Anything Unusual At The Cinema

[jennyjoan]

Two occasions spring to mind.

I had taken my niece to see a movie when movie was stopped and projector came into the audience and asked for whoever it was could they stop their alarm clock from ringing. I couldn't hear it but niece did. It was an old lady's who I would suspect had a bit of dementia.

Another time I was going to cinema and forgot myself and genuflected before going into seat.

[Mamyalynne]

Genuflect

to kneel on one knee and then rise again as an act of respect

[Mamyalynne]

I have done the genuflecting more than once in the wrong place , usually concerts.


Not a big cinema goer so no funny tales spring to mind JJ.

[jennyjoan]

in the Catholic church.

[anneasquith]

LOL @ JJ genuflecting. :-)

[jennyjoan]

I am not a cinema goer either or at all for that matter Mamy cos I just don't hear anything of the movie but used to take my late Down's Syndrome niece fairly often. Offered up my hearing loss to God LOL - boring as it would be for 2 to 2 and half hour of going "dee dee dee dee dee dee".

[Mamyalynne]

Bless you , the things we do for those we love.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I went to the Seagull - play and not a film
and stopped the performance in the final act by shouting at Mme Arkadina

oh that is a terrible way to act to your son ...

an arteest you see - I hd got too involved in the dramatic action ......

[Peter Pedant]

JennyJoan if it were My little Pony
I c an tell you the dialogue would make you throw up in the aisle ( of the cinema that is ! )

[Cloverjo]

Nothing unusual, particularly, for me. But the cinema seems to be the only place I get enough courage to tell kids off for misbehaving. One was when a lad had a chain that he put in his mouth and then spun around in the air sending droplets of saliva flying all over the place. I tapped him on the head and told him to stop. The other was when a boy behind me put his feet up on my seat either side of my head, right by my ears. I turned round and told him to put his feet down and saw that he was with his grandmother, who I used to work with. She gave me such a look!

[jennyjoan]

She was lovely and very clever. She used to say to me "Jenny - only for me having the Down's face I would be treated as normal and she sure would have been. Loved her.

[vulcan42]

years ago when our two sons were young we took them to the cinema. Sitting behind us was another family and the mother, sitting behind me, had the toddler on her knee. This youngster wasn't that interested in the film and spent most of the time trying to ram his wet dummy into my left ear.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes people can be most cruel, acceptance is getting better but still a way to go.


I believe I once got my Dad ejected from the cinema with my loud screams of terror - he had taken me to see an old style western and the stampeding hordes terrified me.

I was 3.

[jennyjoan]

Oh another occasion - a lady and a toddler and she was breasfeeding a tiny baby. The toddler wanted to go to toilet and she asked me to hold baby. Boy she took a chance cos I coulda run away with babby. I do remember baby weighing a ton so breast is best LOL

[jennyjoan]

Mother took me to see Bambi (I was very very young) - she looked around and tears were streaming down ma wee cheeks - that morning I had just got a new hearing aid and the music was killing me - do recall that maself. LOL

[gness]

Morning, Conne.....not at the Cinema, but Saturday mornings, late fifties, early sixties, after following the bouncing ball, cartoons etc. my friend and I would visit her gran who lived in a flat by the cinema. The flat was above a hairdresser.

Gran would give us digestive biscuits and milk....we would go to the bedroom my friend had there, crumble the biscuits and then, when we heard the bell of the hairdresser's door, lean out of the window and drop the crumbs into the hair of the girls who had just been lacquered to within an inch of their lives to keep the style in til the next week......x

[jennyjoan]

Oh my - gness you are a bad'un LOL

[gness]

We thought it was the funniest thing ever, Conne.....ashamed of myself now....... :-(

[Islay]

You were very lucky to get a hearing aid in 1942/3 as they were very expensive and the NHS was not yet in place which meant your parents had to pay for it themselves.

You were a very lucky child.

[jennyjoan]

I think maybe in the late 50s I sure would not have shared my digestive biscuits with anybody's hair as it was a boon to get a biccy.