posted on May 14, 2001 10:02:59 AM new
This may not be a topic as serious as some in this forum but I want to know what you all think.
I went to see "The Mummy Returns" yesterday for the second time, the place was packed. About five minutes after I come in a family of six find seats right in front of me. This family had a child of about three or four. As soon as the movie starts the woman's cell phone rings so I have to listen to her talk about interior decorating for about five minutes. When her cell phone was not ringing or she was not jumping up to run to God only knows where and coming back to talk over the aisle her family was in which was right next to me she was covering up the kids eyes so he wouldn't see the scary parts. I understand wanting to protect your children from things you deem not appropriate for them, but why would you take him to see a movie called "The Mummy Returns", that should be a big hint that there are going to be a few images that may give a kid nightmares. Why not take them to see a more Disney type movie?
posted on May 14, 2001 10:13:00 AM new
More than anything even the kids at an inappropiate movie Cell Phones and the conversations NO ONE wants to hear. Many public places do not allow cell phones, libraries, restaurants etc. Movies should definitely not allow them...you and many others have paid your money to see a film, not listen to the phone conversation of a mental midget (yes that is my opinion of someone who places others in an uncomfortable position)Having to listen to someone's phone conversation is definitely uncomfortable.
posted on May 14, 2001 10:18:32 AM new
I don't know, each parent should decide what movie is appropriate, I wouldn't take my kids when they were that age to a movie like that, but thats me.
BUT Cell phones are banned in a lot of places now. They have signs with a picture of a cell phone with red line thru it.
They should be banned from your theater, that and pagers.
posted on May 14, 2001 10:39:02 AM new
More than anything even the kids at an inappropiate movie Cell Phones and the conversations NO ONE wants to hear. Many public places do not allow cell phones, libraries, restaurants etc. Movies should definitely not allow them...you and many others have paid your money to see a film, not listen to the phone conversation of a mental midget (yes that is my opinion of someone who places others in an uncomfortable position)Having to listen to someone's phone conversation is definitely uncomfortable.
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Thank you! It's not only the fact that these idiots leave their cell phones on during movies or at a restaurant or in class or in my case a sales meeting, it is the fact that they are confident enough in their driving abilities to get out on the road with a damn phone glued to their ear. I have been in several near accidents with a person on a cell phone that can't figure out why I am so angry that they almost hit me. When cell phones first came out, I thought it was great for emergencies. Now, not one day goes by that I don't see some idiot on a cell phone while driving bad enough to cause a very serious accident. What could be sooooo very important that you need to use a cell phone while driving? NOT ONE SINGLE THING. If it is that important, pull over to the side of the road. I have grown to loathe cell phones and when I friend tells me that they have just gotten one, I always warn them against using them while driving to which they ALWAYS answer "Hey, I am a safe driver." In few such cases I have had friends get into accidents while talking on a cell phone. I have never seen one person on a cell phone that is a "safe driver" I have watched morons hold up traffic at a red-light because they are too busy with their conversation to notice that the light has changed. But what really frosts me is when one these "safe drivers" causes a wreck bad enough to kill or injure someone. They piss and moan and apologize that caused an accident that could have been avoided.
posted on May 14, 2001 10:46:30 AM new
ki9272649....you say that her cell phone calls were about Interior Decorating? I wonder what kind of message that leaves her kids with, on a family night out??? Shows you where her priorities are!
posted on May 14, 2001 10:51:38 AM new
BUT Cell phones are banned in a lot of places now. They have signs with a picture of a cell phone with red line thru it.
They should be banned from your theater, that and pagers. >>>>
This is true, both are banned. Apparently people do not care. If I had been my usual self I would have complained to management. The reason I didn't is because I got on a health kick this week and decided since school was out I would do a little dieting and working out and try to lose some weight I have aqquired during the semester and get into shape so I could get up a flight of stairs without wheezing and turning blue. I think I have pulled every muscle in my body except maybe the ones in my fingers and face. I can hardly walk. It is painful to even sneeze and it took me about ten minutes to walk into the theater and find a seat. I was not about to get up and go complain. As for getting into shape, I am starting to think blue is my color.
