To Find this Woman in the Cinema Rude

[LessMissAbs]

Me and my friend were watching a film in the cinema tonight. She doesn't wear a watch and must have been checking her phone for the time - its a habit of hers to do this, or to ask people the time. I was sitting next to her and I didn't notice it.

There was an empty seat to her other side between her and a woman. The woman suddenly boomed out in the middle of the film, "If you want to play your phone, you can go outside and do it instead of in here".

It was mortifying, and she interrupted the film for me. I was really embarrassed for my friend, but we didn't say anything.

At the end of the film, as we were standing up to leave, I said to the woman "I don't really care if you were disturbed by a light during the film or not, I don't want to have to the film interrupted by your booming voice". She then started arguing back (she said something like "Oh you'd like to be a cheeky one, wouldn't you, and some other stuff) but we turned our backs towards her and her husband so that she was talking to ourselves, put on our coats and left.

Kind of ruined the film for both of us. Normally I find going to the cinema relaxing!

Yes theone exactly that. It wouldn't have been possible.

Sprkly

That's tough for you. I think if i complained to you about your phone annoying me (i have done this before) and you explained, then I'd understand. Maybe kkep it down in your lap so it isn't so distracting.

But that isn't the situation in the OP

Blimey

As it is I am with at least one of my dc 99% of the time because he is home educated and totally unable to manage in a school environment.

I thought you might say that sparkly.

Well I am glad I didn't disappoint you then sparkling .

sparklysilversequins - why should other people stay at home to watch movies because they get annoyed at people like you who have to check their phones during a movie irrespective of what your circumstances might be.

You are told to turn your phone off and many people are willing to put it on vibrate as a compromise but no you choose to go ahead and ruin movies for other people by constantly checking your phone therefore if you are going to see a movie you should be willing to compromise knowing you are going into a social situation where the use of phones is not acceptable behaviour.

If your situation is such that you cannot never check your phone than I am sorry to say that you should just not go to the cinema or go a few weeks after the movie has opened when there are less likely to many lots of people in the cinema.

Actually, the two times I've mentioned it t people they have been unaware it was annoying and turned it off straight away. I shouldn't really have to ask, but some people just carry on their home behaviour in the putside world.

I wonder if Brian had asked very sweetly , whether the Op would be so upset.

I will continue to go and you will just have to live with it because my situation is such that I cannot do anything else.

I wonder what all the phone checkers did pre mobile phones.

I am going to carry on never going to the cinema. Mainly because it is a huge rip off, and after reading this thread the worst place to go ever.
I will stick with Sky Box Office and DVDs.

Checked our pagers Ledkr (showing my age there!)

What I meant OP was to get the entire thread deleted not any one of your posts in particular they are all much of a muchness

Sparklydont be so pathetic. If you can't leave your children alone for a couple of hours sn or not, without checking your phone, then no, you shouldn't go out.
HTH

I am totally disgusted by your attitude whistleblower so I won't be addressing your comments again.

My locals aren't bad at all - London.

Barbican cinema is lovely -really comfy, only icecream to eat.

I still don't understand why Sequins can't put her phone on silent and vibrate and put it in her pocket - then only check it if it vibrates.

i think that there should be/is an exception for most rules and in the case of using phones in the cinema a parent with a child with serious needs should be one of them. i think most people generally don't have a good excuse for using one in there however. a few years ago i casually created a post about how it pisses me off when people dump their kids in trollys in supermarkets. i got bereated about how people with sn children often need to. fair enough, i agree but again, most people don't have a good excuse for doing this...

Why not have your phone on vibrate Sparkly?

If it vibrates then go out to check it. If it doesn't then there's no need to check it is there?

"It reminds me of a mob cheering when a 15th century political activist was hung, drawn and quartered."

Well, not all of them cheered, presumably. Some of them were probably checking the time on their phones.

I can and do but I still check it because I am scared I will miss it. I have before. Also the signal is often dodgy so a call might not come through long enough for it to vibrate. I am discreet and I have never once had a complaint about it. I generally sit away from others anyway in case I have to leave and I live in London where cinemas don't tend to get so busy and choose early showings when not many people are around.

jesus

I think sparkly has explained why and if that is what she has to do, if anyone gets annoyed she will explain to them?

Out of interest do any of you who are saying I shouldn't go have dc with autism or any real experience of it?