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If you're going to the movies this is what you should remember:


Get there before the movie starts. Its not the theatre's fault, and especially not the cashiers fault, that other people want to see movies too and so there are lines. Its your fault that you didn't realize that and get to the theatre before the movie started so you weren't late to the auditorium becuase of lines.

It is not the cashier's idea to ID people when they buy tickets to an R rated movie. It is policy and, I"m fairly certain, law. So don't cuss him out if you or your girlfriend forgot your driver's licenses at home. He's also not your friend to risk his job over, and yelling at him probably won't get him to change his mind.

Discounts are not a right. They are a privelege. A favor. The theatre has child, student, and/or senior discounts because they realize that people of those groups (or the parents of those people) probably don't have a lot of money and decided to lend a bit of a hand. That means the theatre has the right to decide under what circumstances you get that discount. If your 50, you don't get the senior discount. If you don't have a student ID, you don't get the student discount. Get over it.

If there's an obnoxiously long line at concession and you only see one person on register, do not get angry at him. Pity him. It wasn't his fault to be the only one scheduled that morning, or that all his coworkers are lazy or didn't show up. If you truly think you must let someone you don't like standing in line, politely ask the cashier to call a manager down to speak with you.

Try to be polite. I know its frustrating when something unfortunate happens, but a lot of the time its out of the employees' control. Most employees and certainly most managers will be glad to help you with whatever you need if you bring it up to them politely; in fact, the managers were probably pulled away from something entirely else just to come help you with your problem. Yelling at them because an employee forgot to your ring up your Reese's will not make them want to help you as best they can.

Pay attention. If all you can see of a employee is the top of their head just peeking over the counter, they're probably not open to take your order. If someone is standing in the back facing the complete opposite direction from the front of stand, they are probably not open to take your order. Don't walk up to that spot and wait for them to notice you, or just start spouting off your order. Double if there's a register open without any kind of line.

The ushers' job is not to pick up your trash for you. Their job is to clean up any mess from the previous showing up the movie, so you don't have to sit in trash. Please appreciate their hard work and clean up your crap.

There is no entry without a ticket. The door (ticket ripper) person doesn't care if you really have to pee. You can use the restroom right across the way. And please, don't complain when you're not allowed inside to pee without a ticket. The manager will just laugh at you behind your back and tell the door guy he did a good job.

Do these, please, and make a theatre employee just that much happier.

Feel free to add to my list GM.


/me shrugs and walks away

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Once the movie starts, SHUT THE **** UP!

Leave your **** for the usher to pick up. If they didn't want to clean up after me, they shouldn't have been an usher. Cleaning up for the usher is like taking your trash to the dump so you don't inconvenience the garbage man. By leaving trash to clean, you maintain their employment. If everyone cleaned up after themselves you wouldn't need as many ushers. Be messy and help the economy.

If you hear a cell phone ring or conversation, you are EXPECTED to grab their phone and hurl it against the wall.

Any parent that brings a baby to a movie is an unfit parent. Call social services immediately.

"Punks" and "Slackers" are forbidden. "Hippies" are on probation.

If you buy popcorn, chew with your mouth closed... slob.

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the professor's list hits it right on.


main one is shut up, i could deal with everything else, just shut up.... dont talk, dont even whisper. because if im in there with ya, you get a pop bottle to the back of the head. and depending on how badly you talk, it might be full too.


altho after going for a while, you tend to notice the people that look like talkers and can sit away from em.

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Unless it's Rocky Horror Picture Show, or Snakes on a Plane! :D

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Are you kidding me? You really believe this? Have you ever worked as an usher? Do you even have a clue how frustrating it is to have theatres so messy that you cannot get it clean fast enough to get to the next theatre about to drop? Or how awful it is to try to clean just a completely trashed out theatre by yourself because everyone else had to work on a theatre that was even worse?

And, at least at my theatre, the amount of ushers we schedule for a day is determined by how many customers we expect to get that day, not by how much trash they leave, which actually leaves us with less ushers than we need. More people picking up their trash wouldn't affect the amount of ushers, just take some pressure off of the ushers and allow them more time to clean the restrooms and lobby like they're supposed.


/me shrugs and walks away

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It's really only true for food court workers.

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speaking of, i went cosmic bowling this weekend (midnight-3 am) and some bitch had her two 2 year old twins AND newborn there... ALL NIGHT.

it was ridiculous.

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If you don't think trash in a theater keeps more ushers working, you are the one who is being silly. How time consuming is the job beyond cleaning? Do you really think that if cleaning was illiminated you would still have as many ushers working? Also, if you think managers don't factor in cleaning time when it is a fact of the business, either you don't realize what it means to be a manager or your managers are morons.

