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Flat-out bad parenting at the movies

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by greenlantern, Mar 7, 2009.

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  1. Write-brained

    Write-brained Guest

    Maybe they'll watch our kids for us while we go to the movies.
     
    Write-brained, Mar 8, 2009
    #49
  2. CentralIllinoisan

    CentralIllinoisan Active Member

    Actually, I prefer to huddle my kids up around the computer and read smartass comments from contrarian blowhards.
     
    CentralIllinoisan, Mar 8, 2009
    #50
  3. Del_B_Vista

    Del_B_Vista Active Member

    This isn't a parenting issue (well, someone's mamma messed up with them, but they were adults), but I went to see "Good Night, and Good Luck" at a theater in Charlotte. It was December 2005, my first time away from the Katrina dead zone here, so I was probably a little on edge, but these guys were tools. Went to the multiplex at whatever that big Concord Mills mall is and there was me in the back of the theater and these three or four guys who walked in during the opening. It was pretty obvious they were drunk. They treated the theater like their living room, saying what had to be every thought that popped into their vacuous minds. At least twice, I asked politely from the back of the theater to please be quiet, that I was trying to enjoy the movie. They quiet briefly, the resume. When the movie ended, I started walking to the front and asked them why they hell they kept talking during the movie. They said it was a stupid movie. I asked why they didn't just leave, that I was trying to enjoy the damn movie. They left the theater about 3 inches tall.

    Yeah, I know, shoulda gotten the manager early, but I hate leaving the theater during a movie. Hate it.
     
    Del_B_Vista, Mar 8, 2009
    #51
  4. Write-brained

    Write-brained Guest

    Did your kid just type that? Tell him to quit his whining.
     
    Write-brained, Mar 8, 2009
    #52
  5. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I felt like shit when I took my 3-year-old daughter to see "Bolt" for her first trip to the movies. The opening sequences had some violent stuff (cartoons, but violent), then when the girl and dog appeared dead in the last few minutes, my kid bawled like there was no tomorrow.

    But what are you supposed to do? Even the animated flicks nowadays are edgy. I don't see how any little kid can go to the movies anymore.
     
    playthrough, Mar 8, 2009
    #53
  6. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    wow, chief, you must work from home.
     
    Tom Petty, Mar 8, 2009
    #54
  7. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    his kids were on his lap.
     
    Tom Petty, Mar 8, 2009
    #55
  8. CentralIllinoisan

    CentralIllinoisan Active Member

    wow, buddy, that comment might amuse me if written by just about anyone other than you; it being drenched in hipocrisy and all.
     
    CentralIllinoisan, Mar 8, 2009
    #56
  9. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    How long do you go between cutting your toenails?
     
    mike311gd, Mar 8, 2009
    #57
  10. CentralIllinoisan

    CentralIllinoisan Active Member

    Depends how long between trips to the theater. I always trim the piggies at the cinema.
     
    CentralIllinoisan, Mar 8, 2009
    #58
  11. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    I don't see any other place as an option.
     
    mike311gd, Mar 8, 2009
    #59
  12. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    you're really taking a higher road here than you should, chief. you haven't made a single amusing or insightful post on this board since i've been a member.

    in fact, i often wonder why you bother getting out of bed in the morning.
     
    Tom Petty, Mar 8, 2009
    #60
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