When I go to the movies, I usually have to move at least once. I've been in movie theaters during a weekday afternoon, when there was only one other couple in the theater, and they were yakking. Then there's the parent with a baby who needs a gold invitation to take their baby who's been crying for five minutes out of the theater. A couple weeks ago, I was at a movie (Live Free or Die Hard) - the theater was packed, so I couldn't move. There was this fat black guy who laughed at every single incident in the movie.

This is more serious when I go to the performing arts, with its big ticket prices. I spent $110 each for front orchestra tickets for an orchestra performance I really wanted to see. Some people in a row back and about five seats down (I think they were students who got rush tickets) kept jabbering for five minutes. I couldn't take it any more so I turned around and yelled "Shut up!". I think a quarter of the orchestra section heard me, but they shut up.

If you're going to a rock concert - fine: talk, sing, smoke weed, (*)(*)(*)(*), murder, whatever, but everywhere else you shouldn't gab. I always wonder what these people think - do they think a concert is muzak to provide background while they catch up on yak with their friends?