Subject: dealing with hecklers
From:
Roger in Sheffield
Date: 01 May 01 - 03:34 PM
Last night at a pub session someone was singing unaccompanied and everyone was listening intently, when a spiteful voice cut through the room. An old woman who had be sitting fairly quietly in the corner had obviously had more than enough to drink. "Its like being at a wake" she said loudly and then chuckled to herself. The singer bravely continued and everyone in the room ignored the heckler, this did not work though, she had found her voice and was going to have some fun. So the next performer was also heckled, much to the annoyance of his wife and everyone else. Many people politely asked the hecker to be quiet, or move to one of the other rooms in the pub, but she was having non of it. Luckily this was right at the end of the night anyway or I am not sure what would have happened. I wasn't sure what to do, this old lady was offending people who I think of as friends yet she was beyond any reasoning with, and I wasn't sure if I could be arrested for dragging her out of there!
So just in case she turns up next week do you have any ideas?
Roger
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