Teenager at cinema

OP starts AIBU thread....
Accuses people of posting after only eight pages (shock horror) of "still banging on" 😂
This is definitely the most bonkers AIBU a I've seen and there's been a few 😁
The biggest YABVU in the history of unreasonableness in so many ways

Good for her - the only reason you feel put out is because a child has called you out on something. If you were expecting a phonecall, going to the cinema was a daft idea because they’re pretty clear about not using your phone.

Good grief, lighten up! You and the OP both come across as high maintenance, tiresome people who can't bear to be told that they're in the wrong. Perhaps OP will realise now that if you do something annoying and someone tells you to knock it off, the thing to do is to accept it with good grace, not start a thread whining about it and then arguing with people who say that the girl did nothing rude.

Oh the number of times I've been tempted to take a bag of beanbags or the like and throw them at people who light up the place with their phones!

@takealettermsjones 😂

Oh, I wouldn't dream of it. I don't crunch. I just lick the salt off and then put the damp kernels on the floor next to my vuvuzela and my big foam finger. The ushers did ask me not to but they're seventeen, so it doesn't count. 😊😆

I hope you're not going to crunch that too loudly 😡
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Maybe could ping it off the head of people who check their phone in the cinema.
Now that'd be ruder than asking someone to put it away lol 😁

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Good old kicking 🙄😂
Geez
Told YABU, still won't have any of it (saying OK but still insisting the person was cheeky for telling her to put her phone away isn't really accepting YABU) and then harrumphs off.
Little wonder posters are getting a bit ffs and 🙄

You can think that if it makes you happy. Seems likely that you would find it hard to understand another human being just standing up for someone else.

The sheer irony of you telling me to ‘give it a rest’ too! OP’s had a good old kicking, much of it from you, and when she conceded defeat you pop up again to gloat! So unpleasant.

I imagine you’ll come back with some nonsense (which I won’t read) about how it’s AIBU and people should expect to be told they’re idiots. But you might just stop and think before you rub your hands in glee at the next pecking party. Who knows?

Give it a rest. Are you a sockpuppet for the OP? I'm beginning to think so!

Says the poster who denies enjoying a pile on 🙄

Tbh loud rustling of packets, kicking the backs of seats and talking through the film are worse than checking phones.

That teenager was perfectly within her rights. Do not use your phone in a cinema. It's pretty simple.

Also why post on aibu if you're unwilling to listen to people telling you that you are being unreasonable.

Well done that teenager. You know you were wrong, unless you’re one of those important types who thinks rules are for other people

Flounced, have you? Well, better luck next time.

It baffles me how the human race survives.

Your post isn't 100% clear, but I guess you mean that you knew it was coming at some point during the film but not exactly when. I don't necessarily think you should miss the film then, but how were you expecting to receive the call? Was it on vibrate? If so, you wouldn't need to check it, and could just leave when it vibrated. If not, you wouldn't know anyway.

All not completely relevant to the fact that she was within her rights, however annoying it was to you.

So had you all moved so now you were in front of them?
With loads of empty seats?

Ok, it wasn't a scheduled call as in it had a time, but you were clearly expecting one to have to check it in case you'd missed it.
What about the rest of the post, what has the fact you're a grown adult FFS got to do with anything?
Don't the rules still apply?

To be fair OP, you haven't really worded a precise AIBU, so there are different interpretations of what you are asking. Since the beginning of the thread, you have accepted that you broke the rules, and that she was within her rights, but then you keep having a go at her, and adding bits to the story.

You lost me when you said that you are a 'grown adult FFS'. Does that mean the rules don't apply to you? In the cinema it applies to all phones, so good for her. You can be sure that if she had a quick glance at her phone in school she would receive more than a tap on the shoulder. So you were expecting an important call, why didn't you just leave a few minutes before the scheduled call without checking the phone?

She isn't cheeky or wrong just because she is younger than you.

Op posted in the busiest board. This thread is only 7 pages long. This is quite a short thread for one that has been going for this length of time. It's hardly a pile-on, and it's not full of personal attacks. It's full of people giving their opinion - which is what op knowingly came on to the busiest board to ask.

Your interpretation of the question doesn't change my answer. The age of a person pointing out that someone is doing the wrong thing doesn't matter. Would the op have posted if the person was also an adult? I suspect not.

If the one thing that makes op think the other person was being unreasonable is their age, then that surely just cements the idea that the person wasn't wrong. Op just didn't like being told what to do by someone much younger.