Really what is the deal?

You guilty ones (you know who you are), what is the pleasure in bringing little babies to the movies?
Do you hope they'll sleep through it, or do you just not care about others around you, that paid $16 plus more on snacks, to listen to your kid squirm and cry and/or talk (if they're old enough) through the entire show. Not to mention if you have the intelligence to take the baby out of the theatre until he stops crying, think of the movie you miss.........

I'm not talking abouit Finding Nemo or Toy Story, I'm talking about movies catering to adult viewers......... what's your story people??????????

 

Amen...

 

dlf:

I am with you there. That is the MOST inconsiderate, selfish thing someone can do is bring their “young” child who has yet to be taught to behave properly in public. That means to keep their little mouths shut when in a theater that is showing a movie for adults. I see it in restaurants and though it kind of sucks I accept it, same with while flying.

However what I do not like and think is just as inconsiderate and selfish is when they let their little brats run around in the restaurant or plane. It tells me the parents are ignorant and have absolutely NO idea on how to properly raise children nor do they have the skills to teach their children how to behave properly and to have manners…

 

aaahhh lets talk ear damage...after Terminator 3 my ears had'nt rung like that since Led Zepplin

 

This is one that never ceases to amaze me.
I go through the trouble of finding a sitter for
my two-year old and get to the movies only
to find the entire row in front of me is filled
with keyhole parents who dragged their little
"precious" anklebiters to the movie.

 

Right on, somebody said it!
I remember making a similar comment in a post just like this, and some holier than thou parent came on and said
"Hey it's all part of the learning process, too bad for you"
If I ever wanted to reach through my computer and smack someone, that was the time.

You know, I'm sick and tired of listening to your whiney, snivelling little brats shreiking at the top of their lungs during my over-priced movie, and afterwards while I'm enjoying my over-priced steak, get with it you people (you know who you are)
Yes, little Johny is cute as a bugs ear, but show some consideration!

You know, when I was a little bastard of a kid, if I didnt behave, my dad would only have to give me the look, and I would immediatly shut up. (because I knew what was coming next outside in the parking lot)

Some people today are so lax and irresponsible, they let 'little johnny' do anything he wants because they don't have a clue on how to be a parent.
and you know what happens next? Little Johnny grows up to be an inconsiderate, manipulative ahole, because his behaviour has been rewarded throughout his childhood.

dif, why did you have to go and write this post?? Now my blood pressure is up, and i'm all edgy!

Habibi

 

This is also especially true in stores. Since I work at Walmart, I see alot of this. Some parents just let their kids run wild through the stores running into people or knocking things over. Then they start going down the isles and pulling things off the shelf and throwing them everywhere. Then when the parent finds them, they usually yell at them or smack them or something right in the store. And when they don't get their way, they just start crying real loud and make a scene until the parent finally buys them what they want. Well no wonder they are so mean nowadays. They can get whatever they want just by crying a little bit. I have even seen kids that are probably at least 10 or so doing this. Like Habibi said, most parents don't have a clue how to actually be parents.

 

I think parents like that should be shot.
Then kill the little brats.

But that's just me.

 

I agree!!
My daughter (9) is at some wierd stage where she runs around in the store. But, she is running around close to me, because she knows that of she gets out of my sight (and that includes 'hiding') I will whoop her on the spot. Saftey is number 1 over what another parent may think, and I will whoop children in my care who breach saftey rules. If I know I will be preocupied with shopping, I don't take her (or other children) with me. I also do not take her to R rated movies, or expensive restraunts - EVER. I teach her (or other children in my care) to behave in cheap restraunts and at home the same way one would behave in an expensive restraunt: elbows tucked in, chew with mouth closed, no talking with food in mouth, no yelling, getting out of your seat, turning around to stare at others, ect. So that hopefully when an occasion to go to an expensive restraunt should occur, or they become old enough to go to an R rated movie, they know how to act.
Even though as I said she has a ways to go towards acceptable behavior, when I see how other kids are behaving around us, she looks like finishing school graduate in compareson! Thanks to all the ignorant parents for making my job harder! "Mommy how come that kid gets to run up and down the isles?"

Now how about adults that blow their nose at the movies or in restraunts? What the hell is up with that? Every time I go out, some bozo blows his nose. It is always a guy, and one with a pecticularly LOUD blow. HONK, HONK! Then he puts the presumably snot filled hanky in his pocket. eeeeeeeeeeck.

 

I agree completely with the babies at the movies business. Keep them home or get a sitter. Teen to adult oriented movies are not a learning experience for anyone under teens or adult years. Duh, that's what the rating guide is for!@!
And while we're here, cell phones in the theatre. My boys and I sat next to a woman with 4 kids and a cell phone. I thought the kids would be trouble, oh no was I wrong. The woman's cell rang about 5 minutes into the movie and she had the nerve to carry on a conversation right next to me. I boiled, but let it go. About 20 minutes later it rang again. She answered and began a conversation. It was a flip phone, so I calmly reached over and flipped it shut. She never said a word, just stared at me the rest of the movie. On the way out she said something in my general direction about rude people. I turned with a big smile and agreed with her and told her they shouldn't be allowed out in public. She was furious as I walked away.

 

These are classic stories. I admit, the one response about the ankle biters was a little extreme!!

When I posted the topic I was ready for backlash by the guilty parents, and how they have a right to a life, and responses like that.......

The kids running around restaurants and turning and staring were things I hadn't even thought about, but do bug the crap out of me. That, and the 3 year ols and the piercing, mantra throughout the dinner, "Momma....... Momma....... Momma........ Mom............... Mom............. MOM.............. Ma.............. Ma..........
MOMMA..............MA..............MOMMA.......... .....MOMMA"

More than once, I have turned to the table and said, " Excuse me, would you please answer your kid so he would stop yelling"

Of course there is usually a response with a look like I'M a martian or something..........

DLF

 

Great stories!

Do what I do and start yelling at these people.

Sadly the only time I encounter way to you kids in movies are the freaking late showing.

I don't care who you are, no baby should be at a 10:30 showing of Blair Witch crap or 12am showing of Not Fast and Furious about it 2 (friends birthday and that was his wish). And those are what I remember.


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While where at, how about stupid managers at theaters?

Last night I went to see Pirates with a group friends. As with typical theaters around here, there entrances in the front and back, with the theater hallways being on the left and right.

Someones bright idea last night was have the ticket ripper station at the front of the building where the ticket cashiers are. So theoretically anyone who goes in the rear entrance can walk into any movie they want.

Of course we don't know this, so I'm just wandering around in the middle part waiting for my friends to get the tickets. Well I guess I was the unlucky who walked by the ticket ripper and then all hell broke loose.

For some reason she couldn't grasp the concept that if you came in through the rear doors you could go anywhere, and the place her superiors had her standing was plain stupid. Everyone around me understood, but not the ticket ripper
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So inconclusion we pay ridiculous prices to put up with inconsiderate people and workers with no clue.

 

I will go see S.W.A.T in a couple of hours. I better not hear any kids!

 

That is why you buy the peanut M&M’s. You chuck them bad boys and when it hits the kid in the head it gives him something to REALLY cry about. It also is a great way to shut them up because as they are crying about being binged in the head they will search the sticky floor for the M&M, and then eat it, thus shutting them up. Just bring a few bags of the M&M’s and enjoy your movie…

Solutions for little problems

 

Or wait a couple of months and buy the DVD so you can watch it in peace, fall asleep, ask people here how the movie ends, and get all kinds of smart alec answers.