New Law: Children Under 12 Not Allowed in Movie Theaters

[ZTAngel]

I just wanted to tell everyone about my awful movie theater experience last night.

I went to see "Jersey Girl" with my friend and roommate. It was a 9:30 showing so you'd expect the majority of the audience to be older. There were a lot of kids in there. No big deal as long as they behaved themselves. The theater was PACKED. We ended up having to sit right behind the front row.

A group of middle school age kids sat in the row in front of us. For the whole beginning of the movie, they kept standing up and sitting down and talking. One of the kids started playing a game on his cell phone. I just prayed that they would stop.

All the sudden, from the other side of the theater, a toddler let a big, "WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The whole theater turned over to see what was happening. The mother just sat there as the kid cried his eyes out. Take the crying kid out of the theater!!!

Finally, the kid calmed down but he started talking really loud. I just ignored it but other movie patrons started leaving the theater. The kids in front of me were throwing popcorn at this point.

Once again, the toddler starts screaming his head off. Everyone in the theater looks at the mom who just sat there. My friend screamed across the theater, "Excuse me, ma'am. Can you take your kid outside?" That's when one of the deliquents in front of us turned around to her and said, "That's my little brother. What the hell is your problem? He's a baby!" Actually, the kid was about 2 or 3...certainly not a baby. My friend said to the kid, "He shouldn't be here unless he can behave" to which the kid just kept saying, "What's your problem?" repeatedly as his other delinquent friend said, "It's a free country!"

The delinquent then gets up and grabs the toddler from his mother and brings him to the front row with him. The toddler throws popcorn everywhere, starts crawling on the floor, and was screaming his head off. Several more people got up and left. The delinquents kept getting up and bringing the kid back to their mother, then would get up again and bring him to the front row, and then repeat the cycle all over again.

My roommate got annoyed. She told me that she was going to ask management if we left if we could get a refund. The delinquents saw her walk out and immediately started pushing the popcorn they threw under their seat to "hide the evidence". My roomie came back and said that management would refund us if we left. As we were walking out, one of the delinquents turned around and said, "Bye Bitches!" At 12 or 13 years old, I would NEVER have said that to people who were older than me!!!! What the hell is wrong with kids today? My roommate looked at them and said, "Bye assholes." One of the delinquents cursed, "F&cking bitch" to which I laughed and said, "Little 12 year olds." The kid got up and followed us out of theater!!! Are you kidding me?

When I got out of the theater, I saw a bunch of SAEs that I'm friends with and walked over to them. The kid saw them and immediately ran back into the theater. I guess he figured that he didn't want to get in our faces when we were friends with 3 guys that were about "6'1" and 200 pounds.

While we were at customer service getting our refund, there must've been 10 other people from our theater standing there also trying to get a refund. Finally, the ushers went over to theater to go say something to the delinquents. I'm not sure if they got thrown out but I doubt it.

What the hell is wrong with parents? Get a babysitter! If you absolutely must bring your kid with you to the theater, take them out as soon as they start crying. People paid $8.50 to see the movie and they don't want to be distracted by your kids screams. I'll never understand it just because my parents would've dragged me out of the theater if I started acting like that. In fact, they would never have brought me to a 9:30 movie....it was past my bedtime.

I really think there should be a law that prohibits anyone under the age of 12 to be in a movie theater!