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Author Topic: Any Giant Customers? Edwin Schwing Expert Film Handler Posts: 116 From: Las Vegas NV Registered: May 2002 posted 05-24-2005 03:52 AM                     I have a particular customer that is 7 foot 4 inches tall. Chris (the giant) has become quite a good friend of mine over the last few years. I keep offering him a job as doorman... I can see it now... Chris the Giant(doorman) is wearing a 9XL Polo... Tearing tickets... Telling people which theatre they need to go to. complaints? Talk to Chris! any one else have such? E  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-24-2005 05:43 AM                        Most NBA basketball teams have a "giant" or two.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-24-2005 07:20 AM                     There actually is a precedent for a tall doorman. Lock Martin, who played "GORT" in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL was a doorman at the Chinese theater. He was reputed to be well over 7' tall. Also, the musical "GRAND HOTEL" cast very tall actors in the role of Doorman.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-24-2005 09:47 AM                        Ironically, the guy from the movie "My Giant", is a regular customer at the Annapolis Mall 11 in Annapolis, MD. Super nice guy......  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-24-2005 02:45 PM                     ......until you piss him off!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2005 03:36 PM                     quote: Mark Lensenmayer ...Lock Martin, who played "GORT" in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL... Life imitates art! A guy who plays a giant-sized door man in a movie is, in real life, a giant-sized door man in a movie theater! Are you going to show me your ticket stub? Or am I going to have to call for my friend, "Gort", over there?!...  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2005 04:14 PM                        We had a GIRL who was nearly 7 feet tall in a few weeks ago. She had to duck to get through the hallway that runs to our auditorium. As skinny as a rail too. I never saw her before or since.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-24-2005 08:31 PM                        obviously that was one little girl standing on the shoulders of another. face it, you got ripped off. the next time it happens, push her over or lift up her dress and see what happens. carl  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2005 09:57 PM                     At thetare outside of Chicago a giant black lady who was as wide as she was tall came in and tried to sit in one of the seats in the large auditorium. She managed to get into the seat but upon truing to get out of it the seat literally exploded. She later sued the chain but I don't remember who won. This woulda been a good case for Judge Judy! Mark  |  IP: Logged Jacob A. Velleman Film Handler Posts: 13 From: Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 05-25-2005 02:21 AM                      |  IP: Logged Edwin Schwing Expert Film Handler Posts: 116 From: Las Vegas NV Registered: May 2002 posted 10-16-2005 05:53 AM                     I finally got the guy to work for me. It cost me a bit more in payroll, but I was able to talk my DM into it since he will work weekdays and we will not have to have security on these days! It's funny, when the bad customers know they are doing something wrong, a security guard comes in and tells you you have to leave, they laugh. When a 472 pound 7'4" employee tells you you have to leave, they leave without any sort of question.. they just sort of leave. They never ask for a refund or a re-ad... They just leave. $10 an hour pays off for a reg emp once in a while!!! E  |  IP: Logged Robert Harrison Expert Film Handler Posts: 239 From: Harwood Heights, Illinois, USA Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-16-2005 12:46 PM                     Oh, yeah. We have a customer who is 15 feet tall in his stocking feet! And, boy, do those feet smell! We make him wear shoes. He is so large that he can only fit in our old timey 1400 seat auditorium. Our rink-dink screens have low drop ceilings. We have to let him in through the big stage loading door behind the screen. Hell, we have to pull up the screen, too, to let him in. Then he always quietly sits in the the front left section. He can't fit in our restrooms, though. Once, when he couldn't hold it in until the movie ended, I spied him pissing into the orchestra pit. Other customers complained about this, BUT NOT TO HIM! Also, one time he farted and I thought we blew a subwoofer!  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-16-2005 10:17 PM                     At 6'6" I am the tallest former employee/current customer at my old theatre. The damn seats in the regular auditoria have the standard width between rows. I have to sit in the handicapped areas there. I like the Mugs & Movies auditorium b/c there is ample leg room and I can down a few Heinekin's during the show  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-17-2005 03:03 AM                        "Heineken?! Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" sorry, i saw that film recently and couldn't help myself. i'm not a beer drinker, actually.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-17-2005 03:09 PM                     We have a customer who has to duck significantly to clear our 7 ft. doors. He always arrives early so he can be certain to get an aisle seat so he can extend his legs into it after the crowd is in. There is a woman who comes very rarely who is 7ft+. She played basketball for a university, now has a job downtown.  |  IP: Logged

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