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Check your coat and briefcase?

 
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Leeloo4_u
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Joined: 13 May 2005
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Location: South Africa

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:51 pm    Post subject: Check your coat and briefcase? Reply with quote

"Check your coat and or briefcase before entering the theatre or restaurant"

I'v seen this statment on numerous websites and wonder what is ment by this, why do you have to check your coat or briefcase?
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Intourist
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Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 245
Location: Moscow

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's part tradition and part sanitation.

I don't think it makes an enormous amount of sense for a few reasons, but the thinking behind it was that your outerwear clothes are dirty and hence unsanitary in restaurants or theatres for those sitting next to you. Much the same way Russians take their shoes off when entering an apartment.

To an extent, I can understand it. Moscow (to start with) IS a dirty place. Underdeveloped road drainage/sewer systems and little run-off landscaping combine to make many parts of Russia VERY dusty. Even if it doesn't rain here, you STILL have to wash your car at least once a week or it will just be brown from dust. Clothes also get dirty more quickly.

What I DON'T understand is the logic about what to do in the summertime. If you're coats are dirty in the wintertime, then arguably what you're wearing in the summer should be equally so, but no one asks you to take off your shirt in a restaurant when it's plus 30C outside.

Anyway, that's the overriding reason behind it.
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Leeloo4_u
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:31 pm    Post subject: interesting Reply with quote

that's interesting I must admit so when people go the the theatre there's hundreds of people standing outside the door faffing around, that must look really funn Smile
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MrSpice
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think this is some kind of general rule written in a tourist manual that does not really happen in real life. I guess in a theater they may make you check your coat in the winter and maybe even your umbrella and suit case. That happened to me in New York, so I would not be surprised to be asked to check this stuff in Moscow.
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Intourist
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MrSpice wrote:
I think this is some kind of general rule


No, it really happens here in Moscow. Most theatres/symphony halls will require you to check your coat, and some restaurants do, although they may not be as strict. However, I was recently (i.e. two months ago) in a relatively central Moscow restaurant with a friend that refused service unless we checked our--relatively light--outer jackets.
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