Hymens-hyphens. Who needs them.
Ahhh the movie theatre.
I used to manage movie theatres. I’ve had to deal with this sort of thing. When you are working box office, it get very repetative. So when something is different happens, like the woman pays, it is a little startling. Now if I were the manager and he came to me, I would (have to) pacifiy him with first some talking and then some passes or a free coke.
I would also tell the cashier that she crossed a line and to not do that again. I would probably have to explain to her that her comment was too rude to give to a customer. She probably wouldn’t think it was anything bad. But the OP should have talked to a manager and you shouldn’t have let it ruin your night.
Oh and people all the time threaten to meet me when I get off and beat the crap out of me. So you could have said that to her face and it probably wouldnt’ have fazed her.
(you don’t think it has anything to do with the fact that you look so young?)
Ah, that’s what it is about. I did wonder why there was a pile-on. It was just the standard attack on an outsider, common sense be damned.
Now THAT’s California stupid. 
You seem to be pretty good at that.
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But is the wife paying?
Oh dear I asked the bad cunty question!
Why do you think a snappy comeback should be the only acceptible form of comeuppance for the rude bitch behind the counter?
calm kiwi, I don’t think that incident alone is worth a firing, but maybe if she got dressed down by her manager she’d learn how to treat customers with respect, which would be the best possible outcome of all.
Oh, I dunno…Maybe because I’d just give her a verbal cut and that would be the end of it. Like I said, I’m not going to let a wiseass kid occupy my every thought because of rude comment.
What the fuck is it with everyone demanding the little bitch’s head on a pike? Chill the hell out.
Why couldn’t he have paid for the ticket and gone away muttering “Bloody kids sometimes you wonder if they were bought up or dragged up”.
It was a simple interaction buying a ticket at the movies. If he were asked the same question at a 5 star resturant then obviously he should have her beheaded but it was buying a ticket to the movies!
How someone can seethe all the way through the movie, all the way home and continue to seethe long enough to post about it is beyond me. A girl implied he didn’t have the funds to pay for a movie and had to rely on his wife/partner. My god! The horror!
Yes she should have kept her trap shut BUT he should have been able to go forth with his day without feeling assaulted and violated…teenagers sometimes say dumb things. That doesn’t seem to make them incapabale of selling movie tickets and popcorn. He is not frigging royalty though he does seem to have his sensitivity meter set a bit high.
Which is why my solution of giving her the finger and a big smile was so perfect. Everyone wins!
“I don’t remember anybody asking for your opinion.”
Maybe this is another one of them new-fangled cultural things, but a comment like that would be totally unacceptable here. I wouldn’t sit and stew in the movie theatre about it or fantasize about killing the commentor; I like to think I would be more likely to say something like, “I can’t see how that is any of your business,” in a gentle tone. Assertiveness rocks.
I agree, Ruby - hit-and-run thread-starters drive me crazy.
So how was the movie? Or were you too busy frothing at the mouth because there was a little too much butter on the popcorn to let it sink into your reptile brain?
Or there was two ice cubes too many in your drink?
Didn’t the ticket taker didn’t take you by the hand and sit you in the exact seat you wanted and move all the other people aside to please your emasculated sorry ass?
Was the air conditioning set 2° off from your preferred temperature?
Maybe the lights in the lobby were too bright, the paper toels in the mens room were too flimsy to dry your now limp wristed hands.
What else triggered your petty overreaction to want to chop up a non thinking teenage girl?
I would definately speak to the manager.
BTW, unless I missed it, what movie did you see?
Just a shot in the dark, but Deuce Bigalo: European Gigolo?
Stealth
I would’ve seethed with anger too.
The cashier was very rude indeed. The OP wasn’t unreasonable, IMO, to be angry and offended by that rudeness. However, responding with such rage that it ruined the rest of his evening was unproductive. And responding rudely (by yelling, or calling names) would have been, well… rude. The polite response here would have been the most effective one. The OP should have said – very coldly – “We would like our tickets now.” Once the tickets were handed over, he should have asked to speak to a manager, and reported the cashier’s rudeness. While I doubt one such complaint would be enough to get her fired, I also doubt that such a rude girl has a clean customer-service record. A complaint would have earned her a reprimand, anyway – richly deserved.
You gave her control over your whole night, and I bet she didn’t think twice about you. Hmm, who wins in that situation?
I was thinking that she might have been joking around and just used the wrong tone. Eh, either way it’s nothing to get riled up about.
Wow - at least my OP got some responses! I feel like I have an unusually high sinker ratio here on the SDMB, and I’m still trying to decide whether or not to subscribe when my guest membership runs out.
First of all - what the fuck is with the people attacking me in this thread? Seriously! Are you just miffed that I got “too angry” over it? I’ll accept that; I’m really wound up and stressed out over about 100 other things right now, and her attack was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The night out at the movies was supposed to be a respite and escape from these worries, and then her comment just opened the floodgates.
It’s important to understand that I’m angry at the fact that she attacked me, not at the actual content of what she said, so all of you eighth-graders can cut out the “You just mad because she attack your masculinity LOLZ!!!111” retorts. I could give a SHIT about what she actually said; I’m pissed about the fact that, for no particular reason (I wasn’t even a part of the transaction - I was just standing next to my wife), she verbally attacked me. Am I the only one here that’s not INSANE when I say that is a completely unacceptable thing to do?
To the deluge of homonculi that took the “You’re just mad because you couldn’t think of a snappy comeback!!!111” angle, read the fucking OP again.
I zinged her with a hell of a comeback after the first line - it was actually almost identical to one of the better ones suggested - and then she turned to my wife with even more anger and escalated her insulting attack. That’s when I got angry and was about to really start some shit when my graceful, ever-patient wife implored me to just let it go and not make a scene - so I did.
By the way, the movie was “Broken Flowers” - I started an OP about it in Cafe Society, but like most of my other OP’s, it sunk off of the page almost immediately. I’m sure once another more popular poster sees the film and makes a post about it, it’ll become a huge thread.
Well, in my case, I haven’t attacked you yet. Everything I’ve said is meant with love.