[ edited by ki9272649 on May 14, 2001 10:57 AM ]
posted on May 14, 2001 11:12:03 AM new
I like the bumper sticker I've seen, "HANG UP THE PHONE, AND DRIVE!" In my opinion the cell phone is a technological convenience (and may cause a brain tumor) that much of humanity appears too imature to responsibly use or self centered to be without. I'm amazed or should I be?
The Mummy thing <chuckle, chuckle>. Your story takes me back to the early 60's when I was just a little kid and we had a local station host "Science Fiction Theater" on Saturday afternoons. It showed all the "B" and "C" rated movies of the 50s era or "scary movies" of the as mama called them. I remember once watching "The Beast From 20K Phathoms"(spelled right?) and it gave me nightmares for a week! Mama said, "Alright buster, no more scary movies for you unless dad is with you!" It really made her mad because she knew I knew better. Anyway, SFC showed "The Black Scorpion", and OH...I had to see that one!. So brother, sister and I snuck a small TV into sister's room and watched it and got really scared. Mama heard what was going on and down the hall we could hear, "You better not be watching that scary scorpion movie or you're going to get it!" Before we could turn off the set we got busted. I ended up sitting on a stool (so she thought) in the middle of my room for a half hour. Not to mention, I got a spanking first! Too some this may sound severe, but that was one of the many ways she showed that she loved us and cared for our welfare. What fond memories!
posted on May 14, 2001 11:25:17 AM new
We have become a "self-absorbed" society in just the past 25 years or so. I really am not looking forward to where we are headed....During my "formative" years, my parents stressed thinking of others first. Then, during the 70's psycologist began touting "taking care of number one". That seems to be where many are today. They have come to believe they are the "center of the universe" and everything should revolve/evolve around them.
posted on May 14, 2001 11:49:15 AM new
I was at the gym the other day, and the gal on the stair master next to me whipped out her cell phone and started yakking! I couldn't believe it! How can somebody do an aerobic workout and "chat". Why WOULD anybody want to "chat" on the phone in the middle of their workout? I'm huffing and puffing and sweating like heck for 25 minutes, NO WAY can I carry on a conversation with someone.
posted on May 14, 2001 11:59:09 AM new
First of all, I feel fortunate this business has allowed me the luxury of going to the movies during the mid week daytime - when most everyone else is working 9-5 and kids are in school or lounging by the pools.
I have also had times when I chose to go during peak hours. One such time, I went with my brothers and sister and their children - a total of 14 people. We were raised with good manners and so were the younger children - so we sat quitely and watched the movie and if we felt the need to comment - it was through a silent whisper in the ear of the person next to us. Unfortunately, there was a young woman behind us - who talked through the first half of the movie to her boyfriend about how he was "better looking than Brad Pitt" and how she "could never date anyone as 'pretty' as Brad Pitt". (It was a Brad Pitt movie) She commented on every detail of the movie from the clothes to the scenery. I began to feel maybe it was just me, until I noticed others turning and 'giving her the eye'. Finally, I just blew my top and turned to her and said "Must you comment on every detail of the movie?" . When the applause died down her boyfriend looked at her and said "You are talking a lot".
Another time, I went during mid day mid week with a friend, we were the only ones in the theatre. Watched the movie in quiteness, then the final 15 minutes of the movie the projectionist, a young man, began to loudly beat on the window in his booth - like his was playing drums.
I will not hesitate to inform the manager when I have a less than satisfactory experience. Most times the manager will offer tickets for another time.
I don't understand people who insist on driving and using a cell phone. I have about decided these people 'like' to hear themselves talk and will always be that way. I won't ride with someone who must talk and drive. Pull to the side of the road if it is that important.
