The rudest SC or PERSON I have ever met...

[Kusanagi]

And this wasn't even at my store. I was at a theatre yesterday attending a matinee showing of Pirates of the Caribbean. 10:30 in the morning, $5, needless to say, the place is completely packed. I'm with my grandfather who wants to see the movie as well. I'm still hobbling around on crutches (see The Worst Day of My Life thread) and we end up finding some room in the back of the theatre. At the back there is a single row with 4 seats in it that is just in front of the handicapped area. My grandfather and myself take two of the four seats, I have my crutches braced up in one of the others, clearly visible.

People are coming in with groups of five or six up to 10 minutes after the movie starts, and just STANDING in the aisle. Not looking for seats, but just watching the movie. People eventually start throwing popcorn and ice at them and they finally get the hint because they're blocking quite alot of people from seeing the screen.

About 15 minutes into the movie, I deal with the rudest person I have yet met. This blonde businesswoman who has been there at the back of the theatre with a group of three others leans over and taps me on the shoulder. I'm on the aisle seat.

SC: Excuse me, are these seats taken?
Me: No, these two here aren't, if you'd like them.
SC: Well no, I meant, are ALL these seats available?
Me: ???
SC: Well, you see, there's lots of groups of two seats together in the movie and this is the only one where there's four seats together. I was wondering if you would move so our group could sit here.
Me: :lol: You're serious?
SC: Yes. There's only two of you and four of us.

At this point, the only reprieve that's coming to me is that these people aren't bothering someone else.

Me: Well, I'm on crutches if you couldn't tell, the theatre is packed and I'm not getting up to go anywhere. Sorry.

You think that would have been the end of it. Who could possibly be that rude? This woman was dressed in a dress outfit with a miniskirt, sporting the fast pace female lawyer stereotype, so I'm sure the sense of entitlement went along with it. She turned around and walked back to her group. I turned around to watch the movie. Then someone else puts their hand on my shoulder (my grandfather and myself are VERY annoyed at this point. I turn around and it's another member of the group. Looks businessmanlike, early to mid 30s, from what I could tell. He then starts on the same line she did.

SC2: Look buddy, there's two seats a few rows up. Why don't you move up there and we can move here.
My grandfather: Look asshole, we already told you we aren't moving. Why don't two of you sit up there and two of you sit back here? My grandson has a broken foot and we're sitting near the exit so he doesn't have to walk far.
SC1 (blonde lady): Well you OBVIOUSLY shouldn't be taking him here if he's disabled.

I know we don't advocate violence to customers, but what about when you're a customer too? At this point I'm pissed, the people around me are pissed. I lose it.

Me: Well you OBVIOUSLY should have arrived here sooner so you'd find four seats together. Now leave us the f--- alone already.

So what happens? Apparently one or two of them leave, and 5 minutes later, they're back with an usher. The usher asks if I can step outside with them for a minute. I'm EXTREMELY pissed but I don't want to scream at this lady just yet because of the other people there. I hobble up on my crutches (still a very painful process) and hobble over to the exit. I get outside the theatre to where the four of them are together, and my grandfather comes with me too.

Usher: This woman is claiming you were using foul language towards her and harassing her.
Me: (absolutely livid) She came in with her group and has been harassing US to move so she could have four seats together. I'm in the back of the theatre so I don't have to walk far because my foot is broken.
SC1: Well you shouldn't be here if you have a broken foot! (yes, THAT was her arguement, ladies and gentlemen.)
Grandfather: Why the hell should we have to stay home when we want to see a movie or why should we move when you ask us to because you showed up fifteen minutes late?
SC2: Well you shouldn't even BRING a cripple out in public.
Me: :eek: :pissed: Talk about me like that again and you're going to get the shit beat out of you by a cripple.

I was PISSED. He actually took a step back when I said that. The usher gets on his radio and calls over security and management. I know ONE of us is going to get thrown out. They get there, and we repeat what happened. The blonde lady was complaining that we were harassing her. The manager is confused as to what to do when another person (Awesome Lady) come out of the theatre with her Assistant Dog.

In the handicapped section a row behind us, there was a lady and her husband who were there. The husband had his own chair, and they brought their dog. The dog is one of those trained to help people with disabilities and the husband had just had major back surgery, I found out later.

