have gone astray

[coughingbear]

Am off to the Prom tonight (Mahler 9). The following poll is largely based on my experiences at the first night of the Proms this year (Elgar's Cello Concerto and Beethoven's Ninth) with a little input from the last time I went to the opera.

Poll How to behave at concerts

Comments

[ankaret]

How about if I am wearing a purple trouser suit and an unpleasant expression?

[coughingbear]

I probably shouldn't be allowed to shoot you just for that, though it might be acceptable if I have to make conversation with you at the interval.

Tick everything! You have no idea how noisy the plastic bag thing is!

[copperbadge]

I didn't check "you beat the time" but only 'cause that can be done quietly if necessary. I always liked watching the student conductors trying to conduct along with their wee practice batons...

I think all actors should be armed and given one free homicide per show. That seems only fair.

[coughingbear]

True. It's beating it wrongly (especially if that's by tapping your foot or something similar) that really gets to me.

Must now run or I will be late!

[sollersuk]

If I'm bleeding to death other people are likely to start screaming and you probably won't have enough darts for all of them

[legionseagle]

You can't shoot people for beating the time wrongly because it might deprive us of Aubrey and Maturin's lifelong friendship (actually, Maturin practically did challenge him to a duel, but his blood sugar was very low at the time, poor love)

[coughingbear]

I was thinking of them when I wrote that. But I expect Maturin would be very interested to experience the effects of a tranquiliser dart.

[coughingbear]

On Jack, that is.

[nineveh_uk]

At my sole prom experience (last year) people were mostly very good despite the heat, perhaps because it was too much effort to move, and I couldn't really complain about the one major disturbance when just as I was thinking "I wonder how many people faint?" the woman standing next to me did.

I now want to read the proms murder mystery in which the crush of bodies keeps the corpse upright until the very end, at which point in all the milling around the Hideous Death is revealed as it collapses.