My thoughts on this issue have gone 'Un-Surveyed' and may not be of importance to the P.T.B.
posted on May 14, 2001 12:41:50 PM new
The same gal who'd stairmaster and phone at the same time is the same kind of gal who would drive and eat a full plate of spaghetti at the same time. Yup! Saw it first hand. I slowed down and watched this gal slump over her plate, twist and turn her fork into the spaghetti. She munched it down and drove the car with only her left palm!!! She should've been on Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Actually, she should have been arrested! All of this "do it all at once" nonsense has a nauseating BUT "politically correct" term called "multitasking". They use it here at work all the time. They fire everybody, leave the few of us to do our jobs plus those who were let go and expect the same output if we "multitask" correctly. Incredible!
posted on May 14, 2001 01:10:35 PM newI like the bumper sticker I've seen, "HANG UP THE PHONE, AND DRIVE!"
Several countries have legislation making it illegal to drive and use a cellular phone, there are pending legislations in several states here in the US. One candidate in Massachusetts was being interviewed via his cellular phone and the interview was being carried live via a radio station, right in the middle of one of the responses you hear a BANG followed by "I need to end this interview, I've just had an accident." Very funny, it could have been a skit on Saturday Night Live.
posted on May 14, 2001 02:54:19 PM new
Wait! Wait! I've got a great one. We once went to a movie and sat in front of a BLIND GUY, whose wife described every single scene, movement for movement, to him. And she didn't whisper!!! AAK!
posted on May 14, 2001 03:00:53 PM new
Last year the City of Brooklyn Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, became the first munincipality to ban cell phone use while driving. They have signs on all the major roads that have a picture of a cell phone with the big red circle and slash through them and they say "PARK TO TALK." I heard they really enforce it, too.
I was in a dressing room at TJ Maxx a while back and the young woman next to me carried on a VERY loud and profane argument on her cell phone with her boyfriend . I was shocked at the language and the volume; she could be heard throughout most of the store, let alone the dressing room. I suggested to the clerk that a security guard or manager should be doing something but no-one made any attempt to approach her.
People discuss lots of personal things on cell phones and seem oblivious that others are listening, whether they mean to, or not.
posted on May 14, 2001 03:06:04 PM new
I would make it very uncomfortable for the woman by telling her in a movie is not the place to talk on the phone close enough and load enough for her caller to hear it on the other end.
The movie we go to puts a screen up before the main feature telling everyone they are prohibited and people violating this rule will be removed.
posted on May 14, 2001 03:20:18 PM new
Makes you wonder what all of the cell phone addicts did before cell phones? I was in a grocery store once, (there is a commercial about this now, but I really witnessed this), a man was talking on the cell phone describing each grocery item to his wife, for her to chose which one she wanted? Guess he never heard of making the now extinct written list?
I think part of the reason for excessive use of cell phones is the number of minutes afforded with each plan. Competition keeps raising the minutes allotted with each service. People hate not to use them up, so they do, everywhere? I don't know how they find so much to talk about. Why can't they be as passive as us? Ummmm, never mind.
posted on May 14, 2001 09:24:17 PM new
A couple of weekends ago I went with a friend to see a comedy act. It was a sell out show and alot of fun. During the comedian's show a table full of people were carrying on a loud conversation to the point where three times the comedian actually stopped and asked if he was bothering them. They kept it up to the point where finally someone in the audience asked them to leave.
I would have been mortified at the first mention and would have not spoken again for the rest of the show!
posted on May 16, 2001 10:14:31 PM new
A couple of weekends ago I went with a friend to see a comedy act. It was a sell out show and alot of fun. During the comedian's show a table full of people were carrying on a loud conversation to the point where three times the comedian actually stopped and asked if he was bothering them. They kept it up to the point where finally someone in the audience asked them to leave.
I would have been mortified at the first mention and would have not spoken again for the rest of the show!
