| Subject: Re: First time Prommers in the Queue. |
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John U
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Date Posted: 14:33:52 16/05/2002
In reply to:
becs
's message, "Re: First time Prommers in the Queue." on 18:10:31 04/05/2002
I think that is a slightly misleading genralisation. I have heard relatively new, even, once, a first time promenader laying down the law about how the queues should be organised and how people should behave in them.
You don't have to have gone to the Proms for a long time to qualify as anti-social - and witnessing the patience with which people explain to the new arrival who thinks that the space at the front is free to occupy at 7:20 when, in fact, the person who has queued for several hours to stand there is, at that point, out collecting money for charity, is an example of extreme anti-social behaviour being countered by great tolerance and understanding - but sometimes not infinite patience.
There are less than perfect season ticket holders, just as in any other group of people. Most, however, will try and help. However, it is one thing to ask "Where do I queue/get my ticket/go to the loo?" and quite another "What do you mean I can't stand here, I've been queueing for half an hour?" (It being front of the season ticket queue with the Berlin Phil in the evening and it happened at 6 p.m.).
We don't need "appointed" people to do what already happens, whenever needed, from the people who happen to be there at the time. If, for example, you arrive in the Season Ticket queue but haven't been seen before, don't be surprised if someone asks you if you are in the right place - if you weren't and should be in the day queue, you won't want to discover that fact when you don't get in with that queue and the back of the day queue doesn't get in at all.
If you are in the right place, someone has broken the ice. Fundamentally, Promenaders are a friendly bunch. The hostility, such as it is, in my experience is reported by dogmatists who take a statement like "there are no reserved places in the Arena" to mean "I can take you place".
I am not the one being proprietorial - though that claim is made by the one trying to presume ownership - anyone can have the place I would prefer to stand in if they want, all they have to do is arrive in it first. That does not, however, mean going to the pre-prom talk and hiding in the loo after it before rushing in when the queue enters and running to beat those of use who behave with respect and concern for others.
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