Massimo Pigliucci

You make the best use possible of that time.

Yes.

You have no idea how many times I got upset about that.

Because to me, this was inconceivable.

I would say to myself, how is this guy possibly not aware of the fact that in the middle of the movie, he's raising his phone and now everybody behind him is looking at his phone instead of the movie.

It's how rude.

How could you be so inconsiderate about that sort of stuff?

And then that will, of course, ruin my whole experience at the movies because, you know, what are you going to do about it?

I mean, sometimes I did go and confront the person, usually fairly nicely.

And I got all sorts of responses from the occasional polite, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize it.

To some funny people, you know, telling me off and reacting in a very angry fashion.

I have a right to, you know, do whatever they want with my phone.

No, you don't.

You're not at home.

You're not in your home.

You don't have a right.

So sometimes those things will escalate, not to the point of, you know, physical violence, but certainly of raised voices or, you know, storming off and calling the manager of the movie theater, who usually is impossible to find for whatever reason.

And so there was a number of times when this happened.

And of course, this is a minor thing, right?

I mean, you could reasonably argue, look, man, there's a lot more important things to get upset about.