I saw a movie last night and during the movie, was distracted by a family two rows in front of me. mom, a teen son and teen daughter and maybe a 7 year old daughter.
The first issue was the son was constantly moving seats throughout the movie. At one point he was sitting in front of his family. The mom was on her phone most of the movie, at several points filming the movie. The mom and son were taking turns using their phones and then passing one of the phones to the 7 year old who was playing games.
It was super distracting so I went up and whispered to the mom to get off their phones. she said, “she’s playing a game. she’s not doing anything wrong.” i said “it’s a movie theater. ya’ll aren’t supposed to be on your phones.” the mom said “you can ask nicer.” I said “or you can be a better example to your kids and actually parent them properly.“ and walked away.
A couple minutes later, I was about to get up to go talk to an employee cuz they were still on their phones but, the mom got up and was gone for a few more minutes before the kids got up and left. The teen daughter said “hope your happy. you should be ashamed of your self, talking a to a grown woman like that as a grown man.” the son called me a punk as bitch, took my collector popcorn bucket from the movie from next to me and started to run away. when I got up to go after him, dropped it and ran off.
AITA? the whole interaction was just really weird.