Awesome Lady: I was going to take him out to go to the bathroom, but I couldn't help overhearing. Is this about those four bothering you?
Grandpa: Yes.
Awesome Lady: I was sitting right behind them and I saw the whole thing. They walked in a few minutes late and started bugging these two to give up their seats. They did it twice.
SC2: This is bullshit. We didn't come in late!

The manager then gets a scowl on his face and looks at the group of four.

Manager: Let me see your tickets.
SC2: Why? You're going to take her word over ours?
Manager: Show them to me, NOW.

All four dig them out and turn them over. The manager looks at all of them, and says "Okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to walk over to the front counter, you're getting a refund, and you're banned from returning to this theatre."

SC1: WHAT?
Manager: All of the tickets have the time of the movie, AND the time they were issued. The time on your tickets show they were printed at 10:53, 23 minutes AFTER the movie started. Goodbye.
SC1: You can't ban me, I'm a lawyer and I will sue you over this!
SC2: This is :censored: rediculous!
Manager: What makes you people think you can harass a poor kid with a broken foot to give up his seats because you people were late to the movie and then lie about it.

The two rather beefy guards then decide to escort them by grabbing the two males by the arm and leading them away.

I'm still trembling at this point because I'm so furious. How can someone be THAT rude towards someone and then justify it by having the person have a disability (although a temporary one)?

The manager apologizes for the trouble, and gives us two vouchers for a free movie on the spot. He asks if there's anything he can do, we say no, thank you for his troubles, and he leaves. The Awesome Lady is left with us and I thank her immensely. My grandpa smiles and goes "That dog didn't have to go to the bathroom, did he?"
Aweseome Lady: Nope. I just thought you would need a witness. After all, us cripples have to watch out for each other!

Laughed LONG and hard over that one, then watched the rest of the movie.

[Imogene]

Well, yeah, but if the dog had really had to use the bathroom, I hear that business suits legs look very much like trees...
:devil:
"No, moron, I'm not going to get up and disturb everyone just so you can have seats together, broken foot or not, especially after the movie has already started."

[AmericanZero8503]

YOU SHOULDN'T BRING A CRIPPLE OUT IN PUBLIC!!!

Holy crap...if this lady was actually a lawyer she wouldn't have said that. Or maybe lawyers are not as smart as some people give them credit. This kid I know who is a pre-law major told me he was going to 'Slit my throat.' Then he acted surprised a week later when he was served a restraining order. The cop who served it to him is a good friend and told me that he told him to reconsider his career descision if he is going to threaten people in front of a large group.

[Broomjockey]

That's awesome. I love that the jerkoffs got banned from the theatre. She couldn't be a very good lawyer if she was threatening to sue over that. First off, private property, they could ban her for no reason. They actually had a reason, she was harrassing other customers.
I wish people would get ushers involved in their disputes more often. We're not psychics, we only go into a theatre every 30 min or so. If something isn't going on right then, we have no way of knowing. Too many customers just sit and put up with stuff they shouldn't have to, when its our job to tell people to sit down, shut up, and stop bothering people to move. Chances are if its disturbing you, its disturbing other people as well. And 90% of ushers love to kick jackasses out of the theatre. It would have been blatantly obvious to me that they were being rude. Person on crutches=winner in seat dispute.

On a related note, I was doing seating in a theatre one time (shuffling people around before the show starts so people can get seats together) and asked a pair of people to move down ONE seat so a group of 3 could sit together. She b***hed at me saying they showed up early so they could get those 2 specific seats. I pointed out all that needed to happen was for her husband (?) to get up and move to the other side of her, and I'm sure these 3 people would be very grateful. Finally they moved, with much sighing and long-suffering looks.

[Kusanagi]

YOU SHOULDN'T BRING A CRIPPLE OUT IN PUBLIC!!!

She didn't say it, her stupid meathead friend did.

[karma_gypsy]

Wow, I think this story takes the cake. That is most rudest, disrespectful thing I have ever heard. I can't believe she did that, and someone else was backing her up! If anything, people need to get up and move for the ones who are on crutches or wheelchairs, not the other way around. She's going to be a really crappy lawyer . . .

