Fucking asshat with a cellphone

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We went to see Oceans 13 tonight. It would have been a reasonably good movie except for the asshole sitting in the row in front of us. His cell phone has a backlight that you can read by. I know, because the stupid fuck sat there playing a game on it. We tolerated it until the lights went down and his goddam cellphone did a reasonable imitation of a spotlight at a Hollywood premiere.

I asked him several times to turn it off. Twice he turned and looked at me, the rest of the time he ignored me. After the fourth time, I said I was going to get the management if he didn’t turn it off, which got me a “Fuck you, whitey” in response. I got up, went out front and got a manager. The manager came in and chewed the guy out. The asshat sat there for the rest of the movie turning the cell phone on and off every five minutes or so just to be a jerk. We would have moved, but by that time, the theater was full. And he had other people yelling at him as well besides us.

When the movie was over, he sauntered out and waited for us, looking for trouble. We usually sit through the end credits, so he had to wait for a while. When we came out, he was standing right outside the door. SWMBO needed to pee, so we headed over to the restrooms with him following right behind us. I needed to pee, but chose to hold it rather than have him start something with me in the john.

He slowly headed down the hall toward the exit. When SWMBO came out, she and I waited until he went outside, then waited some more. During the course of our waiting, we struck up a conversation with two cops working security and filled them in on the situation. When we headed out, I put on the jacket that I had slung over my shoulder. The one with the big logo for my Taekwondo school in several places. I heard one cop say to the other, “I gotta see this” and he sauntered out behind us.

We walked out the door. Sure enough, the asshat is out there. He takes two steps toward me, while he starts to yell something. He sees the jacket and literally chokes on his words. I stopped, looked at him, then said, “Have a nice evening. Thanks for ruining ours.” He starts to say something else, then looks over my shoulder and sees the cop coming out the door. He then turns and boogies on down the road.

So what’s the deal? Was this a black vs. white thing? A young vs. old thing? Or just an isolated case of someone who was just born an asshole, then apparently took lessons to improve at it?

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Well, it was supposed to be a surprise, but you’ve been secretly enrolled in the Asshole of the Month Club[sup]TM[/sup]. I don’t want to give away everything, but September will be an especially memorable month. :smiley:

Seriously, IME, jerks come in a variety of colors, sizes, political persuasions and genders. Yours was black this time. Maybe the next one will be a redneck or a vegan. It’s all a crapshoot. Sorry the movie was ruined for you. I haven’t seen it yet, but the reviews I’ve read are kind of lukewarm.

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I can’t tell if this will turn into an “assholes with cell phones” thread or an “assholes at the movies” thread, but if it turns out to be the former, I’d like to add in my 2 cents.

Dear asshole at my friend’s memorial service last night. Make that assHOLES, because even after ONE asshole’s phone went off, it wasn’t enough of a jolt to your pea brain to make you check your own. 4 cell phones total went off during a church memorial service. Seriously, how can you be so fucking stupid and rude? Proof that there is no God: No one was smote on the spot. :mad:

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You can always fantasize this happening to the asshat in the OP.

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Well, I can’t speak for all of my people, but here’s a Black person who wishes she knew Taekwondo so that I could use it on all of the people who text (or, in your case, play games) on their cell phones in the theatre! That nice little blurby before the movie (“Please… don’t spoil the movie by adding your own soundtrack.”) apparently only implies that you shouldn’t be TALKING on your cell phone during the movie. It says nothing about putting on a damn light show. And the thing is, you can see the light from a cell phone screen from 12 rows away in a large theatre, whereas if that same person were talking on the phone, you might not even notice from the same distance.

Anyway, I don’t have any advice, just some sympathy.

From a Black person. :wink:

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Add my rant to the light show at the movies. I don’t want to see that damn glow from my peripheral vision. It drives me fucking crazy!

Mine was a teen texting back and forth for the entire movie. Why the fuck come to the damn movies in the first place?

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Well done. I am not usually a great admirer of yours, but I admire your behavior in this OP.

My guess: An isolated case of assholism exacerbated by secondary infections of racist assholism and ageist assholism.

Anybody who would voluntarily pay, what is it now, $11? to sit in a darkened movie theater just to play a game on his cellphone that he could play for absolutely free while sitting in the lobby is not only an asshole but a moron. Why go to the damn theater in the first place if you’d rather play with your dingalingaling than watch the movie you paid good money to see?

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WTF!!

Are you white?

Was he black?

I’m black and I say, regardless of these two dynamics, I wish you or the cops had been given a reason to fuck this asshole up, 'cause they do come in all colors.

Where was this guy raised, in a ghetto cave?

Sidebar: as bad as it sounds, for those who jaywalk while talking on their cellphone and not looking to see if there’s any traffic, your day will come.

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Isn’t this the reason why they sell 2-gallons cups of soda at the concession stand? oopsie! my bad, sorry, have a napkin.

