Mozart Dials M for Murder

You can pick your friends, and you can mostly endure your relatives if they tell good stories and keep the refrigerator well-stocked. It's the guy in the next seat at the concert that gives you the most homicidal thoughts*.

Undesirable characteristics in adjacent ticket-holders include

• knuckle-cracking
• perpetual throat-clearing
• talking during the performance
• bouncing the entire row of seats due to over-caffeinated knee-shaking
• aftershave that causes burning of eyes

The guys in the Meyerson Grand Tier row D, seats 18 and 19 scored in the hundredth percentile this evening. Their mommies must be SO proud.

*Okay, right after the spouse who leaves used dental floss on the floor.