[Brighid45]

Having a broken foot means you're a CRIPPLE? And by implication, cripples should not show their faces in public or be allowed common courtesies? Wow. Just . . . wow. That woman was a complete freakin' ignorant entitlement whore/moron and she (and her three idiot friends) deserved everything they got. Kudos to you for standing up to them, and applause also to the disabled lady with the service dog for helping you out. Nice work for a pair of 'cripples'! :D (Good on the manager too for being a class act and not caving to those jerks.)

[chainedbarista]

SC1 (blonde lady): Well you OBVIOUSLY shouldn't be taking him here if he's disabled.

this would apply to her as well; her disability? she's EMPATHY impaired.

what a bitch; shows up late, then expects others to move for her? i say take your sorry ass elsewhere; if it's so damned important that you sit together, move your ass faster and get there sooner.

i do it, others do it, you can do it too, or sit where ever there's available seats.

i'm steamed about that disability issue too; a lawyer? my butt; the worst lawyer ever...

[One-Fang]

Kusanagi, do you have "pick on me" tattoed on your forehead? It sure seems like with some of your tales.

I agree with BJ. Whatever the dispute, if it's about seating, the person on crutches wins. I hope you and your grandpa got to see the whole film eventually. :)

[rdp78]

I just can't believe anyone would say a cripple should not go out and do stuff. Especially if they are lawyer supposely and I mean there have been many lawsuits against businesses who refusse service/goods to people with disablities as well as not hiring with disablities. Maybe they are lawyers who work for those businesses and think anyone with disablities shouldn't go out in public (I don't know if that's true but could be).

Anyway kudos to the lady with the dog for helping ya'll out and the manager for kicking those a**holes out. I'm sure the lady has dealt with people like them all the time and seems to know how to handle them well. Anyway the manager had the right to kick them out since they did show up late and expect people who there early to move for their convience.

[Becks]

The manager then gets a scowl on his face and looks at the group of four.

Manager: Let me see your tickets.
SC2: Why? You're going to take her word over ours?
Manager: Show them to me, NOW.

All four dig them out and turn them over. The manager looks at all of them, and says "Okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to walk over to the front counter, you're getting a refund, and you're banned from returning to this theatre."

SC1: WHAT?
Manager: All of the tickets have the time of the movie, AND the time they were issued. The time on your tickets show they were printed at 10:53, 23 minutes AFTER the movie started. Goodbye.


Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay for the manager!!!!!!! Woo hoo!!!!!!

And many good karma blessings for the awesome lady!!!!!!

[Mighty Girl]

That totally blew me away and for so many reasons.

First, b/c of the type of work my mom does and b/c of the family I married into, I seem to know a really large amount of attorneys- and NONE of them would do that. I know lawyers don't have the best reputation, but this wench must have graduated at the bottom of her class to pull that kind of crap.

Second, I make sure to get to movies a little early because I want to pick my seat. I always sit about 5 rows back from the front, right in the middle. And I've actually had people ask me to move down, and I've told them no regardless of their reason (for the record, none of them were on crutches). I got there early so I could have my pick of seats, I'm not going to give it up for some degenerate who wanders in during the previews.

And the "disabled" should be allowed in public places? She probably wishes society would go back to locking up the mentally ill and giving them lobotomies.

That woman had no class.

[COMINATCHA]

This woman was dressed in a dress outfit with a miniskirt, sporting the fast pace female lawyer stereotype, so I'm sure the sense of entitlement went along with it.

So if I were to dress like that in public, people will assume i'm a lawer too? Cool! I can appear kinda 'smart' for a day!

[Lehk]

SC2: Well you shouldn't even BRING a cripple out in public.

would have been on the ground with the rounded edge of the crutches pinning him by the neck before he finished speaking.

[Comp_geek]

I've had people ask me if I could move one seat over but this is ridiculous.

Props to the manager though. One of my heroes, definitely.

[TNT]

Every day, I grow more convinced that some customers should have to pay a severe penalty. The woman in this story should have to have her name legally changed to "Ms. So-and-so, the Woman Who Got Banned From A Movie Theater."

Judge: I'll now introduce the lawyers. Representing the people [blah, blah, blah]. Representing the defense, Ms. So-and-so, the Woman Who Got Banned From A Movie Theater."

Her business cards should read,

Ms. So-and-so, Attorney at Law
"The Woman Who Got Banned From a Movie Theater."

