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Originally Posted by Supple Cow
Yes, yes they do. And in stadium seating, it really doesn't matter what at what angle they are sitting in relation to you... you can pretty much see a bright blue screen from any seat behind the offending person. That's probably what happened in the situation Gilda described, and it happens all the time when I go to the movies here in NYC. I don't care if somebody wants to read a text message instead of getting their $10.25's worth of the movie. They just need to turn to the side and shield the light so that it reflects only into their seat and at their face. It's not hard to do.
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Note to Jinnkai, a very very nicely put together series of arguments. I have to agree with you that there is a generational aspect to the entire situation. And I agree that I can accept cell phone 'noise' similarly to the background noise of barking dogs, traffic, lawnmowers etc.
But where I diverge from your well stated perpective is the embracing of a new technology to excuse the same old bad manners. As Supple Cow states, yes, especially in stadium seating the bright pinpoint of light of a cell pone easily irritates even though average Pearlescent 15% movie screen is 30 FEET by 70 FEET. It's almost like haveing a laser pointed into your eyes. And yes, I have complained and asked for my money back in these situations.
i work in an IT environment, where desk meetings can get interrupted by pagers, cells, IMs, deskphones. In all cases if I get one of these, I ask permission from the "real live" human that I am meeting with if I can answer.
If I get displaced by a phone call, I leave, or if I am at store, and my service is interrupted, I interrupt back, either waving the attention of the clerk back to me, or appealing to the manager. Once a waiter answered his cell while dealing with my table. He lost his tip.
no excuse for bad manners, and we don't have to take it.