At the concert on Tuesday evening I was sat on the front row & the lady sitting next to me was playing on her phone during the concert. I was incensed & at the end of the first piece asked her to stop & turn it off. She looked really surprise, but did. The following evening at the opera I was in a box of four. The guy sat behind me was writing messages on his phone during the overture. I could see it out of the corner of my eye, it was so annoying, so at the end of the overture I asked him to stop & turn it off. He said it will go off automatically, it was an iPhone, I said push the button.
At the interval he was so cross with me, he said I'd been rude & shouldn't have told him off, he was sending a message & it was only the overture! I was incensed. Was the message so important is couldn't wait? Was it to the President of the United States? He did smile & said no it wasn't important. I said it was so rude of people who thought they were in their own living room, played on phones, talked, got up & walked around when they were at the theatre or cinema. He said.... wait for it.... it must be an age thing. Me: So your saying I'm old?
After the opera we ended being the last to leave, he gave me his card, invited me to his studio in Aix en Provence & we still stood talking outside in the rain. I think he would have liked to have gone for a drink, but I'd had enough!!!
The moral.
If you're at a concert with me, don't play with your phone.
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