[Enjis]

Un-frakking-believable!
Tho I'd say the manager of the theatre was a hero for kicking the idiots out, he did miss out on one way to help the situation...he only geve out two free passes. Seems to me that you guys missed out on most of the movie you were watching, so it really should have been four free passes...one each to replace the movie you were now missing while arguing in the lobby, and one for being harrassed by idiots.
I can't believe the nerve of those idiots tho...it really burns me. Tho I love to sit with my friends during a movie, if we come in a big group, and we're kinda late, we settle for whatever's availabel. Can't really talk during a movie anyways...

[bars.of.a.rhyme]

SC2: Well you shouldn't even BRING a cripple out in public.


Holy shit. Holy holy HOLY shit. There are just no words.

What this woman needs is a healthy dose of karma. When you break your leg, you're in her way and an embarassment to polite society, apparantly. How much do you want to bet that if she's injured in the future, she'll try to sue a stranger for not opening a door for her or for not giving up the premo seats on the bus?

It's a good thing you have less of a temper than I do...I would have tripped them with the crutch.

[purplecat41877]

Sorry you had to go through that, Kusanagi. Hope your foot gets better.:angel:

[Kusanagi]

Lehk -

Let's just say I REALLY wish I had Lucy's powers at that point...

I wonder if she was a lawyer or was just threatening to be one. Lord knows how many people threaten legal action yet never take it.

[Barefootgirl]

To be honest, I would be surprised if she actually was a lawyer. While an awful lot of lawyers are bottom feeders of the first order, the vast majority have the common sense not to behave like this in front of witnesses. All sorts of office jobs require people to dress smartly, and dressing smartly doesn't automatically make one a lawyer !

[Cvstos]

SC1: You can't ban me, I'm a lawyer and I will sue you over this!


Pfft. Yeah, right. Poor bluff, lady. Soon as those lines about cripples come up, your case is toast. If I was the manager, I would DARE them to sue, and say we'd counter-sue for abuse of the judicial process. Some lawyer. Do you open each of your cases with how you like to eat babies and molest kittens? Because you sure know just how to set up a good case for yourself.

[Legal Eagle]

my annoying tale about seating in a cinema. me, my mother and sister went to see the Harry potter (the latest one i think). it opens at midnight and we went 7:00 the following evening. obviously it was packed so we reserved tickets. NOT SEATS. the cinema didn't reserve seats. we get there well before time knowing it's going to be packed and to get good seats. after going through the ticket/confectionary/collector lines we get to a line to go into the screen, theres only 3-5 groups ahead of us in the line. after 10 m inutes and a huge line they finally let us into the screen. so we get great seats, near the centre with 2 13 year old girls behind us. now the cinema is filling up.

U:Usher
Me: guess
Mum: guess
G1: Girl 1 (the other didn't talk)

U comes over to us, there are about 5 seats between us and the wall, same with the girls behind us.
U: Could you move down please?
Mum: move where?
U: Down the row so we can get more people in
Me: Are you serious?
U: We're trying to get more people in, please move down.
Me: Why can't they simply get past us, you know they way they do in every single other movie i've seen in this cinema?
U: I'm trying to make it easier for people to get in, please move down
Mum: we got here early to get good seats, we're not going to be pushed to the side so other people who come in late can get them.
(he gave up at this point and went to the 2 girls behind, you were wondering where they came in, weren't you?)
U: Could you to please move down?
g1: Erm sure
Me: (turning round) don't move anywhere, they can't ask you to take certain seats. try it with one more person and i'm complaining.

amazingly he decided he had better things to do.

[Lehk]

Lehk -

Let's just say I REALLY wish I had Lucy's powers at that point...

I wonder if she was a lawyer or was just threatening to be one. Lord knows how many people threaten legal action yet never take it.

i don't know, she probably would be more deserving of something involving tentacles rather than vectors :devil:

[Jester]

Second, I make sure to get to movies a little early because I want to pick my seat. I always sit about 5 rows back from the front, right in the middle.

Wow. And here I thought I was one of the only people that sat that close INTENTIONALLY. Yep, 4 or 5 rows back, dead center, if possible. Cool beans!
:cheers:

Talk about me like that again and you're going to get the shit beat out of you by a cripple.

