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April 08, 2009
Movie Manners
Pop Quiz: You want to take your older kids to a free screening of a movie, but you can't find a sitter for your fussy 9-month-old baby. Do you:
A) Tell the older kids sorry, but we can't make it tonight. I'll find a sitter for your brother and take you this weekend when the movie opens.
B) Take the older kids, get them seated with their popcorn and sodas, then sit out in the lobby with the baby and keep him amused for 90 minutes or so until the movie's over so he won't disturb others.
C) Take the older kids and stay in the theater yourself, pacing back-and-forth in front of the screen with the baby while he squawks loudly. Let him crawl around all over the dirty carpet and crawl up and down the stairs making loud baby noises, disturbing everyone who's sitting on the aisle. When he cries loudly (which is often), talk to him in a loud, annnoying "baby" voice about how cute he is, and attempt to engage others who are watching the movie in conversation about how cute your baby is crawling all over the floor and distracting everyone. All during the movie. Nonstop.
Guess which answer the woman sitting behind me at the screening last night chose?
Posted by kvoynar at April 8, 2009 08:50 AM
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