YANBU. And your OP DID say 'slurping'. When I'm the president, I shall ban eating and drinking in public. Especially by people who chew with their mouths open.

YANBU.

I'm another one who doesn't think it's necessary to drink water every five minutes in case you shrivel.

Schoolchildren are now encouraged to slurp water continuously, leading to frequent toilet visits. They are surprised when I tell them they can't in my lessons. (Health and safety about consuming things in science lab trumps need for continuous slurping, and anyone who is that thirsty can go outside for a drink).

My grandparents don't drink water ever. They have lived to 85 years old on tea alone. They are fairly shrivelled, now I think about it......

YABU, I'm sure its been covered but there are quite a few different medical reasons why people might need to keep drinking. I and my mum both have an (otherwise unnoticeable) condition that means we have to drink very regularly so yes neither of us could wait until the interval.

that said, if she was acutally 'slurping' then yes that is extremely annoying and I could understand you being a bit irritated.

This is yet another brilliant thread, on a par with the MIL/ wrapping paper one. It's got to be a wind-up, right?

You'd hope so SpeedyG - but alas, no

hmc - am rofling even harder, then! Have started own thread along similar lines - I think the full moon has brought something out in people tonight, there are so many of these ridiculous threads tonight!

I have always been completely down on water bottles and looked sternly at those of my students who seem to feel the need for refreshments during lectures. Until I came down with a bad chest infection at on New Year's Eve that has left me with such an irritable throat that I still, 2 months later, can't get through a short bus journey into town, let alone a whole seminar without sipping water: otherwise pandemonium breaks out. I'm perfectly fit, but the slightest dryness in the air sets me coughing like a machine gun. very embarrassing

One of the major symptoms of dehydration is irritability

oh FFS YABU

pregnant or diabetic, dry throat?

i despair sometimes

My mother has been a T1 diabetic for 33 years, I have never known her need to carry a bottle of water around like some sort of festival-going hippy.

I always take water, because otherwise I faint (especially when pg which I am atm).

I'm sure if you went back in time to a theatre 100 or 200 years ago, the audience would have taken food/drink in - they were far less genteel than nowadays! And the food might have ended up being thrown at the stage if the performance was poor!

Seriously, if someone finds sips of water necessary, it's hardly the crime of the century.

Sips of water, can't see the problem. Although I absolutely detest slurping noises. they make my teeth itch when I hear them
Went to see 'the woman in black' with DP a few years ago. Tickets aren't exactly cheap, and the entire play relies on the tension and atmosphere it creates for effect. Unfortunately we were sitting next to a group of people who were talkin loudly, guffawing constantly (don't know what the hell they were laughing at) and playing about with their mobiles. THey spoiled the whole play for everyone else in the stalls.
A lot of very angry people had an argument with them as soon as the play finished.
That's far worse than sipping water.

Well, I sip (not slurp) water fairly constantly - it's sip or cough - I think sipping is far preferable than coughing... OP is just a troll looking for a bridge and we've given it one.

Someone drinking water wouldn't annoy me. Someone 'slurping' it noisily or rummaging around in a bag for it everytime they wanted a sip would drive me mad. Likewise people rustling through bags of sweets and handing boxes of chocolates up and down the row.

I´m with the OP on this one.

Most people could wait until the interval, but it seems that the new culture is that food/drink needs to be immediately available at all times.

there is far more air-conditioning around now than there used to be. This dries the air out and means that more people probably do need to drink water more regularly. The more you get used to drinking water regularly, the more "necessary" it becomes.

What I thought was barbaric was not being allowed to have water on stage with us during choral concerts. EVer since I had a particularly gruesome attack of laryngitis, I have had problems with singing without water - I certainly can't go for half the performance without it, or I would be coughing my lungs up (not useful in the quiet soulful solo sections) so I had to develop a very interesting tube arrangement and place small vials of water in my skirt pocket, that could be accessed in non-singing moments. My friends found it hilarious but I couldn't have managed without it.

I think the OP is beyond ridiculous, especially as half her beef seems to be that drinking water out of bottles is infantile. FFS!

Sipping out of a glass isn't going to be noticed by others behind you in the theatre/cinema but swigging out of a bottle is more conspicuous as the height of the bottle goes above the head and the head moves back quite a bit.

It is all about consideration- people should avoid drawing attention away from the play/film.

So OP YANBU, adults should be able to manage without a drink for an hour or should take care to be inconspicuous.

What really annoys me is if someone is constantly swigging away during a play or a film and then has to disturb you and the whole row several times to go out to the loo.

YABVU.

DP has to have a drink wherever he goes, even in the winter. If he goes for more than about 1/2 hr without a drink he'll be ill for the rest of the day, in the summer if he goes for that long without a drink he'll be in hospital for a few days with dehydration. He drinks a minimum of 15pts of water a day (that's in the winter) - the recommended being 4pts. Test after test after test for the last 20 years have shown nothing, but nonetheless he needs to always have a drink with him.

I'll tell him to grow up and stop being so infantile.

I think that if the person was drinking quietly/sipping from the bottle then YABU, BUT, if she was slurping, as the OP stated, i would also be very pissed off. Theatre tickets are not cheap and there is nothing more annoying than having to endure sitting next to someone in the theatre who chooses to noisily eat and drink, use their phone, talk at the top of their voice etc etc. I think that is the crux of the post, OP said the lady was slurping at a play. Theatres are not cinemas and as someone else said, it is not only the other audience members who can be distracted by unneccessary noise, but also the cast and stage crew.

You lot agreeing with the op would have had a very judgy time at the theatre over its long history. What with the hectoring, throwing missiles, eating pies and general cackling of the audience, never mind the smell? This sterile hush bush oh so considerate world of theatre is fairly new y'know