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Edwin Schwing
Expert Film Handler
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Posts: 116
From: Las Vegas NV
Registered: May 2002
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posted 01-20-2005 03:25 AM
When the movie going public goes to the movie, they leave their brain at home. I swear, they unscrew their skull, pull out their brain, and put in on the dresser (or wherever..)
John Q. walks in, asks what time the movie is, Doesn't know if they have a student ID or is a Senior. They don't even know what movie they want to see until they get to front of the line to buy their tickets. Then they ask again what time the movie starts.
They have thier tickets. "where is the bathroom? which theatre?"
They go to the concession stand. "you have popcorn?" "you want to know WHICH soda (pop) I want?
Which theatre? Where is the bathroom?
The patrons finally are seated, watching their movie... They come out to get a refil, or to go to the bathroom..... "where is the bathroom?" "which soda (pop)?" "which theatre?"
Then finally after all of that, you have to tell them to LEAVE!
And THAT, my dear, IS a Dumb Public.
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-20-2005 10:35 AM
I'd have to give the customer a half-point of credit on that one. Although it was poorly phrased, he did ask a valid question.
What (I believe) he was really asking was, "Are we experiencing a widespread blackout or did a fuse blow somewhere inside the theater?"
Remember, most people have no idea what it takes to supply power to a large commercial building. As far as they are concerned, you simply go to the basement and flip the breaker back on. They don't know what a power distribution panel is for, nor do they understand that, if the power goes out in a commercial building, it's likely to be something serious.
Top it all off with the fact that YOU spend your every waking moment in that building but the customer MIGHT spend a couple-three hours inside that building in a YEAR. The poor guy was sitting in his seat, watching a movie and minding his own business when he was jolted back to reality by the screen suddenly going black and the emergency light system coming on. It'd take some time for the daze to wear off.
This is the reason why people who own or work in theaters should take their emergency response measures seriously... VERY seriously... Because when you come right down to it, customers ARE dumb. You have to think like a dumb customer or else people will get killed.
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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 01-22-2005 06:55 PM
quote: Robert E. Allen I had been told our customers often do this but did not believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. What's with this?
People in crowds have sort of a lemming mentality, and follow the mass. One goes, so do the others. I've noticed similar behavior in my big rig. People will come down the left lane at a good enough clip to pass me, but then they mysteriously slow down and stick right on the end of my trailer. Just enough in the way that I can't change lanes without hitting them. I speed up, they speed up; I slow down, they slow down. Like there's a friggin' magnet on my tandems or something!
And they don't even realize how much danger they're in doing that, yet it happens all day long! That, and passing me on the right, or trying to come around me on the right while I'm making a turn at an intersection! It's beyond me how stupid people are who do that. They haven't a clue that I can't SEE them on my blind side, and that they can easily be crushed! Even before I started driving a truck, I didn't do that!
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