Hello Everyone,
Props to Andrew for finally fixing this site.
Now on to business, last night I ushered at CCCT. Ushering is quite a bit of fun, and I enjoy it and it’s not that hard either. I just wanted to recap on an incident that happened last evening.
One of our jobs, one that I was assigned to during Intermission was watching the entrance to the theater and to stop people from eating or drinking in the theater. This job is always a nice low stress job; one just has to politely ask people to follow a rule that’s written on the wall next to the door. As most of you know, most people can’t read. 
Well after about 8 or so min. into intermission, I noticed a lady holding an unopened cookie and walking into the theater. As I was instructed to do, I got prepared to tell her to keep all food and beverages closed while in the theater. I was about to remind her of this when she proceeded to open her cookie. I politely stepped in front of her and told her that she was not allowed to eat in the theater. She stared me straight in the eye and said
Yes I can!
I gathered that this lady was going to try to get me to give up and let her into the theater without actually barging in. So I calmly responded to her like I did this all the time (which I hadn’t because this was the third time I had ushered and so far I had never encounter a person who questioned my motives 
) I told her it was the theater’s policy (which it was) not to allow food or beverages into the theater. She replied:
Well doesn’t someone clean up in there!
By then I had sensed that this lady really was a jerk, (I mean common, what is she going to accomplish out this?) I told her that yes we did clean up after the performance, but that just because we did that didn’t void the theater’s policy. This lady started getting annoyed that I wasn’t letting her into the theater with her cookie, that she had paid a dollar for. Her final attempt to get herself into the theater was by saying:
Well I was just on my way to my seat!
I didn’t really understand how that was relevant but luckily for me her “friend or companion” made the comment of why couldn’t she just eat her cookie in the lobby. Thus, she gave up, and ate her cookie in front of me until intermission ended.
Reflection: (I love this part!)
First off, this is a behavior I would have normally expected from a rebellious teenager. Wouldn’t you? Usually when people reach a certain age they understand the rules and are willing to follow them without a fight. Something that really bothered me was this lady was well into her 60’s if not early 70’s. I would have assumed by then that she would have learned some respect. Well that just goes to show you that no matter how sweet grandma looks she can still be an *******.
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1:38 pm on 2/6/2005 1. Andrew
I’m shocked! Especially since it was at a bay area theater, where most people are generally pretty polite and classy.
However, old people can do this…they have many reasons for being the way they are (who didn’t take their medicine today?). Its the people in the middle (the adults) who must be expected to behave politely. I guess it just boils down to: whatever.
5:43 pm on 2/6/2005 2. SuperDave
Yes, as appose to those theater-going jerks in the not bay area part of the country, those guys are not polite or classy to any extent.
8:58 pm on 2/8/2005 3. Arty
I would have to say that people are way more rude than any other places i’ve been to. Take this incident-one day my mom and i are in the movie theater and we sit down and then a family comes up and asks us if we coudl move down a couple seats we sayt okay and scoot down. This family consists of an older mom, an older dad, and two daughters in their late teens. As lady is waiting for the movie to start she pulls out her knitting needles and begins to click them.
Now this is fine except that as the first preview starts she sees the actor on the screen pushes her husband’s arm and says loudy “OH MY GOD!” and begins to make a comment about the actor while still clicking her knitting needles. People look at her but she continues to click and shout during the previews with commetary like “OH THAT LOOKS CRAPPY,” and “OH DID YOU HEAR SHE’S GETTING ANOTHER DIVORCE?”
Finally the movie (The Village) starts and the first scene starts and as soon as she sees the Adrian Brody’s face she says “OH MY GAWD! IS THAT AAYDRIAAN BRODIEE?” Finally my mother gets fed up and says quietly “Are you going to talk through the entire movie?” and the lady give her this look and says “WELL GEEZ!” very loudly drawing attention to the situation instead of just saying sorry, and in response my mother says in a quite voice “It’s okay, I accept your apology”!
THis lady is only one example i know of, i also know of one that involves a cell phone goign off in the middle of an important aria at the SF Opera. These have led me to believe that maybe the Bay Area is not the most polite place…
10:46 pm on 2/18/2005 4. Nella
Do you want to know what profession holds by far the biggest and fattest jerks? Actors. Actors can be some of the most foul scum ever to seep above the earth’s surface. And even though I realize there are many actors, especially the ones that are in our midst, that have some really amazingly good qualities; I mean it was those qualities that got them to be actors, right? But every single actor I have met, including myself, I have found to be a fairly extreme to extremely extreme jerk at some point or another in there life. It’s a little off-topic, I know, but I didn’t want to bother writing a new post.:-)
8:50 am on 2/19/2005 5. Anonymous
I think you should write a post about actors, right where everyone can see it. They are after all EXTREME snobs. It’s not even a worthwhile career to pursue, most actors have at least one other job to pay the bills, so why are they ALWAYS bragging?
6:34 pm on 9/5/2005 6. I think
By the Time you live to be 60+ you should be able to eat a goddamn cookie anywhere you please.