Picture of Difford and Tilbrook playing Hourglass since I didn’t take a picture of the guy who paid an admission fee to sit in a loud room and do crosswords on his phone.

  • AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com
    116·
    1 month ago

    Anyone who says the guy was “enjoying the show differently” is an idiot. They were just screwing up the show for the people behind them, and they’re probably a sociopath.

    As for possible reasons he was on his phone;

    • Argument with partner/friend - possibility resulting in them not going - spilled into the show via text (should have left)
    • Planted security, already seen the show a dozen times, just waiting for something rowdy enough to require intervention
    • Music/event/venue reviewer (seen all kinds of reviewers who apparently have a 5 second memory insist on taking notes in-situ. Movie critics are the fucking worst about this.)
    • Work “emergency”, fixing from phone

    Could probably come up with more, but it would be along these lines.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Like I said, he was playing games on his phone, so there was no emergency. We watched him do a crossword puzzle while we were trying to not be distracted.

      • AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com
        32·
        1 month ago

        Oh jeez. Missed that part.

        Okay, yeah, either the security guard thing, or maybe their group was elsewhere and they were the designated driver or something? I dunno, totally dumb that they we in the middle of the audience and not in the back row or in their car.