Teenager at cinema

Just be aware that when your phone does go off, everyone in that screen thinks you are a twat.

Why are you sitting with it face up? Stick it in a bag or a pocket and put it on vibrate, ffs.

Mumsnet isn't real life 😂

In real life, everyone quickly glances at their phone in the cinema - to check the time for example. Fair enough someone having their phone out and writing a text with the screen blaring but a quick glance at it, nobody would care.

I go to the cinema when I'm on call 🤷🏻‍♀️ phone on silent but face up on my lap so I can see it light up if it does ring. It would take me less than 10 seconds to get out of the screen to answer the call in the foyer. I do always sit in the back row though so nobody behind me to "distract"

I don't know what cinemas people are going to that are heaving and you'd have to climb over others to get out. There's never more than 5 other people in my local.

I think under the circumstances I would have sat at the back towards the end of the row or at the end so I could check the phone without annoying anyone and also in order to make a quick exit to take the call if it came.

I think she sounds like a cheeky little madam and if I was her Dad I would have been absolutely mortified.

Good on her 😂

The brightness of phone screens is mega distracting - even if it's just a quick check! They literally tell you to put and keep your phones away.

Her age is pretty irrelevant imo, the rules are the rules for adults or children.

Your reasons are in fact excuses. Own it - she was right.

Lovely teenager, good to read.

Would someone have died if you had let them know you would be unable to take a call for a couple of hours beforehand? I assume not.

Or maybe the Dad had the foresight to realize that it would become his problem, if his Daughter had chosen to chastise the wrong person.

Honestly OP just stop. It doesn’t matter, none of these excuses do. You were in the wrong, move on, good for her!

Why do you think moving seats annoyed her? And how would she have known you were going to use your phone?

Well done that girl! There is hope for the youth of today after all.

I also wear hearing aids controlled by my phone. If I have a problem with them in the cinema/ theatre I go to the loo or foyer and sort it. I don't make my problem the problem of everyone around me.

you were 100% wrong. As was the girls dad. She was absolutely right to do what she did. If more people called out cheeky fuckers like you perhaps they would learn to be more considerate and less self centred.

Yabu. So happy to hear about a girl having the confidence to stand up for herself.

@Screamingabdabz I can hear people's phones vibrate. When mine rings, people ask "how can you even hear that" but I think it's loud! 😂

I also hate bags rustling in the cinema etc

Hence, I rarely go, or go at weird times.

I’ve had many a cinema trip ruined by people taking out their phones. She wasn’t to know it was a quick check, you could have been at it for the rest of the film. A bright light is very distracting in a dark cinema.

You knew it was wrong, you did it anyway, you got told off. The teenager is not the CF in this situation.

Well no I don't think a quick glance once is worth saying something honestly.

I could understand if it was more than that

You must be Barry Allen if you think you could have taken the entirety of the call outside.

You would have answered it, stood up, started making your way along the seat row in front of others, then down the stairs, possibly stumbling a bit in the dark as it's hard to see the steps during a movie, walked across another line of people, speaking all the way and then continued your call. in other words, completely disturbed, depending upon your actual seat position, somewhere around a quarter to half the entire audience who had paid to go and see the movie.

Good on her! I got asked to turn my phone off once in the cinema (I had it on in my lap as my other child at home was texting me) as the light was annoying someone else a few rows behind me. I think it's a fair thing to ask.

I agree. And I’m the type to get twitchy if I see people do it for too long or too frequently, but I’d give them a few seconds at least before saying something or wait I tilt they did it more than once.

And no matter what her age you shouldn’t really be tapping anyone you don’t know on the shoulder, if it’s not some kind of emergency.

Also her piping up and talking is also disruptive to others. If she’d just waited a few seconds the moment would’ve passed, the phone would have went back in and no words needed to be spoken.

It was muted. The buzzes were the phone ringing but I’d muted it so it was quietly vibrating in my bag - no one else would’ve heard it. It was my DH calling me to get to the hospital quick. I didn’t know until I read the texts after the film.

Precocious. I’d be cross if my DD did this. Different if you were on it for ages.

Rustling packets are acceptable in cinemas. Annoying but acceptable. Bright lights from phones are not

Good on her. People checking phones in cinemas are dicks.