BEHAVE YOURSELVES Hi! My name is Nana and this is my first blog ever. Please feel free to comment and hopefully we can learn together as this goes along.

In the New York Post today there is a mention on Page Six of Frances McDormand’s Tony Nominated, and probably in the bag winning, performance in “Good People” being interrupted by a ringing cell phone in the balcony. Now, you might be thinking, “Oh, come on Nana! It’s terrible that it happened but it is a human error. Some poor gal just forgot or didn’t know how to turn off her cell phone ringer during the performance. “ Poor old Nana would have to correct you. Not only did the gal’s phone ring, she answered it! Ms. McDormand was forced to say aloud from the stage, “When you’re done, we’ll resume.”

Here’s the thing. If your behavior is being monitored and commented on by people who are on stage and performing for thousands of others, someone, somewhere, has dropped the parenting ball. This total lack of respect for anyone but oneself has to have begun in childhood by a mother and father that over indulged their child. Folks who taught her the world was hers for the taking and all others be damned. I would love to call up this gabby gal’s mother and just let her have it! However, if it works the way Nana thinks it would, the mother would be appalled that she even dared talk of her offspring in this manner. The acorn does not fall far from the tree my dears!

I have a friend who says that all of this grandiose selfishness is Madonna’s fault. I am not talking about Jesus’s mother here but the one who talked about being a ‘like a Virgin’, when she was anything but. She does seem to have heralded in a generation of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, prigs who not only don’t care about anyone but themselves, but seem to revel in the attention of ill manners!

As you may know, New York City and its Mayor Mr. Bloomberg have created new stringent non-smoking laws that are to be mostly policed by fellow citizens. In other words, if someone is annoyed by your smoking they will remind you that it is illegal in that area, etc. So perhaps this is how the misbehaving boars in the theater should be dealt with. If your phone rings during the show the person/people next to you should chastise you until you stop breaking the rules! Nana has a cat named Guadalupe who likes to eat her wandering Jew plant. This problem has been handled with the use of a spray bottle filled with water and Nana’s good aim at a fleeing feline. At the beginning of the show patrons could be given their program and a water filled spritz bottle. I am just making a suggestion.

Nana’s worst experience in a theater concerns a lady seated next to her who arrived right as the lights were dimming. She settled down in her seat and began to rummage around in her bags that were around her feet. Out came a full box of Dunkin’ Donut holes which she began to devour. Nana huffed and puffed a few times but was ignored by the hungry theater goer. Finally Nana said, “really are you going to eat the whole box?” She responded, “oh, sorry. Would you like one?”

It was delicious.