Lillian Hines

Should movie theaters make phone-free screenings the default?

I am the customer theaters claim to want back: a mom who pays for the sitter, the tickets, and the popcorn. But I am also the emergency contact, and my sitter reaches me by phone. Lock my phone in a pouch for two and a half hours and I am not buying the ticket; I am staying home where the baby monitor works. On-call nurses, single parents, anyone waiting on a call about an aging parent, we all do the same math. A default that treats every customer like a teenager sneaking texts will quietly filter out the adults with the most disposable income. Make some screenings phone-free and I will happily pick those. Make all of them phone-free and you will never see me. The venue policies themselves admit the friction: [Yondr's own FAQ](https://www.313presents.com/assets/doc/YONDR_FAQ-85b7c63b07.pdf) has a whole section for guests who are on call or waiting on the babysitter, because even they know the pouch is a dealbreaker for those customers.

grad students TAing one discussion section get union rights but the QB generating millions doesn't? yeah ok

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i think the real question is what the penalty is. $13 like australia? sure. $500? thats basically a poll tax

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Same. Designing my own rules made them stick because they were mine. A mandated app limit from my parents lasted about a week.

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