On a related note, when I say leave your trash, I'm not referring to "trashing the place". I leave my refuse in a neat pile below the seat, which is completely acceptable to pretty much everyone but ushers I guess.

Cleaning up is part of an usher's job. The fact ushers clean, makes it part of their job. If it wasn't, ushers wouldn't be cleaning, someone else would.. If you spent less time bitching and more time picking up my nachos you wouldn't be so pressed for time. ;)

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I'm an usher manager. Except we call it floor. So I'm a floor manager. I don't handle scheduling though, that's for the general manager. And every Friday and Saturday from about 7:00-10:00 P.M. we get completley screwed. That's when everyone goes to the movies so every auditorium that lets out is usually full and thus trashed to hell. There's simply no way of getting out of it alive. The older movies or less popular ones have to be sacrafised and passed over in favor of cleaning the ones that matter like this past weekend the priorities were Flags of Our Fathers, Marie Antoinette, The Prestige, and Departed.

I have to side with Robert McCutchan. We have garbage cans outside every auditorium. Whatever people purchase from our confection stands and walk into theatres with is what they should be walking out with to dispose of at the nearest trash can. But they walk out empty handed because they're lazy, f---ing pigs. We should only be cleaning what accdientally falls out of their hand or mouth; bits of popcorn, the occasional straw wrapper, and a napkin here and there. The worst is used tissue though. Do NOT leave your f---ing used tissues in the arm rest cup holders.

There are some aisles full of popcorn. It's like people take their bags of popcorn and dump them on the floor after the movie is over. I wish there was some way I could link the garbage to it's respective owner so when garbage does get left behind, I could automatically teleport to the person(s) house. So they come home, open the front door, and, "SURPRISE! Here's all the F---ING SH-T you 'accidentally' left behind. I would've put it in the Lost and Found for ya, but I wanted to make sure you got it! Have a enjoyable evening, mother f---er!"

I wish Samuel L. Jackson would say that to them.

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They have trash cans they set up on the way out (sometimes at theaters around here employees are there holding extra trash bags open at the theater door)... It probably takes you more effort to arrange a neat pile than it would be to just pick the stuff up and carry it to the trash can since you're going that way anyways...

I guess you missed the little message before the movie asking you to "Please dispose of trash in the proper containers."? Perhaps you talk and smoke during the movie as well?

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lol. niiice. i like that :)



as for my opinion on the matter, i dont agree with any of you. i say lets not allow food in there AT ALL. who the hell needs to eat while watching a movie? thats not the best habit to get into in the first place. plus most people in the theatre are noisy eaters and we have to listen to them rustle through thier damn candy and popcorn bags. and the bastards that CRUNCH on thier damn nachos!


DOWN WITH FOOD!

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Yes! And the "throw away what you brought in" thing goes equally for every roommate who ever was. Which is pretty much every human being on earth.


Hahaha I guffawed a bit at that. What sweet revenge that would be.

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Along with cleaning the theatres the ushers also need to exit-greet those theatres ("Thank you for coming. Have a nice day." along with having an extra trash can for you to use to throw away your trash) and clean the restrooms and lobby. If the theatres are too messy than there's no time to get to the other theatres on time or to squeeze in a restroom check.

Besides, theatres get out soon enough after each other that having a theatre that's clean just gives us time to get to those other theatres to clean. The only time where ushers have a time where they're not cleaning is when no theatres are getting out anyway.

Anyway, unless you've worked in a theatre previously and just haven't told us, I don't think you really have any kind of argument. You don't really know how the whole thing works. You're just speculating. GM and I have experience.


/me shrugs and walks away

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well thats just it, if it was that messy and you didnt have enough time, more ushers would be hired for the extra work. (honestly, not that bad of a thing for more people to have jobs)

and if it took no time and ushers were standing around less ushers would be needed to do the job. i doubt the theatre would keep more then needed employed.

its a balance issue.

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Thank You. Link and GM can thank me for their employment whenever they feel like it. And honestly, now that I know how ingrateful ushers are for my gracious gift of leaving trash in the theater, I'm going to spit my gummi bears on the floor before I leave from now on.

Such arrogant and deluded people need to be taught a lesson... and that lesson is gummi-bear spittle. HAVE AT THEE.

And on a side note, you're theater is charging me $3.50 for those friggin' Gummi Bears... so yeah... pick my trash up. Its not being sloppy, its nonviolent protest. If you have a problem, talk to your money-grubbing concession whores. VIVA LA MOVIE REVOLUCION!!!!

