The Nerve Of Some A-Hole!

This evening, my husband and I decided to take the whole family, which is basically Me, My husband, His mom, and our baby to the movies. We were celebrating the passing of his mom's DMV written test. Since we are avid movie go-ers (think about once a week IF blockbuster comes out...if not once every 2-3 weeks), we were very excited, not really about the movie, but about getting out together. Since after the baby's born, my husband had gotten to go to the movies 3 times already and I've been wanting to go! Before going the movies, I was prepared to only watch a partial movie since I was going to take our baby out if they crying starts so we won't disturb everybody else. We've been on the other side and remember cringing every time a parent sits through the entire movie with a crying baby. It was NOT a good experience.

However, as we reach the front door of the local movie theater, some real low life jackass (middle age freak) was complaining to the manager about how inconsiderate it was to bring babies to the movie theaters. His voice gets louder and louder and as soon as he saw us walking in, he pointed to my baby and complained louder again that it was stupid to bring babies into the movies since they can't watch movies anyways. Basically indirectly calling us inconsiderate.

Being a new mom, needless to I really took offense at the finger pointing, especially when my baby has not done anything to offend him. He walked back to his 2 kids (YES! HE HAS KIDS OF HIS OWN!...at least we think so) and as he passed by me, I called him an asshole, which he angrily yells back "You're stupid to bring a baby to the movies". At that point, it took me exactly 2 seconds to decide whether I was going walk away or I was going to confront. Basically the flight or fight moment.

I chose the fight. I turned around, walked up to him, and firmly said "excuse me, did we do anything to offend you in the first place?". He snidely replies with "you called me an asshole!". I yelled out "You pointed at my baby as if he ruined your movie" after my comment, I really do not recall much since my husband (really my hero) quickly stepped in-between and loudly defended us. As you can imagine, very heated words were exchanged and the manager called the security guard for the jackass. We turned around to walk to our movie theater.

A few minutes passed and the manager quickly walked up to us and apologize for the incident. He was very professional and showed empathy to the entire disgusting ordeal. However, our night was alread ruin because being a new mom, I now worried about my baby's crying and what if there were MORE of those jackasses around that doesn't want us in the movie theaters with them?!

It's quick to say that the simple solution is "don't bring baby to movies" BUT what does that mean?! If babies cry, then we shouldn't bring them?! So that means parents should NOT bring them to other public places in the fear of crying. Parents should isolate themselves at home?! I think not! I know I won't!