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Etiquette?

Posted by:	FriendofDorothy 12:52 am EDT 03/17/14
In reply to:	re: Earliest audience snoozing ever? - lowwriter 09:55 pm EDT 03/16/14

What is the proper etiquette? Should the neighbor actively wake them? I find it to be a more volatile situation than a phone abuser, which involves deliberate bad behavior. When people are woken up, they can be startled, make noise, or even be a little frightened for a moment until grogginess wears off. I have nodded off once in a show, due to exhaustion not the production, and when I woke up (probably 10 minutes later, I doubt I snored since no one around me seemed bothered) I went home.

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re: Etiquette?

Posted by:	AlanScott 01:37 am EDT 03/17/14
In reply to:	Etiquette? - FriendofDorothy 12:52 am EDT 03/17/14

I hate to remember the night that I kept nodding off while sitting in the front row at a play starring two extremely famous and extraordinarily respected actors. I was just very tired, and back then I never drank coffee. And that first row was very near the stage. I kept nodding off and then trying to force myself awake and then nodding off again. Fortunately, I was quite awake during the second (probably thanks to my dozing in the first act). I wonder if they were appalled to see me still there when the lights went up for act two. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do. Even if I had thought to myself during the first act, "I need to get out of here rather than keep nodding off," it would have been worse to get up when I was sitting dead center in the first row. ;)

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