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Let's just face it guys.

Strangler and Null are messy jerks.


<3

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You're welcome.

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I can't quite tell if you're trying to be some sort of over-the-top parody or not...

How about next time before you leave the theater you take a piss in the corner... They'd probably call in a special cleaning service to deal with that (in addition to the ushers you are keeping employed), thus employing even more people! Horah!

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lol, well if you read, i said no food at all. i have never nor ever will eat anything in the theatre. and i dont buy any drinks at the theatre, so my pop bottles come home with me to get my deposite back.


i was just simply saying, when theres too much work for workers. more workers get hired. when theres less, less are needed.... its simply how the job system works.
i never said to leave a mess :p :)









actually, the special cleaning service people, it would just be another job they're called on, him pissing in the corner isnt going to get anymore of them employed.

and really it might end up getting someone who works in the theatre in trouble. certainly not anymore people employed for him pissing.

upon further thinking of it..... pissing in the corner really doesnt help anyone. thats a no no. Add it to the list. NO PISSING IN THE CORNERS!
thank you.

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Let's just face it guys, it's people like Strangler who gave birth to the term 'going postal'. You people who get their jollies from screwing over employees time and time again don't realize that all the anger and frustration you cause is slowly building up inside the heads of young adults and teenagers who work these thankless jobs.

I used to do the same thing in high school. Everytime I went to Taco Bell with friends, I would eat 5 burritos and then spin around in circles for seven minutes. Then I would go straight to the bathroom and hurl all over the floor, not in the toilet, because it was so funny seeing an employee walk in there to find the mess that they would have to clean. Ole!

So the next time you spit gummy bears all over the floor and the following morning's headline reads, "Gummy bears send usher over the edge, 17 customers asses get capped", just remember this little thread.

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If he did it enough and got an underground movement of corner-pissers going it would! The various cleaning businesses would boom! In a good way!

Now if you'll excuse me, I just noticed something else.

Complaining about the price of gummi bears while talking about how you're doing your part to employ more ushers by leaving your trash behind (despite the fact that there is a nice little announcement before the movie asking you to dispose of your trash in the proper containers, i.e. the ones that are on the way out of the theater) seems rather silly, since if everyone started leaving their trash behind in "neat piles" to an extent that they did have to hire (and pay for) more workers, is there not a fairly good chance that they'll just raise the price of those gummi bears (and the other various treats) to help cover the rising cost of running the theater?

If you neatly placed your trash on the floor during the movie's running time, the effort it takes is equal to the effort it takes to bend over from a sitting position... If you left the empty or half-empty bag of popcorn in your lap, and the drink in the holder next to you, the effort it takes to pick it up would be even less...
And chances are if you're a teenager or 20-something, neither scenario should even be defined as "effort"...
So since we have established that it takes no effort at all to carry your own trash out of the theater, is it really worth employing more ushers and boosting concession and ticket prices over? *strokes beard*

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1) Thats the worst comic I've ever seen.

2) If I really wanted to help employment, I'd just burn the ****er down. More construction and healthcare jobs, and at least both of those jobs require an IQ above legally retarded.

3) You are lazy, whining bitches. If you don't like your job, get a new one. Until then, clean up my pee pee corner next the the trash can no one uses. Its not my fault your job sucks.

4) GM just implied that I'M a little nuts. That is just precious...

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My theatre is charging you 4 bucks, *****.


/me shrugs and walks away

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I actually agree with you on this.


Aside from the fact it's illegal to urinate in public.
Or so I'm told.

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I wonder...if you're a repeat offender...and the workers take notice...Mr. S you surely must have drank your fair share of "disgruntled employee urine." It's a lovely system.

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I'm one of those siding with the theater-folk on this issue, and I've never worked in a movie theater...
And although I do have one of those jobs that doesn't require my IQ to be above legally retarded (perfect for me), and I admit that I am extremely lazy, I don't have any major complaints about how customers tend to act at my place of employment, and I even have a swell boss/manager/cook/everything else who also happens to be the place's co-owner...

But hey, I think you're coming off as quite a jerk. If for no other reason than the number of times I had to step (or stumble, depending on the lighting) over one of your like-minded brethren's pile of trash because they were too lazy to take the "effort" to carry a paper cup or bag to the trash can that happens to be 2 feet from the door they were about to exit through.
Or (in reference to the video store topic) perhaps the times I passed over a movie I really wanted because some jackaninny decided he'd take the only copy they had in stock and put it under the wrong letter in the wrong section...

