I spent nearly all of the PNW Ballet’s efficiency of The Nutcracker shocked by the conduct round me. Fixed whisper-talking, water bottles crinkling, kids screaming. At one level, the girl in entrance of me OPENED HER PHONE, searched “Nutcracker Act 2,” after which scrolled alongside because the efficiency was occurring proper in entrance of her!
Hey, this isn’t your mother’s home! You don’t get to play Wordle whereas the Sugar Plum Fairy is doing her twirls! Possibly we don’t deliver our 3-week-old child to the theater! What if all of us shut the fuck up for two hours and three minutes and appreciated the artistry we paid to see and listen to?
I do know COVID turned our brains into scrambled eggs. For years we absorbed leisure at dwelling, the place we had been free to stare at our telephones and make as a lot noise as we wished. However we’re again on the market once more, and I’m BEGGING you to behave like you might be a part of a society.
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