Dear Ignoramus

from JoeUser Forums

Dear Ignormaus,

 

I'm writting this letter in reponse to your outrageous behavious at the movie theater today.  I was going to confront you and ask you to refund the cost of my ticket, but my husband advised me against such an action and made me leave quietly.

Quietly.  That's a word that you are apparently unfamiliar with.  Quietly means WITHOUT NOISE.  No talking, no shrieking, no crying, no chattering....none of that.  Quietly.  Without noise.

I would have liked to have watched the movie I paid $20 to see in peace and quiet, but you managed to spoil my viewing pleasure.   Why the fuck you thought that bringing an under-two-year-old toddler to a 170 minute movie was a good idea is beyond me, but you did it anyway - and you CHOSE to sit next to me.  There were plenty of other seats; there were rows that were totally empty....but you chose to sit your fat ass next to me, and as if that wasn't enough you let your baby run all over, screaming and shrieking. 

It's not as if I dislike children; I have three of my own and I love all of them - but I would never, ever have taken any of mine to an almost 3 hour movie when they were toddlers.  Never.  I wouldn't have done it because I know that they wouldn't have been able to sit still for that amount of time, and I wouldn't have wanted to spoil anyone else's movie experience.  Did you read that last sentence?  I'll repeat it for you, just in case you missed it: I WOULDN'T HAVE WANTED TO SPOIL ANYONE ELSE'S MOVIE EXPERIENCE. 

See, I have consideraton for others.  You obviously are either unfamiliar with that concept  - or you're just fucking ignorant and don't give a fuck about anyone else.  I believe that the latter is more likely than the former, and I also believe that were I to confront you about your lack of consideration, you'd immediately revert to playing the good ol' standby of your ilk: the skin color card.  This isn't about skin color, though.  This is about ignornance.  Ignorance comes in many sizes and shapes and forms - yours just happens to be 300lbs and black. 

I don't know if anyone has ever told you this before, but you're a fucking ignoramus.  A full-on, dumb-assed fucking ignorant bitch, and the sad thing is that your children are seeing your behaviour and thinking that it's ok to be that way; that it's ok to not give a fuck about anyone else.

And we wonder why our society is going down the drain.

I hope that you enjoyed the movie.  I hope that you had a good fucking time.  I also hope that one day someone does to you exactly what you did to me, and I hope that you get as pissed off about it as I am about your behaviour.  I can only hope that I have the good fortune to be there to see it when it happens.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

  

 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
You sound totally, absolutely, completely and utterly pissed off, I bet her ears are burning big time!

Did you at least get a refund from the cinema? I do not go to cinemas any more for the very reasons you have written about - inconsiderate people making a racket.

The other reason is people who put their feet up on the back of your chair - also a bugbear.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

wow "d"...

Yanno sumpin? Yer shoulda got yer dough back, I woulda.

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
, I take Izzy to movies (Happy Feet, Night at the Museum, Ghost Rider, Shrek 3). But those (except GR) are kiddie movies so people should expect some kids there. I also do afternoons for that reason. And I *immediately* leave if she starts getting the slightest bit wiggly or agitated.

Those are my excuses, .

Nice scathing rant, BTW. That's the dharma I love.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Ouch.  Definitely ouch.

Been there, and had similar experiences that I've ranted about some in the past (such as the absolutely ignorant lady that sat rattling a bag of popcorn trying to get every last stinkin' kernel covered with butter...  Bad enough that she and her date/escort/husband/friend and the other two persons with them came into the theatre late and incredibly *rude* about demanding that some people sitting in the same extra leg-space aisle row mid-way up the theatre move to make room for them when 98% of the rest of the theatre was empty, but adding the popcorn rattle on top of it had me thinking of horrible things that should happen to the whole group, starting with rattle lady!!!)

I despise rude and obnoxious people, and horribly selfish people that come to movies.

Why do they pay good money to come to the theatre just to 'forget' to turn off their cell phone, or at least forget to *silence* the damn thing?  Why do they think the rest of the place has to hear their conversation when they take a friggin' call on the darned thing and then go on to gossip about their day or about how you wouldn't believe what so-and-so did to whichahuzzit...  They're in the middle of the damned movie and they do such stupid stuff and don't bother to walk out into the lobby where they'd disturb no one.

