# I pit the rude audience members who left our performance to watch the fireworks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rude-audience-members-who-left-our-performance-to-watch-the-fireworks/393086 "2007-02-21T14:13:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rude-audience-members-who-left-our-performance-to-watch-the-fireworks/393086/41 "2007-02-25T22:26:19Z")
According to [this page](http://blogs.usatoday.com/cruiselog/2007/01/ship_report_cun_1.html) Americans are by no means the majority on that ship. > [@](#): > > Of note is the diversity of passenger origins. Americans are the largest group on this trip, with 910 passengers. But that’s just 39% of the total. The line’s British heritage remains a big draw to British vacations, who make up another 31% of the total (726 passengers). Germans (242 passengers), Canadians (140) and Australians (86) are the next largest groups, but in all 34 nationalities are represented. Assuming that the people who left were American (if they were connected with the QM2 at all) is a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, IMO. They could just as well have been British, European, Canadians – or even Aussies. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rude-audience-members-who-left-our-performance-to-watch-the-fireworks/393086/42 "2007-02-25T22:28:44Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Uhhh … where did the OP say that they were Americans? I didn’t know US citizens had a monopoly on being crass. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Check my location, then re-read the snippet you quoted. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rude-audience-members-who-left-our-performance-to-watch-the-fireworks/393086/43 "2007-02-25T22:53:15Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] Isn’t the _real_ problem the dudes who scheduled the fireworks to go off during your performance? [/QUOTE] Totally. But the audience should have committed to the entire performance or not gone to it at all. Walking out on a live performance is pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rude-audience-members-who-left-our-performance-to-watch-the-fireworks/393086/44 "2007-02-27T15:52:33Z")
If anyone walks out of a live performance before it finishes, the only implication is that they don’t think much of it (or, as in this case, that they would rather be somewhere else, which is just as bad). As such, it is hugely disrespectful to the performers - these people should think how they would feel if they were on stage and a large group walked out halfway through. The only possible excuse would be that they had to be back aboard the ship and did not realise how long the performance was, but that shows ridiculously poor planning (unless the show started late) and doesn’t sound like the reason. I don’t imagine that the fireworks could be heard inside the Opera House, nor that the music could be heard outside - the one would drown out the other in any case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rude-audience-members-who-left-our-performance-to-watch-the-fireworks/393086.md?page=2)