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What ever happened to manners?

I went to see “Marley and Me” last night and I still can’t get over how ignorant people were.

A man and woman seated to the right of my boyfriend talked, and I mean talked, throughout the entire movie. It didn’t seem to faze them that they were in a theater as they didn’t even bother to whisper.

I was feeling kind of moody to begin with, so the last thing I needed was for these people to annoy me after I spent $8.00. OK, my boyfriend actually paid for me. At least chivalry isn’t completely dead.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did. The woman sitting one seat over to my left had a cell phone that rang. “OK,” I thought to myself. “It happens. Sometimes I forget to turn my ringer off in quiet places, too. She’s probably embarrassed.”

Or not. Rather than silence her phone, the woman answered it instead. And she didn’t whisper, either.

Now I was fuming and thought, “Oh no she DIDN’T!” But she did. And then I did something that perhaps I shouldn’t have.

When the woman hung up her phone, I turned to her and said, “That’s rude.” I got no words in response, but she did give me a look of both surprise and death, though it definitely contained more death than surprise.

You might say that I was just as rude to point out the woman’s bad manners to her, but the whole situation would have been avoided had she not answered her audibly ringing phone in the first place.

I’m far from being “Little Miss Manners,” but I’m not discourteous to strangers who are trying to watch a movie. The children in the theater behaved much better than the adults. That speaks mountains to me.

It’s not your house, people, it’s a public theater!

I feel better now.  =)

About the Author

Rebecca Bria has been reporting for The Dallas Post since June of 2007. She is a 2007 graduate of Wilkes University and previously interned with the company at The Weekender and The Times Leader.

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