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To quote Woody Allen: "Life does not imitate art, it imitates bad television". I could almost imagine the sitcom theme song...
On the weekend my sister was visiting her friend and decided that they both wanted to go see a movie. Being the unimaginative sort that we are, both myself and my brother-in-law also decided to go see this film. We went out, had a quick Subway fresh dinner and made it to the movie theatre with only 10 minutes to spare (6:50pm or so). This movie theatre is located in a shopping mall that closes at 7pm; approximately the time that the movie starts.
While waiting in line, my brother in law decided that he'd go use the washroom, while the rest of us buy his tickets. We do so and wait in the lobby and he doesn't come back. So we decide to go look for him, and search the remaining open places in the mall, which includes a bar on one end and a bowling alley.
After about 15 minutes of this, we finally hear his voice, in the washroom area of the mall which has now been all locked up at closing. My sister, being the nice girl she is, decides to see the movie with her friend while I wander over to the bar to see if they can get ahold of the mall's security (the theory being that the bartenders have a direct line to security if they need it). The bartender facepalms when I tell him the situation and he phones the security guard's cell phone but doesn't get through (what happened to radios?) and leaves a message. I go back to my brother-in-law and wait an additional 10 or 15 minutes. Nobody shows up besides the mall's remaining foot traffic. I return to the bartender who facepalms again and tries to call another guard's cell phone. Another 7 minutes go by while I wait and a security guard finally shows up to let my brother-in-law out of the washroom.
My brother-in-law says that the security guard DID check the washrooms before closing to see if anyone was in there. He shouted that he was locking up but that there was an exit through another door. However unbeknownst to that security guard, the other door was apparently still locked, so there was no way out. Suck in that nobody realized this and apparently the security guards were patrolling/slacking/etc enough that it ended up being an over 30minute wait or so for this to all sort out.
I was able to get a refund for the two movie tickets from the girl at the box office though, since I don't want to walk into a film with that much missing.
On the weekend my sister was visiting her friend and decided that they both wanted to go see a movie. Being the unimaginative sort that we are, both myself and my brother-in-law also decided to go see this film. We went out, had a quick Subway fresh dinner and made it to the movie theatre with only 10 minutes to spare (6:50pm or so). This movie theatre is located in a shopping mall that closes at 7pm; approximately the time that the movie starts.
While waiting in line, my brother in law decided that he'd go use the washroom, while the rest of us buy his tickets. We do so and wait in the lobby and he doesn't come back. So we decide to go look for him, and search the remaining open places in the mall, which includes a bar on one end and a bowling alley.
After about 15 minutes of this, we finally hear his voice, in the washroom area of the mall which has now been all locked up at closing. My sister, being the nice girl she is, decides to see the movie with her friend while I wander over to the bar to see if they can get ahold of the mall's security (the theory being that the bartenders have a direct line to security if they need it). The bartender facepalms when I tell him the situation and he phones the security guard's cell phone but doesn't get through (what happened to radios?) and leaves a message. I go back to my brother-in-law and wait an additional 10 or 15 minutes. Nobody shows up besides the mall's remaining foot traffic. I return to the bartender who facepalms again and tries to call another guard's cell phone. Another 7 minutes go by while I wait and a security guard finally shows up to let my brother-in-law out of the washroom.
My brother-in-law says that the security guard DID check the washrooms before closing to see if anyone was in there. He shouted that he was locking up but that there was an exit through another door. However unbeknownst to that security guard, the other door was apparently still locked, so there was no way out. Suck in that nobody realized this and apparently the security guards were patrolling/slacking/etc enough that it ended up being an over 30minute wait or so for this to all sort out.
I was able to get a refund for the two movie tickets from the girl at the box office though, since I don't want to walk into a film with that much missing.
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