Karma
| Published 11/03/04

Graphic by: Tim Tuley

It never fails. EVERY time I go to the theater to see a movie, something always happens to ruin the experience for me.  I've gotten everything from someone near me being on their cell phone, to someone practically having sex right beside me, to some nasty guy who smelled of rancid B.O. sitting beside me in a sold-out theater.  Do I just have bad luck?  Do they HAVE to ruin my movie?  I think it's a conspiracy...

I just went to see the movie, "Saw."  From what I gathered, it was an excellent movie. Well...let me start at the beginning.

My friend and I walked into the theater at the mall in Christiansburg.  There were two other people in there so we decided to sit near the front in the middle.  Wonderful seats. Unfortunately, our beautifully empty theater did not last very long.  It started filling up with none other than Virginia Tech students.

Now, let me start off by saying that I have absolutely nothing against Virginia Tech students...

Okay, so I lied. The majority of them that I have been exposed to have shown me that they are nothing more than self-absorbed, spoiled, alcoholic children.  If they portrayed themselves differently, maybe they wouldn't have such a negative connotation in my mind.

Of course, tonight the theater was filled with them.  I'm not exaggerating. Honestly, I believe that the entire theater must have been full of them; if I was to bet on it, I'd say that my friend and I were the only students who weren't from Virginia Tech.

One of them sat down beside my friend.  He was some obnoxious - probably drunk - boy who thought he was a man.  He looked at my friend and said, "If I get too scared, can I hold your hand?" What a line.

The theater was sold-out. The movie started.  JUST as I was beginning to get into it, someone behind me began kicking my seat.  So, I pushed backwards against the offensive object in my back.  This provoked the offender even further.

Throughout the next hour and a half, the foot kept kicking and shaking my seat.  I sat up as straight and as tall as I could just to make sure their view was obstructed after they began ruining my movie.

Halfway through the movie I could feel my body shaking.  I thought, "wow, I must be really cold," but, I had my friends fleece jacket on and I realized that the cold wasn't causing my tremors.  My anger was.

I could not concentrate on the movie, but out of respect for the rest of the respectful individuals surrounding me, I decided against turning around and telling the person behind me where they could put their foot.

The movie ended and I stood with all intent of giving this person a piece of my mind.  When I turned around, there was a guy and a girl behind me and I gave them a look that would make hell's fire turn icy.  I turned to my friend and began cursing up a storm about the person behind me that kept kicking my seat.  I was later informed by my friend that the girl looked scared.  She should have been.

I honestly have never been so angry or appalled in my entire life.  We walked to my friend's car after the movie was over and I was still shaking.  I had to stand outside for a few minutes just to calm my nerves.  I was hoping to see the girl that caused me grief, but they all look alike and I probably couldn't tell her from Jack.

Point being, I did nothing - not one single, itsy-bitsy thing - to this girl, and for some reason she thought it was necessary to make me miserable through a movie I paid hard-earned money for.  I wonder if she knows what it's like to work for her money.  I wonder if she paid for her movie or if her parents paid for it.  Most likely it was the latter.

I rode back to my friend's house where we proceeded to partake in a little alcohol.  Yeah, I know it was probably a bad idea to do that when I was mad...hindsight being 20/20 and all.  But, I reached a peace when I thought about karma.  You know, "what goes around, comes around." She'll get hers and she'll get it worse than what she gave. I just wish I could be there to see it happen.

Name: Oasis
Comments:
Sounds to me like Anonymous should direct all of that hostility some place else...maybe in a Vent article perhaps? ;)

Name: Milissia
Year: Junior
Major: History
Comments:
To the jackass or bitch who left the first comment I must say that you are an inconsiderate fool who probably acts the fool at the movies yourself. Hell, you could have been the little shit causing the discomfort to the author of this article. Oh, and by the way I was the friend who was there with her and I did see the look in that girls face but what was left out of this article was the fact that I was even pissed by them towards the end because they were disrupting me. Oh, and by the way chances are if I had turned my head to say shut the fuck up they wouldn't have heard because they were screaming like some damn fools any fucking way. So, moral of the day when you hear people venting chances are it's for a good ass fucking reason anonymous.

Name: Ashton
Year: Senior
Major: Media Studies
Comments:
Good grief. Don't listen to that anonymous, angst-filled teenager below. Poor child must have had PMS or something. I know how it feels to have someone bother you throughout an entire movie; and I know how it feels to not want to interrupt the movie for others around you. It's called respect. Something the below person obviously does not and will not ever have. If the girl was kicking you repeatedly through the whole movie, OBVIOUSLY she knew she was bothering you. Though, I do think you should have beat her face afterwards, I do respect the fact you chose not to. No use having a malicious wounding charge, huh? Haha. Most more than likely you had no idea who was behind you, so you couldn't have been jealous of some guy. Especially the guys at VT that I've met. But we won't get into that one. Anyhow, nice article, nice way to VENT in the VENT section: something the anonymous one doesn't seem to comprehend.

Comments:
OOoohhhh...did you REALLY give her a dirty look? I'm sure she's scarred for life from THAT. Hey Whim...When did you change the Vent section to the Whine section? SHUT UP! And while you're at it, grow up. How old are you, 12? God, I can't stand you and I don't even know you. If you had a problem with her, maybe you should've just turned around and asked her to stop. Believe it or not, unlike you, she probably doesn't think that Leigh Anne Correll is the center of the Universe, and she probably didn't even know she was bothering you. Maybe if you weren't so whiney, you could just enjoy the film. I think you were just jealous that she had a guy with her and you couldn't find one to go with you who could stand listening to you whine from Radford to C-burg and back. Had you found a date, he probably would've enjoyed the movie because it would have actually shut you up for two hours.