So gentlemen I had an interesting situation last night at the Traders Point AMC on 86th street. Went to see the early screening of the new Joker movie because why not? Get to the movie and sit in the very back row like always so I have a good vantage point in the theater.
Some guy a few seats in front of me and to the left has his phone out about 70% of the movie just texting away. I do my usual and ignore it until about halfway through the movie when the guy turned his volume on his phone. You could even hear when he was texting he was that much of a douche canoe.
At this point due to the noise other movie theater patrons start to ask this guy to please silence his phone. So after another couple minutes of this increasingly inconsiderate behavior I got up and sat directly behind Mr.Douch Canoe and asked him to “put his ****ing phone away so I can watch the movie”.
The guy then stands up tells everyone in the theater “everyone needs to leave him alone”, the rest of the movie goes in relative peace. But once the film finished he stands up to leave and points to myself and the other gentlemen who asked him to put his phone up and says “he will meet us in the parking lot”.
Keep in mind he is three rows in front of me so he is more than welcome to try and attack me as I have time and space. The guy leaves the theater and I am thinking “**** that’s an ambush” but I was not going to let this guy get behind me under any circumstances.
Just to set up physical force disparity I am 170# and 5’8 , this douche canoe was 6’+ Black and every bit of 300 pounds if he lays hands on I am having a rough day.
The other guy that the douche canoe yelled at approached me after the Douche Canoe left and he was freaked out as most people are not really comfortable with threats of physical violence. I asked him where his car was and we went out the side entrance to avoid confrontation I got him to his car then I went to mine. Once I was pulling out of the parking lot I saw the Douche Canoe came out the front doors of the theater obviously looking for us (or at least that’s what I thought).
So honest question what could I have done better? My comment was definitely less than nice but TBH I don’t care I hate people like Douche Canoe. I did not feel calling the police would be effective due to response times as my priority was extracting myself as fast as possible. Keep in mind I am carrying my Staccato P with a Surefire X300 on it as I want a light in a movie theater.
Some guy a few seats in front of me and to the left has his phone out about 70% of the movie just texting away. I do my usual and ignore it until about halfway through the movie when the guy turned his volume on his phone. You could even hear when he was texting he was that much of a douche canoe.
At this point due to the noise other movie theater patrons start to ask this guy to please silence his phone. So after another couple minutes of this increasingly inconsiderate behavior I got up and sat directly behind Mr.Douch Canoe and asked him to “put his ****ing phone away so I can watch the movie”.
The guy then stands up tells everyone in the theater “everyone needs to leave him alone”, the rest of the movie goes in relative peace. But once the film finished he stands up to leave and points to myself and the other gentlemen who asked him to put his phone up and says “he will meet us in the parking lot”.
Keep in mind he is three rows in front of me so he is more than welcome to try and attack me as I have time and space. The guy leaves the theater and I am thinking “**** that’s an ambush” but I was not going to let this guy get behind me under any circumstances.
Just to set up physical force disparity I am 170# and 5’8 , this douche canoe was 6’+ Black and every bit of 300 pounds if he lays hands on I am having a rough day.
The other guy that the douche canoe yelled at approached me after the Douche Canoe left and he was freaked out as most people are not really comfortable with threats of physical violence. I asked him where his car was and we went out the side entrance to avoid confrontation I got him to his car then I went to mine. Once I was pulling out of the parking lot I saw the Douche Canoe came out the front doors of the theater obviously looking for us (or at least that’s what I thought).
So honest question what could I have done better? My comment was definitely less than nice but TBH I don’t care I hate people like Douche Canoe. I did not feel calling the police would be effective due to response times as my priority was extracting myself as fast as possible. Keep in mind I am carrying my Staccato P with a Surefire X300 on it as I want a light in a movie theater.