Sure it's someone's job to re-arrange the movie shelves. But guess what, those things don't happen instantaneously (and if the store happens to be Circuit City, it never seems to happen period... But that's more of a complaint for the store)... And in the meanwhile, you just made the store a teeny bit messier for everyone else trying to shop there...

But apparently common courtesy is only appreciated by the unemployed and/or legally retarded...
When you have a job and a high IQ, what more is there to need in life?

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Nobody's saying littering isnt bad.

He's just saying you shouldnt complain about things that are entailed in your job.

I dont think a school janitor claims kids throw too much **** around, and if he does, he shouldnt. It's his job.

If you get hired at a movie theatre, you know what you're doing. Serving food, helping customers, picking up garbage.

Yes, people can be inable of throwing trash away.
People can also be inable of attempting to find the 9th theatre in the building, despite the fact they may be asking you while standing in front of number 8.

Complain about wages, hours, co-workers.
Not what your job entails, it just seems silly.

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In my defense, all I have at my disposal right now is Paint. If I had photoshop or a scanner nearby, i probably could have done better.

Oh and secondly, shut up man. We don't like some things our customers do. Sue us you pretentious son of a bitch. Just because customers annoy us doesn't mean we're lazy. And we generally don't whine about it a whole lot. We do our jobs and most of the time we do them pretty well. Your arguments make no sense (ex. making a giant mess is GOOD for the people working at the theatre) and it seems to me like you're arguing for the sake of being a jerk. Honestly, look at the stuff you've said in this thread.

If you're trying for satire, you are really bad at it, sir.

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Don't ask for butter on popcorn. Butter is a privilege, not a right. It's up to me, whether you get butter or not. If I feel generous, I will say, "Would you like butter on that?"

And should I be so kind, do NOT ask for me to layer the butter. Again, it is up to me if and how butter will be applied to your popcorn. And to be quite frank, it just makes you seem like a ****ing pig when ask for the butter to be layered. And if you're overweight and asking for the above, you're just embarrassing yourself. Sorry, but it's true.

Do NOT ask for the 'fresh stuff' or the freshest popcorn. It's all fresh you ****ing, idiot pigs. You think it sits in there overnight and is reused the next day? No, I will not get you the 'fresh stuff' you ****ing moron. And just for asking that, I think I'll go out of my way to get you popcorn from the bottom of the bin. You know, the popcorn that's all broken into bits and is gathered with all the kernels. Munch on that, lieutenant *******!

And do NOT complain to me about the prices of food and/or drink items. If you can afford to shell out the money for your ticket, then you damn well have enough to blow on food. And if not, then you shouldn't be getting food. And guess what, last time I checked, there's no law that says you HAVE to shovel food into your ****ing face while you watch a movie (see: Null). How's that for a startling revelation? So quit bitching about the prices and just go home and watch reruns of Roseanne, you ****ing cheapskate.

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I love the non-existant work ethic the youth of today have. Have fun collecting welfare while Miguel takes you job because he's not an arrogant, self-agrandizing non-skilled laborer.

Hey Mexico, send us all the illegals you want. At least they have sense enough to appreciate the fact that someone is willing to employ them and will actually do their JOB. And yes, GM, it IS your job to give the customer butter on their popcorn, and if they ask you to layer it, you should ask them how many layers they would like, smile, and do whatever the **** they say.

Once again, its not my fault your job sucks. Out.

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And my posts, coming from the viewpoint of a fellow customer, get ignored... Giving off a general feel that you want everyone to bugger off and let you do things your way and let others deal with the results... :distress:

Calling other people lazy while you talk about not doing things that take only a few seconds and little to no effort to do (causing inconvenience not necessarily for the employees, but for the other folks enjoying the movie), even when you're asked nicely to do them (in the case of theater trash)...
All while ranting about Mexicans, the economy, how people should be grateful for your trash (and potentially the privilege to simply bask in the glory of your presence), and how things were back in your day...
*strokes beard*

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This thread is a train wreck.


1) People who work in a theatre that complain when people ask for butter or fresh popcorn is an absolute joke. That's what people do...suck it up and serve them, that's what you're getting paid to do. The customer is always right, bitches.

