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Norelco AA2!?!

Brenkert with a Jaxlight!?!

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Replacement intermittents that are extremely loud and can even be heard in the office across the booth.

Seeing cups or other concession objects obstructing the projector port glass (this of course, only pertains to those ports glass windows that are set low enough {or from another point of view, back rows that are too close to the port window} for a person in the back row to reach the recess.)

Dumb ass customers that feel the need to put their hand, with middle finger extended, in the path of the projector's light beam (also only pertaining to low set port glass windows).

Port glass windows set too close to the back row.

Transmissions from various fast food establishments that your walkie can pick up.

Getting a report from the one customer in the building that thinks your watch is two minutes too fast.

Moving prints. Period.

Getting a radio call saying there is no picture only to find out that it is the defective dowser plate sticking (because it is made of a material that melts like butter when exposed to a 4K lamp for more than five seconds at a time) in a brand of projector which shall remain nameless.

Fire alarms.

Any booth having to do with AMC.

A certain digital format which shall remain nameless.

Finding that certain tool cabinets have been locked and I don't have a key.

People asking for tools that I know I'll never see again if I loan them.

When the power grid that services the theatre goes out for two hours.

And the bitch list could go on and on.

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The man with the magic hands.

Your list is great! I never once had a problem with drink cups, etc in the projector port, though. I guess I was lucky. Many MANY times I caught patrons doing the "middle finger shadow puppet " during credits in the projector beam. Many times they would turn around and find me mimicking their shadow puppet right at them. If they were the only ones left in the auditorium, I would just close the hand douser, mute the sound and walk away.

With our old walkies at the Chinese, they could sometimes hear me at Bowles Crossing 12, which was 23 miles away from my theater! I could not hear them. This was proved to me one night when I came home to find an MP3 of something I said a few hours earlier on the walkie. And I know the guy (the projectionist at Bowles) wasn't sitting out in the parking lot recording me because I could hear Bowles booth noise in the background and I knew he worked that evening.

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Dwayne, when I worked at Cinemark (ugh!) we use to pick up the Wendy's 2 miles down and various apartment maintenance workers. I thought it was cool because somehow, I managed to order food at Wendy's over the radio. Not including the number of arguments my Manager got into with the maintenance workers over the radio. That always seemed to entertain me. Although, this one time the maintenance workers decided to play the "Sanford and Son" theme song over the radio which I felt was more enjoyable than listening to the CRAP that Cinemark decides to put in their Non-Sync. It was either that or the porno clips that they played over the radio as well.

Annoying things hmmm...let's see:
Managers or employees that think they know more than you.

The boss wanting you to train managers on how to run the booth.

Mono

People that don't work here think that somehow they belong in the booth.

I would say static but because we use FilmGuard I don't even know what that is.

Smelly trashcans

People trying to talk to you through the port hole.

Pre-show commercials.

Opaque splicing Tape.

Tools left out.

Purple pair of panties left on port hole.

uniforms.

People not responding to you on the radio.

People that cut you off on the radio.

People that push the talk button on the radio repeatedly to get a long series of clicking for others to hear, or other wierd sound effects.

DLP(ugh!what a piece of CRAP!)

I will have to think of more later.

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I'd rather listen to good mono (Mono done right?) than bad stereo ANY DAY. and I know Scott Norwood and others will agree with me.

I didn't realize laser pointers were a problem in the booth.

"I didn't realize that laser pointers were a problem in the booth."

Well yeah! Who do you think is responsible? Someone in the audience? NO!

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