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.

Yes, but you didn't have to pay half a week's salary in those days to get a ticket in.

The OP said: "I think to have to have a water bottle with you at the theatre is common tbh and an infantile habit". Doesn't sound like noisy drinking was the problem, it sounds more like the OP's head was so far up her own bottom she couldn't hear the dialogue.

I bet it was a fair whack of a groundling's wages though

pmsl speedy!

Fleur - really - interesting technique. There are other ways you know

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