If you dropped your kid off at the movies...

and you think that they are really sitting in there, then you should just go park outside the theater and check. Seriously, I saw girls trying to get picked up by strangers riding by, girls being picked up by strangers, girls sucking helium out of balloons that they just bought at the dollar tree, and then saying inappropriate things to adults walking by, and some kids walking behind the theater in the shadows. I observed all of this in the 30 seconds that it took me to walk to my vehicle. Maybe you should quiz your kid on the movie, but I'm sure they got a ticket just to cover themselves and probably looked up a summary of the movie online before they went.

I've always wondered about this situation? I just wonder if I know some of these kids?

People drop their kids off at the skating rink, movies, mall, anywhere they can spend a few bucks and get rid of their kids for a while. They don't know what's really going on becase they are too irresponsible. It's really sad!

been there wrote:

Maybe you should quiz your kid on the movie, but I'm sure they got a ticket just to cover themselves and probably looked up a summary of the movie online before they went.

Haha I used to do this. Would search on what the movie was about before I went. We usually didn't watch the movie, we went to someone's house or out and around so i could sneak cigs. My grandfather would never come back to check on me cuz I always said I was staying the night at this friend's house. So he didn't like to get back out to drive around. But i finally grew up after got over the "18 i can do anything" stage. They never asked for the ticket cuz I never kept up with stuff like that anyway. Used to throw em away as soon as i got them.

We drove through the lot earlier to look at the movie posters...just to see what's playing...and while we were there I saw 2 girls get out of a car with adults, stand in line till the car left the lot and then go to the other end of the building and get in a car with 3 young boys...My daughter is almost to the age that I would let her go to the movies alone but you'd better believe I'm gonna check up on her!

they have been doing this every since there was a movie theater. i worked at one 25 years ago and the kids did that then, this is nothing new. what is new now thou is the danger.

guest wrote:

People drop their kids off at the skating rink, movies, mall, anywhere they can spend a few bucks and get rid of their kids for a while. They don't know what's really going on becase they are too irresponsible. It's really sad!

I happen to be a mother that allows my 15 yr old daughter to be dropped off at the movies and have never had any problems. And yes im not saying shes perfect in anyway because nobodys kids are but she was raised the right way and knows better than to do stupid things like that. She is not one who leaves the movies and goes to hastings and is back before i arrive to get her. She can walk to hastings after the movie is over and i will pick her up there but only becsuse she has called me to ask if its ok.And yes you are thinking she just dosen't know what her daughter is really doing but you are wrong.Maybe if more parents cared and communicated with there children more often you would be as close to yours as i am to mine.

Not all kids are that way. They were raised that way. You can ask mine child and they will tell you. I will drop her off but she knows not to play the games with me. I will whip her a** for it.

Mom wrote:

Not all kids are that way. They were raised that way. You can ask mine child and they will tell you. I will drop her off but she knows not to play the games with me. I will whip her a** for it.

AMEN to that because if i see or even hear of her doing something wrong,omg the price she would have to pay.You know cell phones mean alot to kids these days and they dont think they could live without them so all i have to do is say the phone is mine for one week if you ever back talk me again and boy you talk about a different kid lol works everytime

I would get dropped off at the movies and not leave because I knew I would get my a** beat but I would actually go into the theater and still not watch the movie cause I'd be making out with my boyfriend the whole time. so kids don't actually have to leave the theater to get into trouble.

used to wrote:

I would get dropped off at the movies and not leave because I knew I would get my a** beat but I would actually go into the theater and still not watch the movie cause I'd be making out with my boyfriend the whole time. so kids don't actually have to leave the theater to get into trouble.

l I dont think my daughter will be making out with her girls lol

GUEST wrote:

<quoted text>l I dont think my daughter will be making out with her girls lol

HUH?

i appreciate this post, because my daughter got her azz busted because of it. Thanks to who ever started it.

GUEST wrote:

<quoted text>l I dont think my daughter will be making out with her girls lol

my point was that even if they stay at the movie theater you still have no clue what they are doing inside.

GUEST wrote:

<quoted text> She can walk to hastings after the movie is over and i will pick her up there but only becsuse she has called me to ask if its ok.And yes you are thinking she just dosen't know what her daughter is really doing but you are wrong.Maybe if more parents cared and communicated with there children more often you would be as close to yours as i am to mine.

Hastings is not a nightclub or hangout spot. It is a business and the roaming teenagers are a serious problem on the weekends. Even if they are not doing anything "wrong" they still group up and clog the aisles. There is a sign on the door that says "NO LOITERING" and yes, hanging out is loitering. Aside from the occasional energy drink (at night...) they rarely spend any money, therefore they are not customers.

used to wrote:

<quoted text>my point was that even if they stay at the movie theater you still have no clue what they are doing inside.

Yes, you might really be surprised...

been there wrote:

and you think that they are really sitting in there, then you should just go park outside the theater and check. Seriously, I saw girls trying to get picked up by strangers riding by, girls being picked up by strangers, girls sucking helium out of balloons that they just bought at the dollar tree, and then saying inappropriate things to adults walking by, and some kids walking behind the theater in the shadows. I observed all of this in the 30 seconds that it took me to walk to my vehicle. Maybe you should quiz your kid on the movie, but I'm sure they got a ticket just to cover themselves and probably looked up a summary of the movie online before they went.

Why do you care if they get in trouble then its their fault and their parents fault if they don't wanna watch their children then its their purgative.

TryingMyBest wrote:

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Hastings is not a nightclub or hangout spot. It is a business and the roaming teenagers are a serious problem on the weekends. Even if they are not doing anything "wrong" they still group up and clog the aisles. There is a sign on the door that says "NO LOITERING" and yes, hanging out is loitering. Aside from the occasional energy drink (at night...) they rarely spend any money, therefore they are not customers.

are you fing stupid the roaming teenagers are the main business to hastings

All the Hastings employees want to bitch and moan. Someone said the exact same thing on a totally different thread.

mrzingyzang wrote:

<quoted text> Why do you care if they get in trouble then its their fault and their parents fault if they don't wanna watch their children then its their purgative.

That person cares because she saw teenage girls trying to get picked up by strangers! What if something would have happened to one of them?! I'd be concerned if I saw the same thing!