Silent Cell Phones (2004-07-01)
I have a friend whose husband works in a movie theater in Shinjuku (
). The company used to give out tons of movie passes to
its employees until six months ago. But for over three years I'd
been watching free movies thanks to all those passes I got from my
friend. If you know how expensive it is to go to the movies here,
you'll understand what an excellent profit I had raked.Anyway what I'm saying is I've been to many movies in the past
years, at least twice a month. During those times never did I
hear a cell phone ring
once during a movie. I'd never seen anyone rush out the theater
or whisper into a phone while a movie was running either. So I
believe people dutifully follow the advice from the theater and turn
off their phones instead of switching them to
the vibration mode. Pretty impressive good manners observed by
movie goers here.
By the way, it costs 1800 Yen for a movie ticket, that is about US$17.50.
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