We always direct people to the side to make requests. Another occasional problem we get is people putting their drinks on our bass bins. We either request, politely, that they desist, explaining that the drink will not be safe there and could easily fall over and ruin our equipment, or simply remove the offending item and put it on a table. Either way the drinks are gone within seconds.
A variation on this subject is the time I am reminded of when someone hung his jacket on our lighting rig!!
It didn't stay there long.
Some people, and they are few, fail to understand that they are ab