Don't people know the alphabet anymore?
Into the cinema they come,
Up to the balcony,
With rows A to E,
Numbered one to twentyeight.
They find their row,
And then look at the next row,
As if they don't know
They are right.
Then they can't count,
And start at the wrong end
Of the row.
Are people no longer educated?
Or are they getting too old
To remember?
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Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: We go to the cinema very regularly and see this so often where people cannot distinguish where their seat are and all there are in the circle are five rows designated A to E, clearly written at the end of each row and each seat is clearly numbered one to twenty-eight. These people wander around as if they are completely lost and completely ignorant.
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Some churches have numbered pews - from days of old when folk paid to rent-a-pew.
Anyone in their pew would get a dirty look and get turfed out.
A couple of pews even had curtains - so people could draw them and doze during the sermon? Doh!
Orchi - how do you know they wern't getting up to other mischief???
Erm, the curtained pews could only fit one person!
You have a very narrow view of what constitutes 'mischief', it seems.....
Yes I remember them Orchi, you just dare not sit in THAT pew, Mrs Smith sits there!
Andy
Well I dunno any slap and tickle mischief. Fido never lets me have any! lol.
You had definitely lost the plot, Orchi. Who mentioned slap and tickle? - bit of an obsessive fantasy is it?
Still believe that's how the Britain's biggest drug deal went down......
Not often I go for nostalgia (you do, Andy - but I'm not all that keen), but I go for the days of yore when, on the purchase of a ticket, I was deemed enough of a responsible adult to go into the cinema auditorium and chose my own seat given the following parameters: distance of the screen having determined the dimensions of said screen and proximity to other patrons (Eccentric, I know but I prefer to not compete with the armrest with a total stranger throughout a two hour film, nor have some lout in the row behind kick me in the back whenever it took his fancy).........Thus endeth my rant of the day...😇!!!
Yes that was 'back in the day' Dave, now you get numbered tickets and have specific seats, at our local cinema I always try and book the same seats, at leas we know where they are! LOL
Andy
You are a man of fixed habits, mate who is prepared to accept whatever arbitrary restrictions any large powerful company decides to impose upon you. I go to various cinemas, including a multiplex, where auditoriums there are of varying sizes, depending on the film I wish to see.
Do not focus on the poor buggers attempting to negotiate that in their own way - join them and protest - tear up the carpets and slash the seats................😇!!!
Honestly, I think that humanity is becoming detached somehow. Lack of experience, ignorance of any kind of structures, a past long forgotten...
all of the above.
So true Eugene, people just do not seem the know things any more.
Andy
I say its the darkness...
This happens while the lights are on as well Dove.
Andy
Wow, I haven't had this experience but I do not go often...great write though!
Thank you Christina, it is quite common in our local cinema.
Andy
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