Do you think parents who bring their noisy kids in the cinema are selfish?

@SW-User The only behavior that is expected from any kind of audience is respect other people and keep your volume down till the movie ends

@SW-User
[b]Except teenagers! [/b]

@Serenitree Lol Of course no. They will have to be hauled outside by the security guards if necessary

@SW-User Yeah, but it would have to be real police in the case I mentioned. Those boys were looking for trouble. With a capital TROUBLE.

They were burning stuff and I feared fire. The management may have called police after I left. I don't know.

@Serenitree I don't know how they were allowed to be in the movie room in the first place

@SW-User They paid the admission. Came in quietly. It wasn't until the lights went down and the movie started they got rowdy. As I said earlier, there aren't a lot who do this, but it does happen. And as in so many other instances, the few give the rest a bad reputation.

@Serenitree They're just cunning little brats, aren't they?

@SW-User Cunning? Yes. Little? No. They were mostly big guys! Or at least, they looked big, to an old lady with four grandkids in the same room with them.

@Serenitree They're monsters that destroy anything in their path! Lol

@SW-User I've noticed that almost every young person I've met, as an individual, is nice, fun, friendly, and in general, I love them all. The young are the future. It's when they get together in groups that they become jerks. The larger the group, the scarier their behaviour. I believe it's a need to out do each other. [b](mob mentality) [/b]Fun for them, scary for the people around, because it's us the kids are playing to. They probably sit around chatting and listening to music and just generally chilling together, until there is an audience, and all it takes is one of them to do something and another to laugh and one person who isn't in their group, to tell them to be quiet, to accelerate the activity, because now, they have a [i]reason [/i] to act out; they've been disrespected by an old person....meaning anyone who isn't with them.

This, of course, is all armchair psychology, and personal opinion. And having raised kids and grandkids and always welcomed their friends into my home, I got to see their behaviour as individuals, and how they change as more people are added. The more of them who showed up, the more likely I was to have to ask them all to leave, while I still had a modicum of control over what was going on in my home. My kids were no different. They too became part of the problem as the group grew. I guess that's what's called peer pressure.

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