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AITA for ruining my family’s movie by vaping in the theater? I recently quit smoking before going home for the holidays. While staying with my family in a small rural city, I went to see the new big box office hit at our local theater with my mom and aunt. Not really my bag, but hey the seats reclined and they served beer so why not. With about 10 minutes left in the movie the guy next to me says loudly “ARE YOU VAPING? SERIOUSLY?!” Sure enough, my [insert name brand small vaping device] was in my hand. I didn’t realize how automatic the habit had become, plus I was completely engrossed in the last minutes of the film. So I said, “my bad dude, I won’t do it again,” and put it away. He kept saying thinks like “this is bullshit” and “I don’t know what’s in that thing” and “my KIDS are here” LOUDLY. So I packed my things, got up, and said to my family “you guys stay and enjoy the rest of the film.” The guy FOLLOWED me out and told a manager that he noted our seat numbers and that I should be ARRESTED. He was at least 6’ I’m a small-ish 5’7” girl, so it was a bit scary. My mom also came out and the manager came out and asked me to leave. Which is fine, I hosed up. I asked her if my family could stay and finish the film, but at this point the guy was still yelling that his “kids are here” and “I don’t know what’s in that thing.” So we all left. My mom yelled at me as soon as we got back and my aunt is furious with me. I was emotionally exhausted by being yelled at by a stranger and my family, so I retreated to the guest room for the rest of the night. Tonight is my last night home and I feel bad for not spending more time with my mom, but honestly I don’t have anymore mental energy. Am I the rear end in a top hat here?
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Jan 2, 2020 06:45
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QuarkJets posted:The bully gets to walk away thinking that her bullying must have not been that bad, since her victim doesn't even remember her. That seems like a pretty alright outcome even if it's not especially satisfying. I'd hardly call that brutal I think you need to use a bit more imagination and put yourself in a position of doubting your memory, senses, or sanity.
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Jan 2, 2020 06:46
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for ruining my family’s movie by vaping in the theater? don't loving vape inside, don't loving smoke inside. it's 2019. why are we still talking about this.
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Jan 2, 2020 06:47
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QuarkJets posted:Really, though? Why do those have to be the only outcomes? As in, could the bully have reacted differently? Sure. I'm just trying to interpret the reaction described in the text. And of course I am giving the writer the benefit of the doubt that it isn't just creative writing on her part, which it may very well be.
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Jan 2, 2020 06:48
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razorrozar posted:don't loving vape inside, don't loving smoke inside. it's 2019. why are we still talking about this. it sounds like she did it unconsciously, stopped, put it away, and apologized as soon as she was asked - it didn't really warrant getting her thrown out in the last ten minutes i'm assuming since she's using it to quit smoking, its just the flavoured e-juice poo poo. it seems like he was convinced she was vaping thc and wanting to be punitive about it.
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Jan 2, 2020 06:53
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the dude in question is absolutely an entitled jerk and overreacted, and no, she shouldn't have been thrown out. she's still an rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 2, 2020 06:54
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StrangersInTheNight posted:it sounds like she did it unconsciously, stopped, put it away, and apologized as soon as she was asked - it didn't really warrant getting her thrown out in the last ten minutes No vaping is gross if you blow your robot dick smoke in my face expect me to raise hell. gently caress this person.
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Jan 2, 2020 07:01
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How do you unconsciously start vaping in the middle of a movie theater This is the same kind of person who just randomly starts texting during a movie, they don't deserve any sympathy
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Jan 2, 2020 07:09
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QuarkJets posted:How do you unconsciously start vaping in the middle of a movie theater
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Jan 2, 2020 07:11
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LimburgLimbo posted:Imagine living in a world where Atheism makes you broken but thinking you’re a witch is rad and cool Thats the normal world tho. People who can't believe in something greater than themselves won't believe in socialism either.
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Jan 2, 2020 07:12
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razorrozar posted:have you ever tried not shaming people because they believe things you don't that have no effect on you whatsoever Yeah no poo poo Colonel Cancer posted:Thats the normal world tho. People who can't believe in something greater than themselves won't believe in socialism either. I... I’m not sure if you understand what words mean? Might want to work on that.
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Jan 2, 2020 07:15
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QuarkJets posted:How do you unconsciously start vaping in the middle of a movie theater How does one unconsciously do anything? She's not totally innocent, she did something wrong, but it doesn't seem to be with ill intent. The guy seems to be a huge rear end in a top hat though. She put the vape away and got out of the theater. What else does he want?
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Jan 2, 2020 07:15
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Colonel Cancer posted:Thats the normal world tho. People who can't believe in something greater than themselves won't believe in socialism either. Have you read DnD?
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Jan 2, 2020 07:16
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Actually I take that back. Only theists, be they god-botherers or witches, can believe in certain models of government is now my *favorite* of takes.
