It's horrible to be in the audience and have that cough. I was at the opera one time, and the cough from flu came back. I wanted to trade with a woman on the end seat so I could get up and go out when I felt it coming on. I was three seats in from the aisle--no big deal, but she wouldn't do it. I guess she preferred to hear me cough? In the end I missed a lot of the opera, standing out in the hall, beause I feared a knife in my back if I didn't get out of there.

SRS