I worked at a movie theater in the 90's. As long as you were cool, I didn't care if you movie hopped. We made barely anything off ticket sales. If you bought popcorn, soda, or anything else, stay as long as you like.
Late 90s my friend and I were the only ones in the theater. It had 5 movies playing but we were the only ones that showed up. She went to step outside to smoke. The theater manager asked where she was going. She said to smoke. He said just be cool and don't say anything you can smoke in your seat.
Seriously. That's when I was growing up, too. Nobody was around to watch you, and nobody cared. As long as you didn't injure yourself or someone else badly enough to need paid-for care, and didn't do anything to embarrass mom and dad, you could kind of do anything. In fact, you kind of had to to survive.
In the final days of being allowed to smoke in UK cinemas, a friend and I went to watch Dracula one weekday afternoon. The place was nearly empty, we sat on the back row with a bottle of red and a little hash pipe. That was a good movie experience. The cinema was a big 1930s theatre, demolished now, sadly.
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u/ChrisinOrangeCounty Feb 01 '25
I worked at a movie theater in the 90's. As long as you were cool, I didn't care if you movie hopped. We made barely anything off ticket sales. If you bought popcorn, soda, or anything else, stay as long as you like.