DEAR MISS MANNERS: I participated in a classic practice tour. At a number of factors within the journey, the engineer stopped the practice so that folks might disembark to take images and movies.
Throughout one photograph op, some fans beside me had been chatting when a pair of Spielberg wannabes rebuked them, saying, “We’re attempting to get sound on this shot.”
Miss Manners ought to know that these bros had not requested for quiet earlier than the filming started. The unfairly chastened passengers didn’t say something. I seemed their means and rolled my eyes in sympathy.
Does Miss Manners agree with me that making individuals really feel like fools is impolite?
GENTLE READER: Who precisely are the fools? The individuals pretending {that a} public place is their movie set, or those innocently attempting to benefit from the expertise for which they paid?
By no means thoughts. Miss Manners is aware of the reply. Actual life is merely surroundings and photographs, and the individuals who occur to get in the best way of it, unruly extras.
However in actuality, these extras weren’t getting paid, nor benefiting from product endorsement offers, which suggests the would-be cinematographers needs to be thoughtful of them — not the opposite means round.
Your sympathy was warranted. And the unfairly chastened pair might have moderately stated, “We weren’t conscious that we had been on a sound stage.”
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