When I was a child I would watch tons of Disney movies and sometimes there would be scary moments in the films but nothing my young mind couldn’t handle. Well there were a group of kids in Ohio that went to a Disney movie only to watch the new Insidious movie. Don’t get me wrong, I cried at the end of Toy Story 3 but at no point did I get scared enough to piss myself. Instead of the potential of toys being thrown in a furnace (spoiler alert if you for some reason haven’t seen Toy Story 3) these kids got to see gory scenes about how ghosts are going to kill us all.
Just put yourself into these kids’ shoes. When I was in grade school my fellow classmates and I would go crazy after someone said the word “butt” or “fart” so just imagine what someone graphically dying while screaming words a sailor would cringe at would do to those kids. Anyways, the kids were eventually taken out of the theater because it took a few minutes into the movie for the parents to realize that this cinematic experience wasn’t going to be pleasant one. Which should be expected since parents watching a movie with their young children sounds about as pleasant as getting punted in the crotch by a professional NFL kicker, but what do I know?
The worst part is the theater had to make up for their mistake and my thing is that people who work at a theater are getting paid minimum wage which is nowhere near enough money to deal will angry parents. In fact no amount of money is enough to deal will angry parents. The fact that teachers do it on a constant basis for the salary they are getting just means they are saints, crazy people or a mix of the two. If I had to deal with parents after accidentally putting on the wrong movie I would just quit and before I leave I would complain to them about how they “accidentally” had kids. Moral of the story? There isn’t one I just don’t like when people get mad at minimum waged workers, but what about those poor kids?!?! The kids will live, life will go on and they will probably find something just as scary while flipping through the channels when the parents aren’t around.
-Tim Fluga (intern)
You can read the article from NBC’s website here.
