'I said shut that kid up!': Boomer yells at 5-year-old in a children's museum during an educational movie, snores through the entire runtime

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jul 2, 2024 8:00 PM EDT

There are a lot of people who hate kids for no good reason. I understand if you don't want a family of your own or you get irritated by babies crying on an airplane: this isn't about you. I'm talking about adults who, for some reason, expect children to adhere to adult maturity levels, even if the time and place don't call for it in the slightest. This is one of those situations. Parents brought their daughter to a children's museum and were shocked to find a baby boomer man shushing the children. Not only was he shushing them, but he was alone in the museum movie theater, snoring through the entire educational film. If you dislike the sounds of happy children, why would you come? Also, why are you there if you're not a father or a grandfather? Why was he allowed in the door? So many questions need to be answered here. 

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    Boomer tells 5-year-old to shut up at the Children's Museum
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    We took our daughter to the city's Children's Museum. I mean it's right there in the name - it's a place for children, and as such one would expect there to be lots of children there right? We are well into summer vacation, obviously kids aren't in school right now.
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    The museum has a lot of interactive, hands-on exhibits (again, it's the CHILDREN'S Museum). There's also a planetarium. We line up outside, the doors open, and we make our way into the theater and there's one of those old white dudes with a crusty pony tail and ballcap parked in a seat. As families are filing in, he's shushing all the kids, telling them it's a movie theater and they need to stay quiet. He's getting odd looks but mostly being ignored. No one is being "loud" by the way, just the s
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    Well, everyone settles in and before the show starts, there's the standard announcement to "please keep your phones off during the show" blah blah. Nothing on the screen. Somewhere behind me I hear a kid ask his mom what the movie is, she says something about planets and space and stuff, and he excitedly starts talking about the solar system. He was mot being loud at all, the show hasn't started, and the theater lights haven't even dimmed yet. The boomer with absolutely zero discretion in his to
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    this guy. I turn around and angrily tell him to knock it off, it's just a kid, and the show hasn't even started. He huffs and says that no one should be talking in the theater. The show starts, there's animations of supernovas and comets and all that, and the couple times the kid starts to express amazement, he's quickly shushed by his mom. So sad. 40 minutes later it's over and that boomer slept through the whole thing. As we leave he's still there snoring, more like choking and hacking on his
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    Why? He was there by himself which isn't inherently wrong, but why go to a place that obviously is going to be populated by a lot of kids and get mad about kids being there? Would he go to a football game and get | at people cheering at a touchdown? Is it just a sheer hatred for children? TL;DR boomer yells at children for enjoying the children's museum.
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    TimmyCabron - 22 hr. ago After the show, you should've gotten about two inches from his face and screamed "WAKE UP!! THERE'S NO SLEEPING IN THE THEATER!!"
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    Full-Appointment 5081 - 21 hr. ago Exactly This. & add "How can you be so DISRESPECTFUL OF SCIENCE!!"
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    BetMyLastKrispy Kreme 23 hr. ago In the nearest big city to me, you have to have a kid with you to even go in the children's museum. It's messed up that a childless adult can make it miserable for the individuals the place was created for.
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    Clean Philosophy5098 - 22 hr. ago Yeah, reallly wish the person in charge of the show escorted him out for yelling
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    BasilExposition2 - 22 hr. ago Yeah, I went to meet my father at the childrens museum and they wouldn't let him in. I had to go to the front desk with my kids before they let him in.
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    BetMyLastKrispy Kreme 21 hr. ago Sounds great! Of course we know why places such as these have to operate like this: the few have ruined it for the many. It's not safe to let randos in where there are little kids.
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    Pitiful-Citronel666. 23 hr. ago I had the opposite experience at planetarium at the San Diego children's museum a few weeks ago - but this one had a boomer who had a walkie talkie to communicate with his family. He continually gets buzzed on the walkie "grandpa where are you?" From his grandkids and he would full volume "I'm in the theater, over" and started fully conversing with them during the film. I didn't care but the little kids right in front of him were trying to watch the educational mo
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    Mindy_A_Bizness - 22 hr. ago I have a hard time reading these Boomer posts that have no consequences for the Boomer.
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    Xavier_Emery1983 - 22 hr. ago Someone should have dumped some water in his lap. Then politely wake him up and ask "Sir, where is your caretaker because it appears you have had an accident?"
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