Well, sure, you could just stay home and listen to your iPod/mp3 player or CD player (if you are really old fashioned!) , but there's nothing more exciting than getting caught up in the excitement of an audience at a live concert!
However, here are some examples of concert goers that you don't want to be, nor to sit near!

• The Texting Teen: "Well, I came, didn't I? But I will just DIE if I can't keep up with my friends for a whole hour!"
• The Cellphone Chatter: this person is too important to simply disconnect for an entire concert. The whole world might just stop without their advice.
• The Hustled Hubby: his wife would not give up unless he came, but he's got the game on and a cute little earplug that no one will notice.
• The Fidgeting Fusser: "is it almost over? what time is it? what's that instrument? " This person is not ALWAYS a little kid!
• The Bitty Bladder: this person always sits in the middle of a long row, all the better to disturb the most people in the quietest spot of the whole concert. Didn't her/his mother ever tell him/her:"Go before you leave the house!"
• The Napping Nodder: this person jerks awake at every sforzando (i.e. loud parts), sometimes the program from his/her lap clatters noisily for a surefire giveaway.
• The Candy Crumpler: this person may have a cough or just a peripatetic sweet-tooth!
• The Premature Clapper: this person wants to be the first to show his appreciation, either that or he/she just wants to get home and watch the tube; either way , he claps before the baton comes down and the last sound dies away. He don't want anyone to beat them to the draw!
• The Grand Pauser Applauser: this person is a close relative of Premature Clapper, but this one doesn't wait until the durn thing is over, he/she claps or yells "Bravo" in the Grand Pause at any time during the music. Sometimes silence IS golden!
• The Parking Lot Starter: this person needs to reach his car before the final note, so starts for the door soon's he can collect his/her things and climb over everyone in his/her way.
• The Constant Cougher: this person has been out sick from work for the entire week and needs to get out of the house; a little cough is not going to keep him/her from an evening out. Note to this person: Your loyalty is applaudable, but staying home may have been more respectful to the audience and the performers!

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