People who get up and rush for the exit before the curtain call...

[crispini]

Should be shot at dawn or something. It's SO FRIGGIN RUDE! I mean, tonight, at the opera, the second the curtain drops there are people up out of their seat making a mad dash for their cars. Give me a BREAK! First of all, it is SO rude to the performers. Second, you have already been there THREE hours, another 10 minutes will not kill you. Third, if you hate waiting in a long line of cars to get out of the parking lot, there is a nice pay lot just across the street which is never full and you can exit promptly to the expressway. And you're at the opera, already, so don't tell me you can't pay an extra ten bucks to park.

Now, those if you who get up immediately after curtain during *intermission* to race to the john - I completely approve. :)

[jobycom]

1. Probably many at the end are rushing to the john, too.

Ever notice how long the bathroom line is at the end of a movie? Well, for the women's restroom, anyway.

[crispini]

3. Doubt it, not after two intermissions.

Movies don't have intermissions anymore, opera still does. :)

[jobycom]

8. Yeah, so they drink something at intermission and hold it until the end. nt

[crispini]

9. Honey, if they gotta gotta go between intermission and the last act of Boheme (25 min., tops)

they better be looking into one of those prescription drugs they advertise on TV or something. :D

[jobycom]

11. They don't have to go during the second intermission. The lines are too long

and they decide to hold it so they won't miss any of the show.

[crispini]

12. You have never been in the women's room at the Fair Park Music Hall.

The lines may be long, but damn, they go FAST. They actually have a woman in there directing people to stalls, because they have a whole extra section of toilets that nobody notices. It's like she's air traffic control in the john, hehe.

That said, I'll grant you that a few... a FEW... may be going for the john, but when 100+ people jump up right after the curtain, clutching their coats, and zoom on out ... ESPECIALLY the ones in the front row and the "expensive" seats, who OUGHT to know better... they're going for their cars. And it's rude, rude, rude. :P

[jobycom]

14. No, I'd get arrested for that, but I've waited outside it for others.

A fast-moving line is still a line. And I'll grant you that some--SOME--may be rushing for their cars just to save a few seconds. It's a time honored tradition, is it not? I recall a famous quote to the effect that more than one standing ovation has been caused by someone leaping to their feet to beat the rush to the parking lot. I wonder how often the reverse is true--a rush to the parking lot started by a standing ovation.

[crispini]

16. It may be a tradition in Dallas, but I can reasonably guess

(never having been) that it's not a tradition in New York or in other major metropolitan cities. Makes us look provincial, IMO. The attitude at the end of any performing event, ideally, would be one of appreciation for the performers and savoring of the moment you have just shared, not "Quick, Fred, it's over, let's go to the car and beat the crowd out!"

[jobycom]

19. I imagine in New York it's "Quick, Fred, let's beat the line to the taxis!"

Not to mention, standing and waiting on Broadway is probably a completely different experience in many ways from standing and waiting in Fair Park.

[crispini]

20. Still, just 'cause everyone does it....

doesn't mean it's right. :P

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Same as when a plane lands

Yeah, everybody, jump up and start rummaging through the overhead compartments. Slap your fat belly and belt buckle against the side of my head, why don't you? It will go far in getting you off the plane all of two or three minutes ahead of me, the one who stayed seated and leisurely left the plane after you cattle rumbled off.

They're so important, I suppose, that they simply must DASH to the next thing.

I'll never be that important, for which I am grateful.

[crispini]

4. Haha true. Never thought of it that way.

Although I suppose some of them are trying to make connections.

[AirmensMom]

5. Not only that,

but they'll miss the encore, if there is one. :P


Which opera did you see? :bounce:

[crispini]

6. True.

La Boheme. Lovely. The Rodolfo hit it out of the park. :)

[AirmensMom]

7. OMG, that one

is just so beautiful! :loveya: I don't think there's a Puccini opera that I don't like.

I'm glad it was good. :fistbump:

[3.14158675309]

10. Poseurs

Rude people really suck.

[LynzM]

13. This was my dad. :(

Every event we went to, we'd leave early to beat traffic... I always felt so embarassed. :(

[crispini]

18. Hahaha.

I guess we can't help what our parents do. :D

[UndertheOcean]

15. Is that at the Met ?

[crispini]

17. Ha. No, and I doubt seriously that people at the Met would do that.

Although I don't know, never having been.

[dembotoz]

21. it is because they just farted