Post by Takiyah on Jun 19, 2006 22:10:15 GMT -5
Oh Oh I like doing this!
Ok I work at a theater right? And we all know that Cars came out on the 9th. Ok, so that opening day, Friday, our second showing of the day was at like .. I dunno, 12:50pm in our biggest theater that seats nearly 300 people right? Ok, so I'm working upstairs in projections and what not and 12:50 rolls around and so I start the movie. Hooray, I move on to deal with the next showing of whatever movie started after that. Like 10 minutes later I hear one of the ushers on the walkie (we have walkie talkies to communicate with one another since everyone's spread out in different areas of the theater) and the conversation goes like this
Usher: I need a manager. I have a customer who's .... yelling at me.
Manager #1: I'm on my way
(a few minutes pass)
Manager #1: I need another manager, this customer is /screaming/ at me.
Manager #2: I'm coming.
(a few more minutes)
Manager #2 speaking to Manager #1 on the walkie: Call the cops..right now.
And so at this point I'm curious as hell so I go downstairs to investigate and this is what I see. A guy who's probably like .. 50 something years old out in the lobby screaming his head off to our manager, two police guys trying to calm him down, and my manager talking to him like he's a complete idiot. Apparently the guy came to the movies with his family (four kids and three adults) to see Cars. Fine. It's a great movie. But he comes to the movie late (the movie had already started, past the trailers and the animated short..), the theater is packed with kids and adults as we sold out, and he's pissed because the usher couldn't find him seven seats together. The best the poor usher could do was ask some people to move so that there were four seats together in one row, two seats together a row below that, and one random seat. But apparently that wasn't good enough so the guy threw a huge fit.
It's sad how often these things happen. You'd think people go to the theater to relax and have fun, not throw tantrums when they show up 20 minutes late to a sold out theater and can't find 7 seats together and act like it's somehow /our/ fault. Ha!
Ok I work at a theater right? And we all know that Cars came out on the 9th. Ok, so that opening day, Friday, our second showing of the day was at like .. I dunno, 12:50pm in our biggest theater that seats nearly 300 people right? Ok, so I'm working upstairs in projections and what not and 12:50 rolls around and so I start the movie. Hooray, I move on to deal with the next showing of whatever movie started after that. Like 10 minutes later I hear one of the ushers on the walkie (we have walkie talkies to communicate with one another since everyone's spread out in different areas of the theater) and the conversation goes like this
Usher: I need a manager. I have a customer who's .... yelling at me.
Manager #1: I'm on my way
(a few minutes pass)
Manager #1: I need another manager, this customer is /screaming/ at me.
Manager #2: I'm coming.
(a few more minutes)
Manager #2 speaking to Manager #1 on the walkie: Call the cops..right now.
And so at this point I'm curious as hell so I go downstairs to investigate and this is what I see. A guy who's probably like .. 50 something years old out in the lobby screaming his head off to our manager, two police guys trying to calm him down, and my manager talking to him like he's a complete idiot. Apparently the guy came to the movies with his family (four kids and three adults) to see Cars. Fine. It's a great movie. But he comes to the movie late (the movie had already started, past the trailers and the animated short..), the theater is packed with kids and adults as we sold out, and he's pissed because the usher couldn't find him seven seats together. The best the poor usher could do was ask some people to move so that there were four seats together in one row, two seats together a row below that, and one random seat. But apparently that wasn't good enough so the guy threw a huge fit.
It's sad how often these things happen. You'd think people go to the theater to relax and have fun, not throw tantrums when they show up 20 minutes late to a sold out theater and can't find 7 seats together and act like it's somehow /our/ fault. Ha!