2) I see absolutely nothing wrong with leaving an empty bag of popcorn or an empty drink cup behind after you leave the theatre. Again, there are people employed to take care of that. However, I'm the kinda person who will make the (little) effort it takes to throw out my own garbage, because it makes someone else's life a tiny bit easier. On top of that, the idea of going out of your way to make a bigger mess is ****ing ridiculous. Just remember, if you're stuck in your car after an accident and gasoline is spilling everywhere, other people would have to go out of their way to help you. They COULD just stand there, look at you and say "oh well, you can wait for the police/ambulance to get here...it's their job to help people in your situation". They COULD...but they would be ****ing *******s and deserve all the bad things life could throw at them. Extreme example? Sure. A clear, understandable parallel drawn? You betcha.

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I worked at Jewel-Osco for a year and a half before upgrading to a decent job (intern at an engineering firm making 10 dollars an hour to sit on my ass and play solitaire and never deal with customers) and Jewel owned my ass. The customer was always right. Even if the customer clearly was not right, the customer was right. And on the rare occasion, 1 in maybe 1000 customers, the manager would have to come out and tell the customer that they were wrong. I remember one day when I was bagging: this lady who has consistently given our store problems decided that she was going to throw a gallon of milk at one of our cashiers. The cashier freaked out, naturally, and snapped on the customer and walked away. Our manager came over and APOLOGIZED to the customer in an effort to get her the f*ck out of the store. The bottom line is the customer needs to be happy, no matter how horrible, how irritating, or how stupid they are.

We all know that people are stupid, duh.

But I also knew that there were people spending an upwards of 300 dollars on groceries, and that’s business. When you drop 300 dollars on something, you deserve respect of the utmost variety. I won’t lie, I was a terrible employee. I disrespected customers, disobeyed rules, and got written up a lot. But Jewel was run by Nazis. They preached customer respect like no other. I can’t imagine the theater being any different.

Theaters are ridiculous. It’s like 8 dollars to see a movie out here. 10 dollars at AMC! And that’s not including popcorn and a drink. So, one could be spending an upward of 20 dollars for 2 hours of entertainment. If I’m spending 5 dollars or more for a bag of popcorn that costs, what, maybe 20 cents in real life, I want damn butter on it. And if I want damn butter in excess on it, I want damn butter in excess on it. If you want to complain, complain to the people who are making millions of dollars off of popcorn profit, not the customer who is asking you to make his 5 dollar popcorn taste like 5 dollar popcorn. Movie popcorn tastes good, I enjoy it, especially when you lather butter all over it. It doesn’t stop at the price though…then we have previews, previews for Coke, previews for jeans, previews for PS2 games…then we have Kerosates whoring themselves out…then we have to watch commercials about fandango…and then commercials about how we should be polite in theaters…and then we see real previews for movies, oh joy.

I have friends that have worked at the movies, they hated it. I hated working at jewel, hence the job upgrade. I understand that it’s hard work to work in a theater. But until the quality of Theaters improves in general, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a little customer appreciation. If it’s bothering you that much start spitting in peoples drinks.


Edit: In principle, I have to side with Null and Prof S here. Although, I don't think either would urinate in a theater..... :sneaky:

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My friends have masturbated in the theater, and the amount of theater sex that has happened in the history of movie theaters is probably a decent sized number. I'm sure they've delt with worse than urine, which is sterile.

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When the price of gas shot up above $3.00 a gallon, did you leave the pump off the hook and drop the squeegee on the nearest section of ground that wasn't in the path of your car?

I mean they have an employee manning the station right? So many people pay with credit cards these days, what is he really doing all that time? I say make him get off his ass and work for his pay.

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dont be ridiculous.


I leave the squeegee right in front of my back tire so I can snap the damn thing in half. If squeegees never needed to be replaced, the squeegee manufacturing businesses would be doomed. Are you going to sit there and say that you make sure that those squeegees will last for as long as possible and therefore endanger the health of squeegee manufacturer workers' families because they cant afford to feed them anymore? Shame on you.


...how do you sleep at night? HOW?!

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I'm surprised people still buy **** at the movie theaters. Buy some gummi bears and a soda at the local Wal-Mart or Targert, sneak the damn things in, and then throw them away in the trash....Easy as that...You're spending less money, and not giving the movie theater the satisfaction of selling you a $4 soda because you just bought one for a buck and snuck it in.

Though, also, don't complain about high movie prices. Theaters barely make any money because the studios take most of it anyway to allow the bitches of the industry (the theaters) to show their precious movies. The only way they can survive and allow you to see Spiderman 3 is too ridiculously overcharge you. I still choose not to buy concessions at movies though, because it is absurd. The price of admission is enough at this point.

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I've stopped going to see movies in theaters altogether. Besides the ticket price they ruined the best part of the experience: the previews. Now I get to sit there and watch glorified commercials for blue jeans and soda for 10 minutes.