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Jan 2, 2020 07:16
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therobit posted:Have you read DnD? Yeah wizards are OP
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Jan 2, 2020 07:16
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LimburgLimbo posted:Actually I take that back. Only theists, be they god-botherers or witches, can believe in certain models of government is now my *favorite* of takes. You must be feeling so euphoric right now 
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Jan 2, 2020 07:18
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Hip-Hoptimus Rhyme posted:How does one unconsciously do anything? She's not totally innocent, she did something wrong, but it doesn't seem to be with ill intent. The guy seems to be a huge rear end in a top hat though. She put the vape away and got out of the theater. What else does he want? Everything that he did after she left: yes, he's an rear end in a top hat. But I can't really blame him for flipping out at someone for suddenly blowing smoke at them during a movie. "I didn't do this with ill intent" isn't an automatic pass when what you're doing is gross and obnoxious and widely understood to not be acceptable. She understood that she hosed up. People texting during a movie aren't operating with ill intent, either, but they're still assholes
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Jan 2, 2020 07:20
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I don’t really identify as an atheist but some take are just so mind-bogglingly stupid that I just want to comment so that I can hear more about how much of a ridiculous existence you must have
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Jan 2, 2020 07:21
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Are you saying socialists are taking the idea “the voice of the people is the voice of God” extremely literally?
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Jan 2, 2020 07:24
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If you aren't all about the (holy) ghost of Communism, I don't know what to tell you. Fyi there's a real good reason for distrusting and disliking self labeled atheists, they are smug nerds who think that they are better than other groups of people because of their professed rationality while almost always believing in ephemeral ideas like "western civilization" or "two genders".
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Jan 2, 2020 07:32
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Gonna change my new year resolution to becoming a fit witch. All you suckers can bask in the glory of my inner goddess.
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Jan 2, 2020 07:44
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Colonel Cancer posted:If you aren't all about the (holy) ghost of Communism, I don't know what to tell you. LimburgLimbo posted:I just want to comment so that I can hear more about how much of a ridiculous existence you must have
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Jan 2, 2020 07:47
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Dazerbeams posted:Gonna change my new year resolution to becoming a fit witch. All you suckers can bask in the glory of my inner goddess. When you shine a light on my glutes youll be bathed in full moon light
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Jan 2, 2020 08:13
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Licarn posted:WIBTA if I refuse to let a person fully join our coven. this is the most california thing i've read since Grapes of Wrath
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Jan 2, 2020 08:38
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My (27F) found out that my husband’s coworker (22F) has at the very least seen my husband’s (29M) naked Long story short... at a NYE office get together with my husband last night. I barely know anyone there, but my husband was recently promoted to executive VP in charge of new client outreach, so it was pretty much required that we go. As I am making chit-chat with a circle of about six women, one of them, (calling her Tracy for now) doesn’t realize who I am, causally mentions that my husband “left his wife at home” and that hopefully she’ll “get to see that big cock again” I thought she was making an off color joke, knowing that I was Mark’s wife. So I laughed nervously and said “only if I’m there to supervise” (I was nervous and didn’t know what to say) It got really quiet in the group and when it was pointed out to her who I was she turned white as a ghost and tried to backtpeddle about it being a joke. She almost immediately left the party, couldn’t have stayed much more than 10 minutes. This coworker, “Tracy” is pretty in my opinion, and I had a child 14 months ago, don’t look the way I used to, and haven’t been overly sexual since giving birth. I haven’t brought up this to my husband yet, but I think I have to do so before he returns to work tomorrow. I just don’t even know where to begin, I was once convinced he was cheating on me when we were dating years ago, but he told me I was seeing things that weren’t there.
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Jan 2, 2020 08:55
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StrangersInTheNight posted:it sounds like she did it unconsciously, stopped, put it away, and apologized as soon as she was asked - it didn't really warrant getting her thrown out in the last ten minutes vape smoke fucks up your lungs, nicotine-free or not
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Jan 2, 2020 09:08
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Barudak posted:When you shine a light on my glutes youll be bathed in full moon light I'm pretty sure this is how you become Pillar Men.
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Jan 2, 2020 09:22
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm pretty sure this is how you become Pillar Men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUhVCoTsBaM
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Jan 2, 2020 09:25
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:No vaping is gross if you blow your robot dick smoke in my face expect me to raise hell. please knock Mom! posted:vape smoke fucks up your lungs, nicotine-free or not it's not that it's nicotine-free, i mean it was thc-free dude who freaked out was insinuating she was doing drugs in front of his children i'm saying it sounds like it was a standard, non-drug vape pen. she pulled once, apologized and stopped. it's not ideal but it sounds like it was a legitimate mistake and she understood her error and stopped, and they'd all be able to get through the final minutes of the movie with no problems. wtf is wrong with you guys, why would you make such a huge stink at the very end of a movie and make it poo poo for multiple people if someone is willing to apologize and stop?
