Thank you, my sweet Village Girl! :coolsmiley:

We are people with challenging abilities, not people with impairments (obstacles) in life!

Regards.
DD

Now these movie theaters are offering the seat-based captioning device, where you put on your seat's beverage holder. However, I am curious if you will be bothered by screen-based captions (captions on screen) or not. Because there's a basic flaw in the system - that the captioning screen is at the seat, and that makes it impossible to focus on both the captioning and the movie screen at the same time. If you focus on the captioning on the device, then the movie on the screen is out of focus, and if you focus on the movie screen, then the captions are a blur. And for people like myself, trying to focus near and far constantly causes severe eyestrain. I know how hearing people feel about open captioning. We know that at least some of them dislike it, but we don't how widespread that sentiment is.

Also, to obtain the seat-based captioning device, I have to give my driver's license. There is absolutely no justification for the theater manager or anyone else retaining possession of someone's driver's license. All they have to do is make a photocopy of the driver's license. If someone walks off with the equipment, they can call the police and provide them with the copy of the driver's license.

My husband and I had an incident happen at one of the Villages theaters. A big teenager sitting in front of me would not remove his hat. The brim of the hat was flipped up in the front. We both politely asked him to remove his hat or put the brim of the hat down. He refused. After the movie was over, I unpolitely told him where he could stick his hat in words a lady would never use! :-)

I usually just move to another seat-- if one is available-- if someone sits in the seat in front of me who may ruin the movie in some way.

Rudeness
 

I look at it this way. Even a day in a movie theater with rude people is better than a day at work. A year to go before we get to retire and move to TV and are thinking that we would rather have a few rude people around us in a show instead if what we are doing right now!

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Unfortunately there were no other seats to move to!

I too experienced plenty of rudeness at the TV theatre and that was just from the actors on the screen. I just don't want to know about their bodily functions nor their pornographic thoughts, etc tc etc.

they do make an announcement before the movie, but SUCH people as these know that it isn't meant for THEM

The hubby and I mostly attend the first matinee so we haven't run into some of the problems mentioned. The only time we have had to move was when two women in front of us had so much perfume on that it was making us sneeze. I am very careful about splashing on scent after that experience...

I usually go to the 2nd matinee which is a little more crowded than the first. There still have been a few movies where it is hard to find just the right seat if you do not come fairly early. The Debt, Wild Hogs, Boynton Beach Club, Mama Mia were all movies that I had a hard time findind a good seat even though I came early and it was a 2nd matinee.

Time to go back to the "Drive In Movies". Don't have to put up with peoples rudeness, yapping and cell phone ring'n!!! Also can be close to your Honey:ho::a040:

R there any drive ins left?

westbrook and bridgton, maine - 2 screens at bridgton! and a new refreshment stand coming this summer!