Posted on 12/19/2017 9:57:12 AM PST by nickcarraway
I learned my lesson in 1964 at the tender, naive age of 13. I was the suburban white bread guy going to the matinee with a friend in downtown Ithaca, NY. The darker pigmented girls in front of us were carrying on non-stop, loud as can be, as they are wont to do. I asked them several times to be quiet and finally got the manager to ask them to knock it off. Big mistake. On the way out of the theater, I got a hand on my shoulder, was wheeled around, and sucker punched by her brother. That was my first of several similar encounters with such "members of society. I found it's a lot easier to stay away from places where such things may happen and to keep my mouth shut.
It was because no one reported them until the movie was over. Many parents didn't want to cause a big scene with the two drunks with their children present.
“I’d booked the tickets a month in advance and we had our Star Wars T-shirts on - it was a big deal to us.’
Funny, I could walk right into the theater without a month old reservation.
Yup - I’ve been shot at on the Southwest freeway in Houston... so you’re not telling me something I don’t know. That doesn’t mean we just let people do things. If you’re uncomfortable or fearful about confrontation then let the business handle it. Guys like that should have been punked hard.
On the contrary.
Prior consumption of copious quantities of hard liquor just might be the only thing that has even a possibility of saving the film at all.
So what theater allows you in hammered with a case of suds under your arm?
“So what theater allows you in hammered with a case of suds under your arm?”
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Apparently theaters in Wales do-——nuts!
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Drinking is much more central to life in the United Kingdom than the United States.
Brits drink specifically to get drunk and loud, and counteract their normal reserve (best line in the otherwise awful Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "I'm English. I know how to queue."). So it's no surprise this happened in Wales. The men showed up half plastered and finished the job during the film. And all the other (sober) people were too polite to do anything but make the management refund their money.
Lor San Tekka.
Poe Dameron.
Fargin LUKE SKYWALKER.
I could go on, but that should be enough.
“Rydych chi ddau, rhowch y cwrw i ffwrdd a chau eich cegau, neu fe ddymunwch chi i chi!”
Lol You ain’t lyin’.
Lol That’s a neat description of how they drink in parts of Europe. You must know Europe.
Okay, didn’t pay attention. Maybe I’ll holiday in Wales?
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