When I go to a concert/show I always take a pocketful of cough sweets just in case a frog lodges itself in my throat.
Some years ago on a visit to Prague I went to see "Rusalka" at the opera house. The magical first act, in a most attractive traditional production, had just begun when loud coughing started to echo along the row where I was seated; it persisted throughout the whole of the act in spite of a box of Tic-tac being passed along by a thoughtful audience member. The wheezy offender turned out to be not only female but English to boot !
Before the pandemic closed the opera house and we stopped attending there was a behavioral tick from those sitting around us that my wife and I found exceptionally annoying. The clacking and ticking on cell phones, people texting during the performance! Invariably and I mean without exception the culprit was female.
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