I do agree that talking out loud, laughing, making out etc. is NOT good behaviour. It also seems that it's the younger people who more often than not are the "offenders", but not always. I took my son to the cinema a few months back, and during the show, a woman's cell phone rang. Did she turn it off? No. Did she tell the person calling her that she was busy and that she would phone him back? No. Did she leave the room to take the call? No. She actually talked. She chatted her way through three conversations on that phone. The kids sitting around her couldn't hear anything but her, the grown ups tried to hush her up, and none of us could believe that this was actually happening. AND THIS HAPPENED THREE TIMES during that show!

While I'm at it, I must confess that my mother and I tend to get sligtly giggly at the opera sometimes. There is something about fat, middle aged women impersonating young, innocent girls that makes me want to laugh. Especially when the hero is about half her size, and it it obvious to everyone there that he wouldn't be able to carry her over the threshold if his life depended on it.

I am terribly embarrassed about it, because I truly enjoy the opera, and I should be able to control myself! But I don't laugh out loud, I don't bring my cell phone, and I don't make out. (Especially not with my mother!) *BG*

Magpie