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Oh, my vote goes to that last option that you gave there. Arsehole to start with, just using anything he could to add on to his nasty attitude. As in colour, (or age, if that was also a difference). I imagine that, in the absence of any other differences, it would have been a “fuck off, red-haired person” or “fuck off overweight person” or “fuck off, wearing ugly shoes person” … "anything he could think of person, (assuming actual thought was possible) etc. :rolleyes:

Do people do this a lot? I can’t at all see the purpose of paying to go the cinema only to play 'phone games all the time, even less can I see why to do anything so rude.

Right, I have not been out to a cinema for ages, but be it hereby resolved that I shall not go out to see a film until such time as I have first learned some Taekwondo.
(Oh shit, no films for me, then, lazy unfit person.) :frowning:

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I find cell phones travel quite far in the air, surprising how easily they are snatched away.

Shame about the displays, they do tend to break upon impact.

I’m little, but so much of all this stuff is about front, they fold up when you have a go at them.

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I think it’s a generational thing, not a race thing. Almost all of the cell phone abusers I’ve seen in movie theaters are in their 20’s or younger. I also know it drives adults of all races equally insane. I’ve seen older black adults going OFF on black and white kids alike to turn that shit off. It also seems like a commonplace occurrance for these little shits to think that THEY’RE the ones who are being disrespected. Kids are massively entitled these days.

The “whitey” think sounds like a childish reaction to what this kid stupidly saw as being hassled by the man. All I can say is that he sounds exactly like the kind of wannabe thug I’ve seen get pulled up by the short hairs more than once by black elders who aren’t going to have that shit during a movie that they paid to see.

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Just popped into say that I think you were in the right–undoubtedly–but this

made me go :confused:

I mean, do you not get out often, and, therefore, don’t already know that assholes like this cover the entire sprectrum of race, creed, and religion? I haven’t been to Houston, but I thought it was a universal truth that assholes come from every demographic of every society.

What I’m saying is that, apart from truly relevant issues of culture, I try to avoid/tend to be wary of any question that has implications of “Why do/don’t those/these/and the other people do/say/believe ‘X’?” since, more of than not, no good comes from this.

At any rate, I’m glad that, in the end, you and the SWMBO came out of it unscathed, albeit, unfortunately, with your enjoyment of the movie ruined. I think you handled yourself well, and I think it’s hilarious that he turned all pussy when he figured out that you just might be able to kick his ass without so much as breaking a nail, and moreso when he realized that you weren’t the only one who might make things difficult for him. (Good on you for alerting the cops. Very smart and mature move, I think. Which, among other reasons, is why I think there’s a greater chance that Houstonians will one day be reading about *him * in the local paper’s crime blotter and not about you.)

BTW: SWMBO? I tried, but I couldn’t figure this out. I’m going to blame the fact that I’ve been drinking this afternoon, so perhaps the synapses aren’t up to speed, but yeah, what does this mean?

Oh, and if you makes you feel any better, the same piece of shit wouldn’t have called me “Whitey,”–'cause I’m Black, you see–but he most likely would’ve thrown a couple of “faggots” my way. (Well, I AM a gay dude.) And, in my case, I wouldn’t be able to ward him off with Taekwondo, 'cause…well, I don’t know Taekwondo. And unless I carry a gun (which I don’t), my methods of self-defense boil down to either one or a combination of mace, call 911, hike up my skirt and run for dear life. Oh, and hope that because I AM (so I’ve been told) by appearances a big, Black dude (but, really, a teddy bear), they’ll back down. :wink:

This cracked me up, although I am sorry that your friend’s memorial service was ruined like this. Fuckin’ shits!

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Okay…

That should read: “Oh, and if **it ** makes you feel any better…”

Yeah, I missed the edit window by A LOT.

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Also: Or, rather, because I’m a big, Black dude, the assholes’ll just steer clear of me, period. I hope.

Good peeps? Aside from my misanthropic tendencies (which are kept in check by my Southern gentility), you’re alright. :slight_smile:

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And, oh did that thought cross my mind more than once. :smiley:

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Yes to both. And I’m 58. He appeared to be late teens, early 20s.

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Hehehe. If you go to www.WestHoustonATA.com and click on Meet the Instructors, you’ll see a picture of me and SWMBO - She Who Must Be Obeyed.

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I knew that (well, not the 58-years-old part); I was just trying to be dramatic in my set-up to agree with you that he was wrong. :wink:

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Pix please ?

:smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

I hear in live theatre the actors call these fucknuggets “fireflies”.

I have been known to text during the trailers, and if I get an emergency call I run for the exit but I will NOT go screwing up the enjoyment of the 12 rows behind me by casting a huge white ( there’s that word again !!! ) glow over half the fuckin’ audience.

Please. Poor manners is color-blind. Having said that, this dickweed used the obvious cheap shot on you. As a minor hijack, it is 2007. Is “whitey” still that popular ?

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