Tonight, DH and I went to see Night at the Museum. We get the usual song and dance about turning off cellphones and pagers, before the movie starts. Ok, no one's cellphone rang and no one "talked" on their cellphone, but some young kids in front of us, must have been sending text messages. I could see lighting up your phone, to check the time, then having the light go out a few seconds later, but this backlight was on a LONG time! It was driving me nuts, because it was right in my line of vision. So, while definitely quiet, since I was too far away to hear the tapping of keys, but the light was very distracting! I certainly wouldn't have been able to keep up with typing in the plot of the movie. I'm so slow, when I text, which isn't very often, since it costs money.

The movie is only 108 minutes long. You can't live without contact from a friend, for just that long?

By Hol on Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 01:37 am:

I hear ya! I don't get it with the kids and the text messaging. My boys do it (tho not in the theatre) and it drives me nuts! What could they possibly have to say that is so important?

Maybe you should suggest that to the management.

By Sandysmom on Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 07:35 am:

Definitely rude, and I know what you mean about how they can't live without contact from a friend for that long. Had I been in your shoes, I may have said something to them but would have ended up holding my tongue because my husband would then say "Hello Grandmom Williams, nice to see you back from the grave!" LOL! He says I am so much like her.

By Dawnk777 on Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 08:23 am:

They were a ways, in front of me, though. We were in the second row of stadium seating and they were in the flat section closer to the screen. They weren't directly in front of me. Maybe I would have said something, if they'd been in the next row. At the end of the movie, we stayed to watch some funny stuff in the credits and they left right away.

By Karen~admin on Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 09:45 am:

I probably would have reported them. The need/desire to *stay connected* is way out of hand, if you ask me.

By Breann on Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:37 pm:

That would have bugged me too. At our theater, every 15 minutes or so, an employee does a walk through the entire theater. Up one side, down the other. If people are using phones/laptops/etc., they are asked to turn them off. It really is nice. There are always people that break the rules.

We were at lunch today at a nicer restaurant here in town. It was fairly quiet in there. A girl and her dad came in and sat down about 4 tables away. All of a sudden we hear *beep beep beep beep beep beep*. The little beep from pushing buttons on a cell phone. She was texting someone a looooooong message. I told DH that I wanted to get up and go show her how to silence her key beeps. It was so loud and annoying. And, I felt bad for her dad. He just sat there while she went on and on with her text. I kind of got the feeling that he was there for some "daddy daughter" time.

By Dawnk777 on Sunday, January 7, 2007 - 12:08 am:

Gosh, that would be annoying, too. I think we have most extraneous sounds turned off, on our cellphones! Like do you really need a sound when you open and close a flip phone?

Last night, we were at Wendy's for supper and 2 guys are with each other eating supper, and each on a separate phone, with another friend. Why bother going out to eat with each other, if you are both talking to other friends? I just don't get it.