I guess rudeness has reached new heights.
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The saddest part is they probably thought everyone else was being rude for interupting their conversation!
posted on May 16, 2001 10:21:10 PM new
People like that need their food accidentally dropped on their heads. I would never make a very good waitress. In fact, I was one. Once. I got fired. I was a bartender once too. Got fired there too. I dont have much patience for a$$holes.
posted on May 16, 2001 10:37:13 PM new
I think the problem with the psychologists promoting a "me first" attitude is that they forgot that too many people were going to be too stupid to distinguish between "me first" and "me only."
I consider myself a very selfish person, but I have good manners, and am considerate of the people around me. Why? Partly learned behavior, but mostly because I believe that if everyone behaved this way, the world would be a more pleasant place, and selfishly, I want that kind of world.
I haven't been to a movie in years because of the rudeness and noise, and I avoid "family" style restaurants like the plague because of ill-mannered children.
posted on May 16, 2001 10:42:52 PM new
Sadie, I'm with you about family restaurants and poorly managed children. When my husband and I used to meet for lunch he always asked for non smoking (good ol days). The noise level was always sooo high conversation was impossible.
It finally got to the point where I would ask him, "Smoking or Whining?"
posted on May 16, 2001 10:54:05 PM new
saddie,
My thoughts exactly. Although I am too much of movie buff to stop going to movies. Wish we could all be as selfish as you.
zilvy,
Smoking everytime! Although, I do find it helpful when I see/hear a child screaming or misbehaving. Why? Serves as a reminder to take my BCP.
Hepburn,
Hope you got fired for a good reason, like dumping a drink or food in a rude person's lap!
posted on May 16, 2001 10:57:34 PM new
Oh, I went out with a bang, thats for sure. One obnoxious woman wound up with the soup she ordered over her head. The other was another woman, who kept complaining that her marguerita wasnt salty enough on the rim. I "fixed" it 3 times, and each time, she would guzzle down half and then complain again. Finally, she wore it. I thought it looked nice on her, but the owner was not amused.
posted on May 17, 2001 05:19:40 AM new
I thought I might like to try serving just out of high school in '66. I lasted 3 days until I served a big family table and after the Father of the family left a tip the Grand father hung behind and scooped my tip up.
I confronted him and loadly objected to him stealing my tip. The manager tried to tell me that anyone at the table could pick the money up before they left and that was not stealing. I asked the fellow who left me the tip if he intended it for the Old guy or me?
He just shoved a twenty at me and said you are right but we will never eat here again - and the manager piped up and said well he is fired anyway. I took the twenty and told them that I would be happy never to see any of you cheap son of a b***hs again anyway.
My first and last job as a server.
posted on May 17, 2001 05:58:34 AM new
I had given up seeing movies in theatres until our town got a moviehouse with stadium seating - now I can see King Kong and beyond him.
Once I saw poetic justice handed down to a couple pests in a movie theatre. The couple in front of us came in late, took their time getting seated, proceeded to talk loudly. Finally some guy seated beyond them squeezed down the aisle to leave. Mr. and Ms Manners did nothing to make room for him to scoot past. When he returned a few minutes later with a large soda, they again begrudgingly wiggled in their seats. He tripped over their feet and the soda landed on their laps and legs. They had to leave and we got to see the movie because no one else wanted the wet seat. I should have bought the guy responsible a replacement soda - it is one of my greatest regrets.
[ edited by saabsister on May 18, 2001 05:48 PM ]
posted on May 17, 2001 10:13:15 PM new
I was just reading a blurb in Readers Digest the other day. I wish I had saved it but it went something like this:
A woman was in a public restroom and she was "taking care of business" so to speak. Another woman went into the stall next to her. First woman hears the second woman ask "So how are you?" She answers "fine, thanks." Woman says something else and first woman answers. Finally she hears "do you mind-- I am on the phone here."
