The Split Second-In Consideration of Others and How to Deal with Rudeness in Others

I am working on getting my book published, The Split Second:  In Consideration of Others or Look Up from the Phone and How to Deal with Rudeness in Others. In this writing, I want to deal with the “Others” part in two ways: 1.) thinking about other people in a given situation and 2.) what to do when someone else is rude and inconsiderate of others around him/her.

I went to the movies two days ago to a theatre in Pasadena, California considered a “third-run” theatre where movies playing there were released two and three months ago. In some situations, the movies playing there might be available on Blue-Ray, DVD, or streaming services already.  This was a PG fantasy film with some violence in it (no, I will not name it). Just as the movie was starting, a man and a young child about two years old came into the theatre and took their seats. Well, the child did not want to stay seated much. I should state here that I did not want to see the movie THAT much but it is nominated for an Academy Award in a technical category and I had not seen the movie up until that time. Here’s what was going on two rows behind me. The young child was allowed to roam about the theatre, but I must admit that he stayed with the man (his father, I cannot be sure that is who he is) most of the time but not seated. The child blurted out comments about the movie and about the food they were consuming throughout the entire film’s showing and those comments were loud.  I gave a look a few  times but of course, this did not silence the child. The funny thing was the man was speaking back to the child in very hushed tones. However, he was doing NOTHING to quiet the child so everyone else in the theatre was being disturbed.

First of all, the Split Second idea that I have constructed would have that man think about the other people in the theatre who were being disturbed and do everything to quiet the child totally. If that was not successful, he should have taken the child outside the theatre and spoken with him or even taken the child home and wait for the same film to be able to be shown in their home in the various ways I have mentioned. This man seemed to have NO thought about others in the theatre. I state in my book that if a child has a tendency to be too loud in a movie theatre or restaurant, don’t take him/her there if you know he/she will disturb others.  Is that too harsh? By the way, it was the man and not the child who was at fault here.

Also, I was not that interested in the film and was hoping it would end soon on its merits and because of the child’s antics. Had I been totally interested in the film,  I might have first asked the man to do something about the child but so often, one might receive total resentment from that man and that is often pickled with profanity even in front of a child. Then I would have left the theatre myself and found a manager or at least an employee to do something about it.  Here’s my final word: if you are enjoying the film and someone is disturbing as you as you enjoy it, you do not have to put up with it, only to find the suitable ways to end it.  But folks, let’s think of consideration of others, can we?