keanu sho' can kick!

because a certain friend of mine announced that it wasn't a good thing that i had not blogged in days, i give you the following post:

i went to see 'the matrix: reloaded' tonight. so good. even better than the first, i think. michael and i both enjoyed it and i'm sure will need to see it several more times to be able to digest it all. everything about it would have been fine, save for one detail: the people in front of us were TOTAL PUNKS! i wanted to kick their butts so badly, but refrained so as not to embarrass them for getting whipped by a girl;). seriously, there were two guys and a girl sitting in front of us, and one of the guys had the nerve to flip open his cell phone and begin checking his e-mail and DOWNLOADING FILES(!) as soon as the movie started. the screen was shining right into my eyes and creating both a distraction and a glare on my glasses. figuring he would have enough sense to be polite, i waited a few minutes before finally leaning forward and asking him to please turn it off. he plainly told me NO and kept on doing his thing. after a bit longer, michael asked him to turn it off, since it was causing a serious glare. he informed us that we should TAKE OFF OUR GLASSES.

first of all - WHAT?! in what way does that make sense? secondly, that guy had some nerve to talk to us like that. he had ZERO qualms about doing whatever he felt like doing, regardless of how it was affecting those around him. so, after his second snide answer, michael got up and went to speak to the manager, who informed him that someone would come 'right away' to check the situation. twenty minutes later, after mr. e-mailer had finally turned his cell phone off on his own, someone wandered in to do their typical 'rounds', which apparently involve wandering aimlessly about the theatre, half-heartedly checking for miscreants and violators of movie theater etiquette. POINTLESS.

after the movie, we went to the managers' station and i gave them a piece of my mind, told them plainly that it was completely unacceptable that we, two patrons who PAID to get in, should have to police the behavior of the other people in the theatre. when a nearby usher began making excuses for why she didn't come in there until later than we had asked (her manager had just told her - clearly, our request meant nothing to him), i informed her that it was not her that was to blame. it was, quite simply, the management. and i looked at them all while i said that. they did apologize several times and even handed us four pieces of paper, which we both assumed were passes to come back for another show. we thanked them for their time and their generosity and left.

as we're walking back to the car, i looked down at the tickets. yeah. they were vouchers for FREE SODAS. four of them. insulting? exactly.

next time i try to go to the movies on a saturday night, someone please remind me that this is the kind of crap that gets perpetrated on weekends...and, more specifically, on me. please. for the love of all that is good and kind.

i beg of you....please.