Concert Etiquette

[Keli]

I only read the first page of replies but here's my thoughts:
If it was a standing only concert then you do have to be mindful of those around you because everyone is not the same height. If a short person is behind you and you are swaying a lot then you are effectively preventing her from viewing the concert at all and that would be rude.
But if she was sitting down and could easily see just by standing up then I don't feel like you were being rude.
Either way, I don't feel like you were being rude by not realizing you were blocking her view and I don't feel like she was rude for asking you to stop swaying so she could see.
It would only become a rude situation, IMHO, if you refused to quit swaying when she was already standing or if she spoke harshly when asking you to stop swaying.

 

[nataliela]

Of course most of the concerts I go to are Jimmy Buffett ones, and I never see anyone sitting there!

I was thinking "I guess these people have never seen Buffett....."

From what I remember from my last Buffett concert....We were dancing on the seats and the aisle?

But I guess the parrot and sharkfin hats would really make people angry also!




My husband,Parents and I were at a college football game. It’s a smaller school, so the stands are never full. Whenever there was a big play, or the football players would try to pump up the crowd, we would stand and cheer. We were never standing for long.

Well the guys behind us were making comments about not being able to see, although they could easily switch seats because they were the only ones on the row! But one of them actually put his hands on my father and husband and pushed them down until they were seating!!!!!

My husband moved and sat all the way on the other end of the row. I asked my dad what was wrong and he told me…So me, being the sarcastic kid that I am started making comments along the lines “well, last time I was at a LSU game, I didn’t sit down once, my feet were hurting”, “oh, look at the other schools fans! They are all on their feet cheering for their team, such school spirit” “aww, too bad we aren’t allowed to stand and cheer, because the player is trying to get the crowd excited”. We were all so angry that someone would do that.

It turns out we know the guy’s son really well (he had a name tag on and matched the name-he surely took the nametag off after though!) But we never told our friend how rude his father is because we don’t want to ruin our friendship.