That is the GREATEST LINE EVER! :worship:

[Banrion]

Me: (turning round) don't move anywhere, they can't ask you to take certain seats. try it with one more person and i'm complaining.

amazingly he decided he had better things to do.

This was often my job at the theatre, and I don't know what chain you were at, but at my chain we were able to assign seating.
On the back of our tickets (the half that the customer keeps) it said "Management reserves the right to revoke the privledges granted by this ticket at any time for any reason. Management also reserves the right to assign seating at our discretion."

Frequently when we had sold out movies, we would assign seating. Everyone lined up in the lobby, and Usher walked you in starting from the back right down the rows. That way the theatre is able to sell every seat in the house, and not have to undersell because of single empty seats scattered everywhere. We did inform people at the time of ticket purchase that they would not have control of where they sat, and the people who had a problem with it were told to come back in 2 weeks when we weren't selling out every show every day.

[protege]

SC1 (blonde lady): Well you OBVIOUSLY shouldn't be taking him here if he's disabled.
SC1: Well you shouldn't be here if you have a broken foot!
SC2: Well you shouldn't even BRING a cripple out in public.
Me: :eek: :pissed: Talk about me like that again and you're going to get the shit beat out of you by a cripple.


Loved the last line, BTW. That was awesome :lol: Some of you might know that I take my 90-year-old grandmother shopping sometimes. She could take herself, but since she doesn't get around very well sometimes, it's better that way. I'd hate for her to fall. She also doesn't see fine print very well, so sometimes has to ask employees about things. It's not that she's lazy, but, she just can't help it.

Anyway, if anyone was to give her a hard time because of her disability, there *would* be hell to pay. I don't take kindly to people that give her a hard time...and I *will* complain (loudly) about it. Piss me off at your own peril :devil:

[Kusanagi]

i don't know, she probably would be more deserving of something involving tentacles rather than vectors :devil:

Can't it involve both? :angel:

[Tria]

[QUOTE=Jester]Wow. And here I thought I was one of the only people that sat that close INTENTIONALLY. [QUOTE]

Front row here.... Hehe

[appliance god]

Reading this post made my blood boil a bit. There are so many young people with a distorted sense of entitlement. Ah well, at least it ended with a damn good laugh!

[BunnyJas]

What a bunch of assholes! Someone needs to break their legs and tell them that since they are now crippled they must stay at home. I'm not so sure that Ms. Bitch is actually a lawyer- if morons like that can pass the bar exam then I would be really worried. Geez, you disrespect people with disabilities in front of witnesses, demand their handicapped seats multiple times in front of witnesses, and don't even have enough sense to get rid of incriminating evidence (the tickets)- yeah, you've got yourself a winning case! Good for you for sticking up for yourself and I'm glad to hear that justice was served!

[Jester]

[QUOTE=Jester]Wow. And here I thought I was one of the only people that sat that close INTENTIONALLY. [QUOTE]

Front row here.... Hehe

While I like sitting up front, even more than most of my friends, the front row is just too damn close. But sometimes, you just can't help it.

Case in point: My girlfriend at the time and I were in LA for Thanksgiving with my family (at my sister's) and we all were out at the movies. We ended up going to see "A Perfect World" with Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood. Well, for whatever reason, I took my time in the lobby/concession stand area, and by the time my GFATT and I got into the theater, there were virtually no seats left, but we finally found two RIGHT UP FRONT....and I spent the next two hours or so staring up Kevin Costner's nostrils. Ouch. :no:

[RebeccaOTool]

Oh. My. GOD. :eek:
That is the worst thing I think I've heard on these boards EVER!! But props to you and Awsome lady for getting Blondie Bitch banned. :D

[air914]

Wow I can't imagine what I would have done in that situation! It just makes me so mad to read about it. "Cripples shouldn't be allowed out"???? Whoa. Wish you could sue her for saying that....... hope she never ever breaks a bone or ends up old and in a wheelchair or anything...... what the crap!!!! I'm glad she was banned!!!

I love the idea of picking your seats when you buy your ticket. They just started doing that at a theatre here - it costs more though which sucks, but you do get your seat..... when you buy your tickets, they turn the screen around and show you what seats are available and you get to choose your seats. Maybe all theatres should do this (and get rid of that stupid extra $2 or $4 fee) and avoid all this crap w/ stupid ignorant people like her!

