We decided to go to the cinema tonight to check out ‘Eragon’.  It’s been out a few weeks so was not a particularly popular session with less than a dozen people in the theatre.  One couple sat in the row in front of us, a few seats to the left of our seats, not long before the movie previews began.  For the duration of the previews and pre-movie advertising the boyfriend continuously sent and received text messages using his mobile phone.

However, whilst he did turn the sound off on his phone he never stopped using it for the duration of the entire movie.  All the way through the movie he lit he and his partner with a ghostly white glow from the mobile phone screen as he sent and received text messages.  Even as the credits rolled and he stood up from the seat he continued to send text messages walking out of the cinema.

To my mind, he displayed all the atributes necessary to be considered my SPOTD - paying $9 to go see a movie with his girlfriend and then paying attention to neither for the duration of the movie.

Categories: SPOTD