Porky and her kids

I’m just popping in to write about my trip to Mines to watch The Cars. The movie was awesome. Go watch it. It’s better than The Wild and Over the Hedge put together.

But…

This post is not about the animated movie itself. This is about one particular patron in the cinema with us. A family of four to be exact.

Right from the start of the movie, the kid was screaming. Yes, screaming. Almost non stop. The movie was loud. Amid all those, we could still hear the shirking at the back. I was so damned pissed; I almost wanted to scream myself.

Now, I know it is a movie meant for kids. But that’s not an excuse to bring babies and kids under the age of 6 into the cinema and be a menace to the society. Let’s just think logically. Kids have very short attention span. Don’t expect them to sit down quietly in the dark, bombarded with loud noise and uncomfortable seats. I don’t blame the kids.

It’s the parents who are dumb. Extremely dumb. While we were turning around, giving the parents the eye, the ‘mother’ was happily stuffing popcorn into her porky face and the ‘father’ completely ignorant of the wailing child. Why have kids if you are not bothered about them? Baffles me.

Finally porky [I don’t normally call people names, but this one deserves it, deserves more in fact] decided to let her children run loose and they were running up and down the stairs in the cinema, laughing and doing summersaults, turning the cinema into some sort of an amusement park.

The same happened when I was watching Over the Hedge. The moment the movie started, a baby started crying loudly. I think its parents must have left their brains at home.

I’m extremely disappointed with the other patrons. Including myself. All of us were not bothered to tell the ‘parents’ off. Instead we chose to sit through it. I should have stood up and screamed at them to shut up.

Have you noticed that children nowadays are getting more and more misbehaved? Now I know there’s so much ho-ha about discipline without beating but want to know what I really think? A misbehaving child needs spanking. A hard one. That’s what I would do if it was my kid who was screaming in the cinema. On second thought, I wouldn’t bother bringing my kid (when i have one, that is) to watch a movie in a cinema unless I know he/she is properly behaved.

Every time I go to the bank, I see kids running loose, screaming and playing, rolling on the floor. In the hospitals, jumping off patients beds and turning it into a playground. In shopping complexes, throwing tantrums. Running around and screaming in eatries. And the parents completely oblivious. It’s like they suddenly have turned deaf, dumb and blind.

Kids should be taught basic manners in early stages. Let them run loose now, thinking beating will not solve anything will turn them into some lunatic gorillas when they grow up.

And people should stop being selfish and be considerate of others. If your kids are disturbing others, scold them and get them to behave.

Society seems to have turned into the classic case of ‘if I am blind in one eye, let my neighbour be blind completely’, if you get my drift…

Next time I see kids misbehaving in the cinemas, I’m going to shoot them. Parents first!