[Kusanagi]

Looking back, it's actually quite funny. I'm up and around now without crutches although it still hurts quite a bit to walk. Painkillers take that down and I'm back at work. I even went to Comic-Con (in a wheelchair, as Rufus from Advent Children, proving that when life hands you a lemon, make lemonade!).

I've been crippled before, and I know what it's like far worse than a messed up foot. Back in 99 I had a diving accident that left me completely paralyzed for a few weeks from the neck down. The doctors told me I would never walk again and five weeks in the hospital and almost a year of therapy proved that wrong! It just infuriates me when people think of the disabled as despicable objects to poke fun of or that they shouldn't be allowed in public. Heaven forbid THEY ever end up in a similar situation and society treats them that way.

"But...but...but...I'M CRIPPLED! I'm entitled because I'm crippled!"

Sadly, I also know physically challenged people that think like this.

[biscuitchan]

Looking back, it's actually quite funny. I'm up and around now without crutches although it still hurts quite a bit to walk. Painkillers take that down and I'm back at work. I even went to Comic-Con (in a wheelchair, as Rufus from Advent Children, proving that when life hands you a lemon, make lemonade!).


Wooo! Go you! Incidently, do you have any photos? I love looking at Cosplay. ^^ Glad your foots getting better!

[Cufflinks]

What!?! Unbelievable, how could someone be so:censored:rude. :censored: them. What a:censored:bitch, and what a :censored: asshole.

That is the rudest person I have ever heard of.

Wow!!!

[wagegoth]

"But...but...but...I'M CRIPPLED! I'm entitled because I'm crippled!"

Sadly, I also know physically challenged people that think like this.

There was a woman who used to catch my bus I take home about every two weeks or so. She would get off at the stop near the VA. She was loud and annoying, but she was in one of those electric scooter thingies, and she was getting off within 10 minutes, and she might be a veteran, so I just ignored her.

However, she had a bad habit of just slamming into anything in her way on the way off the bus. She was a very big woman on a large electric scooter. It was scary!

One night, I was riding up front by the door, and she was in the next section down in the handicapped section. When the bus stopped to drop her off, I got up and moved back down the aisle to wait for her to leave, so that I wouldn't get my feet run over. She looked at me funny, but I just stood behind her in the aisle and waited.

As she was maneuvering her way into the main aisle, I noticed that a belt was hooked around her chair. I said, "I think you may still be hooked in," bent slightly and pointed.

She then lets loose on me, loudly, with gestures in my face, "Don't touch it. Don't help me. If I need help I'll get the driver to help me, so that if anything goes wrong I can sue them." :eek: I just stood there staring, in shock, because I had no intention of helping her, I was trying to preserve my ability to walk. She goes on and on until she's finally off the bus.

I sat back down and the driver said, "That one is a problem. She's never riding my bus again. I don't need anyone on here who just wants to sue," then proceeds to tell me about how a guy in a wheelchair on his bus deliberately threw himself off the wheelchair platform and tried to sue the company. Happily, several riders witnessed the incident, back up the driver, and the suit was dropped.

Then he says, "Don't help them, ever. Don't go near them." Me, "Don't worry, I wasn't going to help her, I was just trying to get out of her way. You can see how she drives that thing."

I don't know what happened, but I have not seen that woman since. I hope it's at least one tiny victory for the rest of us.

[LostMyMind]

Hey cufflinks, did that 4 max image per post cut into your :censored: rant? ;)

[thelong1]

On the back of our tickets (the half that the customer keeps) it said "Management reserves the right to revoke the privledges granted by this ticket at any time for any reason. Management also reserves the right to assign seating at our discretion."
.

I was curious if the theater I frequent had such disclosures on their tickets. I happened to have one from Lady in the Water still in my pocket and it says, "Tickets are valid only for the day of the showing".

[WHShit]

OMG! First of all, I am so sorry you had to be treated that way and degraded like that! I would have been foaming at the mouth! The nerve of some people. This just feeds into the view I have on all of non-retail non-servant society today. They all think they are the most important person in the entire world. That is how everyone acts nowadays, and I hate it! I am no better thatn anyone,and would never expect someone to do what that bit** expected you to do, especailly someone with crutches and a broken foot!

I am glad it all worked out in your favor!;)