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Jan 2, 2020 09:31
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She vaped inside a movie theatre. She didn't stop until she was called on her poo poo. It wasn't a mistake, she was willfully doing it and exposing others to something linked to serious lung problems. Typical pushing boundaries poo poo and hoping nobody's going to call her out for it. Dude was justified if a little too panicked, she should get a long theatre ban until she grows up.
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Jan 2, 2020 09:54
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please knock Mom! posted:She vaped inside a movie theatre. She didn't stop until she was called on her poo poo. It wasn't a mistake, she was willfully doing it and exposing others to something linked to serious lung problems. Typical pushing boundaries poo poo and hoping nobody's going to call her out for it. Dude was justified if a little too panicked, she should get a long theatre ban until she grows up. I don't know why you're so convinced she was doing on purpose, unless you're trying to start an argument for no reason. She was an rear end in a top hat to some degree but ultimately left the theater to end the situation, dude was an rear end in a top hat for following her out of the theater and causing a scene. Unless you've got some evidence of teens using vapes to brainwash children in public settings, I don't think there's much more to say on this.
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Jan 2, 2020 10:03
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i don't think you realize how unconscious something like that can be if you do it in freely in your own home but even going with the most uncharitable of interpretations for her behavior, there's really no reason to be super punitive on this except to satisfy one's own hard-on for vape hate. once someone leaves its not like you can extra-throw-them-out or something StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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Jan 2, 2020 10:07
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Smirking_Serpent posted:WIBTAH if I told my manager that my coworker who is supposed to be out for a funeral is at the Cotton Bowl? This is so inexplicable to me because he already had the time off. Why change then lie about it?? Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for ruining my family’s movie by vaping in the theater? She's 100% an rear end in a top hat for vaping in the theatre (imagine "I subconsciously lit up a cigarette") and should be banned for a while, but the dude and her family are assholes for ragging on her this long.
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Jan 2, 2020 10:11
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remember that Joose can be dissolved into vape goo, meaning that anyone you see vaporizing could be endrugluating their mind so heavily that they'll go hog wild on ebay and just buy a baker's dozen of pianos. fear the outside world! fear it! wooooooo!!!!!
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Jan 2, 2020 10:25
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ilmucche posted:(imagine "I subconsciously lit up a cigarette") that...doesn't make the point you think you're making. the fact that you don't have to light it anymore is part of how it can become unconscious - with a vape pen, there's fewer steps between you and smoking and the huge visual cue is gone - lighting a cigarette is such a visually taboo thing from the getgo and it's impossible not to be physically aware of it. With a vape pen, folks sometimes just tune out and then realize they have a robot dick hanging out of their mouth. It's part of how it can actually be more habit-forming that regular cigs. Along with the erroneous idea they are 'safer', people can just sort puff them for hours without thinking while watching tv or reading or whathaveyou. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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Jan 2, 2020 10:26
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QuarkJets posted:But I can't really blame him for flipping out at someone for suddenly blowing smoke at them during a movie Just want to point out you keep saying something that didn’t happen. If she had blown her vape cloud in his direction (much less directly in his face as you said earlier) he would’ve gone full meltdown mode in the middle of the theater; might have started a fight, even. I’ve met plenty of that type of person in my time. She vaped while sitting next to him. She’s an rear end in a top hat. He’s a loving nut with anger problems. And her family is pretty lovely for dog piling after the guy wouldn’t stop being a loving nut after an apology and a promise to leave.
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Jan 2, 2020 10:47
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If you vape indoors then you should be completely shunned from society till you fix your problem. If you vape outside then you should be completely shunned from society till you fix your problem. Simple really.
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Jan 2, 2020 10:53
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StrangersInTheNight posted:that...doesn't make the point you think you're making. the fact that you don't have to light it anymore is part of how it can become unconscious - with a vape pen, there's fewer steps between you and smoking and the huge visual cue is gone - lighting a cigarette is such a visually taboo thing from the getgo and it's impossible not to be physically aware of it. With a vape pen, folks sometimes just tune out and then realize they have a robot dick hanging out of their mouth. Sure, all of that is correct but the point I'm trying to make is subconscious or not she's still now inhaling and blowing smelly clouds of smoke into the theatre. That's the rear end in a top hat bit.
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Jan 2, 2020 11:00
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why make a big deal when he said stop, she did, and even left to let her family be? there's no value to haranguing her about it. if you wanna get her banned, just run out right at the end and grab the manager. also 'clouds of smoke' lol no, it was one, by mistake, stop it
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Jan 2, 2020 11:17
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StrangersInTheNight posted:i don't think you realize how unconscious something like that can be if you do it in freely in your own home No one is defending his effort to be super punitive She's still an rear end in a top hat, "I didn't even realize that I was doing it" isn't a free pass for lovely behavior and smoking in a movie theater is lovely behavior
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