What Really Grinds My Gears – 8

You know what really grinds my gears – people at the movies.

I had my own personal experience, for the first time ever in my life, I went to see a movie by myself. You know, it really wasn’t such a bad experience – because unlike SOME people, I don’t go to the movies to socialize in the first place, so going alone is not a whole lot different than going with people.

I decided to see what all the rage was about in this Twilight phenomenon but couldn’t convince my husband to come with. This is actually where I’m lying and pretending to be cool. I knew what all the rage was about and I was dying to see the film. Anyways back to my rant.

There were only about 30 people in the crowd and I had two talkative kids (boys by the way) sitting behind me. One decided to explain the ENTIRE movie to the other, quite loudly too. And if he wasn’t explaining things, he was predicting them like “watch this part it’s funny” then he’d laugh really loud. Or he made things up like during the make-out scene he said “did you see what just happened? He injected a bit of his venom into her but he didn’t want to kill her so he stopped.” I felt like turning around and saying “THAT’S NOT EVEN TRUE!” I expected the mother to shut the kids up but she decided it was more fun to kick my chair.

And speaking of chairs, since there was no one sitting in front of the talkative kid he decided to put his feet up on the seats. Well guess what – it’s a row of seats and we can all feel you kicking. I was so annoyed, I kept glaring back, or leaning really far towards the front of my seat, but they just didn’t get the clue. There were a few times of silence when I wanted to turn around and explain it to them. Like when the vampire says “you’re like my own personal brand of heroin” I wanted to turn around and say “Heroin, kids, that’s a drug you inject with a needle but I’m sure you’ll learn all about that in high school.”

And I’m sure you’re thinking, why didn’t she just get up and move. I should have. But I was already seated so nicely with my popcorn, and I’d have to gather up all of my belongings just to move. That would probably only get me away from the kicking, but the talking you could hear everywhere.

Oh and you know in the beginning of all movies when they announce “out of respect for other movie watchers, please turn off all of your cell phones and pagers” ??? They mean turn it off, not turn it to vibrate.

We can hear things vibrate, if it’s a silent point in the film. And we can see the flash of light if you decide to open your phone up and see who is calling. What is so damn important that you can’t wait for the movie to end before responding to that text message anyway?