'Sorry man, can't let you in': Movie theater employee gets to stop annoying teens from buying tickets

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 6, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Movie theater etiquette can be quite divisive. A lot of movie-goers appreciate a quiet theater. But then, the general public enters. Some people clearly do not want to be at the movie at all, and they show this by being on their phones for the entire run time. Some people bring their kids, who insist on using their iPads or running up and down the aisles. And then sometimes groups of teens come into the movie, and since they're just kids, they don't really care about the movie experience of the customers around them. They just want to have fun and goof off with their friends. They're having fun… but for everyone around them, they're subjected to loud laughter and getting hit by stray pieces of popcorn. 

U/TheInitialGod worked at a movie theater long enough to learn which customers were going to be rowdy: if they were already being loud and disrupting people in the lobby, there's a high chance they'll spend a full movie doing that too. At least this one time, that movie theater employee got to maliciously comply with the group of teens! 

Check out the full story down below. And then, read about the waiters who accidentally said the most awkward things to their customers. 

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    Want a child ticket? Sorry man, can't let you in.
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    So, here in the UK, a 15- Rated film means that you have to be 15 to see the film, no exceptions. Back a few years ago, we had 2 ticket types at my cinema. Adult and Child (it's since changed to incorporate a Teen ticket). Child was Under 15, and Adult was anything 15 and above.
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    This guy comes in with his mates, back of the queue to get in, but can be heard throughout the foyer being all loud and obnoxious, and the generalisation I've found in my experience in the cinema is that if they're teens on their own and they're loud and obnoxious. in the foyer, there's a high chance they'll be the same during the film and
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    generally be a nightmare in the screen. I start to notice some other people in the queue looking over at him. and rolling their eyes. I get the pleasure of serving this guy. Comes up to me, still shouting over at his mates who are getting served by some of my colleagues, and asks for a ticket to see this 15 Rated film (can't remember which.
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    One of these low budget crappy horrors that have come out in their many sequels recently... Insidious, or Sinister, or Annabelle or whatever). He looks about 16/17, but since he said "a ticket", Work Script Autopilot takes over as I ask how old he is so that I can sell him the correct ticket type. Him being the person he is, and probably since he's gotten
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    away with it before to get the cheaper ticket price, said he was 14. The moment he said that, a massive grin washes over my face. "Sorry mate. This film's a 15." holding back my glee at not having to deal with his for the next 2 hours. "I can't let you in". No amount of begging. and pleading would make me budge, so he asks to speak to the manager.
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    Manager comes down, sides with me and he's on his way, day ruined.
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    Mudslingshot My first job was in a movie theater, and I loved catching people doing like this. One night I was ticket tearing, and this couple in their 30s walk up. They hand me tickets, and I glance down to see the auditorium number so I can point them in the
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    right direction.... And see that they have bought CHILD tickets from the self serve kiosk. I tell them I'm so sorry, I know those machines can be confusing, but you'll have to go up to the help desk and return your tickets. They can exchange them for adult tickets for you. (I was just
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    being professional, we all knew they did it on purpose) I knew something was up when they returned the tickets, but instead of getting replacements from the desk, they went back to the kiosk. They return to me with two SENIOR tickets. Now I'm . I give
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    them the same spiel, and dude is pretty upset at this point. They finally get their correct tickets. Here's where I had fun: since it was an R rated movie, we had someone stationed at the auditorium door checking tickets to make sure kids didn't sneak in. I radioed him, and told him to check
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    this couple's IDs, even though they were obviously old enough. I also asked the concession stand to card him if he used a credit card (something we could do if we suspected the card was stolen)
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    A minor inconvenience, but it was pretty satisfying watching him have to keep clawing his wallet apart in ever increasing frustration.
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    MsBateman I once remember overhearing a kid moaning about not being let into a 15, saying 'I've got size 9 feet, of course I'm 15'. I think the ticket guy had to hold back from laughing.
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    MyHusbandIsAPenguin. This happened to me and my friends once but by accident. Our school years are September to August, and the last person in our friend group had finally turned 15, in August. We rocked up to the cinema (not obnoxiously I might add) and she asked for
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    a ticket and then said she was 14 by accident. They wouldn't serve us after that. It was her actual birthday that day.
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    Elgin_McQueen Jokingly did this once with a couple of mates. at the local cinema when we were 16. Woman at the box said no problem, but then pointed out the age rating. We confessed our ages but she said she couldn't let us in as for all she knew we were lying again.
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    Eventually she settled on flipping a coin, we won, paid the extra and got in. Would never have worked though if it had been busy or if we were about it.
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    noyoucanthavemyname I had the reverse of this once. I asked for an adult ticket to see Deep Blue Sea. The guy asked how old I am and I insist I'm 15 to get in, after a back and fourth he eventually says it's cheaper if I'm a child and points out the film was a 12. Good guy.
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