The only difference between boomers and not-boomers in this regard is boomers go through more device orientations before finding the power button to illuminate the screen.
Boomers? Hardly. That's my parents' generation. They still think you have to fire up a desktop PC to check Facebook. You're thinking of my crowd (Gen X) – and even more so, Millennials. And hey, if my Gen Z girls are anything to go by, it's their generation too.
In my youth films at the cinema were watched through a thick fug of cigarette smoke, were punctuated by the reel being changed or the film breaking, and ended with everybody standing for the National Anthem, so consider yourself fortunate.
I’m pretty bad for always looking at my phone every few minutes but the cinema is one of the few places where I commit to switching it off. (Despite the urge of wanting to know where I know that actor from)
You say that like you are the only one. I have elderly parents and am the primary carer for two young children. I still manage to switch my phone off for 2 hours at the cinema.
No, but all cinema goers agree to the basics of cinema etiquette. My responsibilities are no excuse for ruining someone else's paid enjoyment. If I can't be "offline" for two hours, I'm not going to the cinema.
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"Boomer complaint" is a thing.
And while I'm about it, can folk stop missing out us Gen Xers?! We had it tough, but we're survivers. Don't write us off with our Boomer parents.
Infirm and elderly parents, disabled children, a job that requires emergency on-call support.
It's not rocket science.