Re:Emergency Calls? (Score 1)

Hi folks,
I think the real thing to think about here is why, for the span of time of a movie, would most people be worried about receiving an emergency phone call? Most people go to the sorts of places that will like to ban cells as escape places to get away from worry. Ask yourselves how many people you actually know who said -- thank God I had my cell phone on me at the movies -- it absolutely saved my life.

I pay money at the theater to see a show or at the movies to see a flick, not to listen to someone else's cell phone. And the same people who don't shut off their phones certainly aren't paying to listen to mine. It's that simple. A movie fills up with 30 people each paying $10 a ticket--a single rude person on a cell phone at this movie is intruding on $300 of other people's money.

And walking around with a cell phone everywhere you go and leaving it on just because some aspect of your world or the world itself might end isn't a good way to live. There's no sense in carrying potential trouble with you absolutely everywhere you go. Don't get me wrong -- if someone you love is mortally ill and you step out to a movie as a distraction, by all means bring your cell just in case, but then again, the question to ask yourself is whether or not your time will be better spent with that loved one or close by to that loved one.