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This post is about how movie theatres work. At movie theatres, a "week" starts on Friday and ends on Thursday. This is because new movies generally come out on Fridays. And, usually, which movies are playing and when they are playing during the next week are not made available to employees until that week arrives. Understanding this, let’s look at the conversation I had with a pair of customers yesterday.

The couple was about in the age range of 55-65. They came in and the lady asked to if she could find out the showtimes for Cars for Friday and Saturday. Knowing that the sheet with showtimes for the next week the manager puts behind the concession stand had already been taken away (he only leaves it there for one day until the actual week comes), I told them since Friday and Saturday are part of a new week, I don’t know exactly when the showtimes will be. The looked at and responded to me like I was stupid. "A new week?" "Well, our week starts on Friday and ends on Thursday," [Laughs of disdain]. Then the couple remarked, "Ridiculous".

Next, I told them that the showtimes will probably be very similar to this week, with shows every hours and at least seven to eight shows per day. With that statement I practically told them when the showtimes were. Then the man remarked, "What about at night?" I told him during the night as well, but if you don’t consider the evening part of the day, then of what is it a part? The they asked a couple times if there was a number to call, which there’s not, because our message only tells the person calling the showtimes for the current week. Then they walked out pissed.

I didn’t know for sure when the showtimes would be, but I more or less told them when I said it would be similar to this week. If you’re going to be unagreeable, stay home. Oh, and take your wet napkins out of the cup-holders.

P.S. We also do not control what is in fandango (or other sites) and in the newspapers (well, we tell the newspapers the right stuff, but occasionally there are typos).