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Coming to a cinema near you this weekend: sucktomers aplenty!
First of all was Mr. I've been sick but I won't inform any of the staff and just wait for someone to find it all when they clean.
I have a fair idea of who this was, he came to the food counter complaining of stomach upset, did we know if there was a chemist nearby. No idea if this guy made it or not, but we did find his leavings...it hit me in the face like a putrid cloud of stank the second I opened the door to that screen and left us hunting around for the source for a good 20 minutes. By this time we had to cancel all other shows in that screen for the day because the smell was too bad to admit people.
Second came the twaturday complainers...
SC:"Why do we have to wait so long to go in??!
Me: "Because that auditorium is being cleaned right now
SC: "It shouldn't take this long!!!
No, you shouldn't turn up so early, expecting the last lot of twaturday idiots to have picked up after themselves. Unless of course you'd like to sit in all of their mess? No? Didn't think so. Are you going to clean up after yourselves? Didn't think so either...And the cycle repeats.
Thirdly was the "I didn't read any of the signs so that's your fault" SC
Up she wanders with beleaguered looking hubby, all the way to one of the usher points and the following happens...
SC: Is this where I buy tickets?
Me: No, this is where some of the screens are, the box office is down stairs.
SC:*Amid lots of huffing and puffing* This place is RIDICULOUS!!! There is nothing to tell you where anything is!
Me: *Pleasantly pointing to the giant arrow sign that says "To box office and Kiosk.* "There are signs everywhere.
SC: Well they need to be more noticeable!
Me: *looks on bemused as she walks away...the signs are huge....And they light up.*
And last but by no means least...Little miss "the rules are for people and I am not people."
You exit the screens a different way to that which you go in, there are signs everywhere pointing the way. It's a simple concept that helps avoid chaos when 200 people are trying to queue in the place the other originally entered. It's been in place for years, but seemingly every day you get one customer who doesn't quite get it.
"But I just want to go to the toilet!" Cries little miss imperious.
Me: You can get to the toilet from the exit, it all leads back to the foyer.
LMI: But It will be quicker that way and I'm desperate!
Me: it won't be, there are people queuing outside so you'll have to go through them, it's quicker to go the other way.
LMI: But I need to go urgently!!!
So I watched, bewildered as she pushes past me only to get caught up in a crowd of 200 customers waiting to get in. What happened next is akin to a salmon trying to swim up stream, every so often you would see her head Bob up in the crowd as she attempted to see where she was in relation to the door. And likewise, every so often, an annoyed customer would be heard grumbling like a hungry grizzly bear when she nudged them to get by.
They never learn.
First of all was Mr. I've been sick but I won't inform any of the staff and just wait for someone to find it all when they clean.
I have a fair idea of who this was, he came to the food counter complaining of stomach upset, did we know if there was a chemist nearby. No idea if this guy made it or not, but we did find his leavings...it hit me in the face like a putrid cloud of stank the second I opened the door to that screen and left us hunting around for the source for a good 20 minutes. By this time we had to cancel all other shows in that screen for the day because the smell was too bad to admit people.
Second came the twaturday complainers...
SC:"Why do we have to wait so long to go in??!
Me: "Because that auditorium is being cleaned right now
SC: "It shouldn't take this long!!!
No, you shouldn't turn up so early, expecting the last lot of twaturday idiots to have picked up after themselves. Unless of course you'd like to sit in all of their mess? No? Didn't think so. Are you going to clean up after yourselves? Didn't think so either...And the cycle repeats.
Thirdly was the "I didn't read any of the signs so that's your fault" SC
Up she wanders with beleaguered looking hubby, all the way to one of the usher points and the following happens...
SC: Is this where I buy tickets?
Me: No, this is where some of the screens are, the box office is down stairs.
SC:*Amid lots of huffing and puffing* This place is RIDICULOUS!!! There is nothing to tell you where anything is!
Me: *Pleasantly pointing to the giant arrow sign that says "To box office and Kiosk.* "There are signs everywhere.
SC: Well they need to be more noticeable!
Me: *looks on bemused as she walks away...the signs are huge....And they light up.*
And last but by no means least...Little miss "the rules are for people and I am not people."
You exit the screens a different way to that which you go in, there are signs everywhere pointing the way. It's a simple concept that helps avoid chaos when 200 people are trying to queue in the place the other originally entered. It's been in place for years, but seemingly every day you get one customer who doesn't quite get it.
"But I just want to go to the toilet!" Cries little miss imperious.
Me: You can get to the toilet from the exit, it all leads back to the foyer.
LMI: But It will be quicker that way and I'm desperate!
Me: it won't be, there are people queuing outside so you'll have to go through them, it's quicker to go the other way.
LMI: But I need to go urgently!!!
So I watched, bewildered as she pushes past me only to get caught up in a crowd of 200 customers waiting to get in. What happened next is akin to a salmon trying to swim up stream, every so often you would see her head Bob up in the crowd as she attempted to see where she was in relation to the door. And likewise, every so often, an annoyed customer would be heard grumbling like a hungry grizzly bear when she nudged them to get by.
They never learn.
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