To expect someone to live without their mobile phone for 50 minutes at the Theatre?

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Okay so it was a kids play - but purlease it was 50 minutes - she could have coped without 3 text messages for that long surely?

At least she could have put the damn thing on vibrate.

You should have taken it off her and thrown it across the room

This really annoys me, I took the kids to the cinema once and 5 minutes into the film a lady in the row behind got a text, I thought maybe she had forgot to turn her phone off, but then she received another one a couple of minutes later, in the end I asked her to turn her phone off or put it on to silent as after paying to get into the cinema I'd rather listen to the film and not her mobile, she then said 'I don't see what the problem is, it's only a cartoon anyway', she did turn it off though.

This really annoys me, I took the kids to the cinema once and 5 minutes into the film a lady in the row behind got a text, I thought maybe she had forgot to turn her phone off, but then she received another one a couple of minutes later, in the end I asked her to turn her phone off or put it on to silent as after paying to get into the cinema I'd rather listen to the film and not her mobile, she then said 'I don't see what the problem is, it's only a cartoon anyway', she did turn it off though.

Presumably these people wouldn't do this at a "grown up" event. What's the point in taking your children to these things and then spending the whole time demonstrating that you think it's pointless.

I hate people who do this.
I admit if I am out without my children then I never turn my phone off, but I put it on silent, in case of any emergency.
I went to see Hannibal rising with a friend, and the couple a few seats away just would not shut up, (woman twittering on at the bloke) for the first 10 minuets of the film, until my friend a 6 foot 7in no nonsense yorkshire man told them to shut it