People with kids catch a bit of a break from me because I'm a parent also, but not much of one (the break that is, not that I'm saying I'm not much of a parent).  I'm sorry but if you are incapable of paying for a babysitter, then you shouldn't be at the movies unless you taking the child to an kiddie movie where everyone else is in the same situation.  Taking a child to a long movie and expecting the child to sit still, or at least to stay quiet is stupid.

It makes me long for the other place I wrote an article about some time back: drive-in movies.  I was reminded of those places again when a friend who lives North of the Border sent me a note saying she and her husband went to one the other day and caught the triple feature there.  In her case she and her husband are without children, but they have a little Chihuahua that is like a child to them.  They go to the drive-in because they can take the Chihuahua and let it go for a long walk around the place before the movie starts, and they can walk around with as necessary in between movies if necessary.  They aren't disturbing anyone that way and yet they can enjoy the movies without ruining things for anyone else.

Where people's sense of manners has gone I'll never know.  Where their common sense went, don't know that either.

But people do rude stuff way too often, and they most certainly don't seem to care about others around them.

Even though you didn't get a refund from the culprit, I would most certainly have gone to the theatre management and gotten some compensation from them.  And in my case, I probably would have been a bit rude about requesting the individual to *move* or at a minimum I would have seen an usher and requested them to have that individual move.  If they refused and/or if the usher did nothing I'd have had the manager refunding my ticket price for sure.

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
LOL, I also had my cell phone go off during the last movie.

IN MY DEFENSE, I leave it on because my husband is in Iraq and he gets only a small window of time to call and invests a lot of that time standing in line waiting for the phone.

It's either never leave the house, or keep my phone on all the time.

I don't do vibrate since I'm afraid I won't hear/notice.

I immediately opened my phone so it would stop ringing, left the theater and only spoke once I was in the common area. I don't think that was so terrible.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's why I love DVDs. A person is decent, but people suck moose nipples.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

The other reason is people who put their feet up on the back of your chair

Yeah, that pisses me off too. 

Yer shoulda got yer dough back,

If it would have been up to me, we would have.  Dave, however, decided that we should leave it alone and just go home.

I take Izzy to movies (Happy Feet, Night at the Museum, Ghost Rider, Shrek 3). But those (except GR) are kiddie movies so people should expect some kids there. I also do afternoons for that reason. And I *immediately* leave if she starts getting the slightest bit wiggly or agitated.

It's not that I mind people bringing their kids to the movies so much, Tex.  My beef is with people who don't take advantage of rows and rows of empty seats and decide to sit next to people - and then don't take their kids out of the theater when they start fussing.  This little kid was standing up on the seats, rcrawling around under other people's feet and generally being a two year old.  What did his mom do?  Sat there on her fat fucking arse and stuffed her face with poporn, doing nothing to take care of her kid's bad behaviour.  the only time she did anything with him was when he fell between the seats and got hurt.  It was only then that she picked him up.

I detest people like that.

That's why they've banned me from going to theaters

Aw crap!  Now I have to think of something else to do on our first date.....

Where people's sense of manners has gone I'll never know. Where their common sense went, don't know that either.

I honestly believe that some people don't have an ounce of either.  How could they when they behave the way they do?  And, if they're behaving like that in public, how are they behaving behind closed doors!


I immediately opened my phone so it would stop ringing, left the theater and only spoke once I was in the common area. I don't think that was so terrible

It wasn't.  you were courteous and polite enough to leave the theater to have a conversation.  Nothing wrong with that.

A person is decent, but people suck moose nipples.

Bingo.

 

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

TW:  I'd go exactly with Dharma's response about your use of the phone.  You did your best to be unobtrusive to others.   My problem is the (borrowing Dharma's word) Ignoramus (or is it Ignorami?) that don't have an ounce of decency and can't be bothered to be disconnected from others for the few hours that they'd be sitting in movie house.

I don't need to know their business, nor does anyone else in the theatre, and yet they'll sit there talking away as if they aren't bothering a soul around them.  10 minutes later I'm not sure which dialogue I heard more of, the one on the screen, or the one on the phone.  Blech!