(This would be an example for a problem I had last year. Everyone let me know what you think…!)
What: Odor
Where: Regal Cinemas, New Roc City – New Rochelle, NY
When: 10/30/06
Movie: Halloween (1978) screening
Description:
Horrific odor at 8:00 pm sold-out screening of the original Halloween. Odor seemed concentrated somewhere between rows 3-5 on the right-hand side of the theater and became stronger as film began. Wife and I buried our heads inside our own shirts as make-shift gas masks but odor still permeated. Left at about the 30 minute mark.
Complained to management staff who were unsurprisingly clueless. Was forced to describe odor repeatedly as I moved up the chain of command (real examples: “like someone was slaughtering a live cow in the theater”, “like someone had to use the bathroom horribly, but didn’t leave their seat”). Finally received full refund and NO APOLOGY.
The length of the theater name causes the tags box to overrun its predefined width. I like the idea of the theater chain, but perhaps just name the post the title of the theater and people will have to do with just selecting their location?
By: Joe Webb on August 17, 2007
at 12:52 pm
I don’t know what that means… does it look messed up on your display?
By: lesterg on August 17, 2007
at 12:59 pm
I see what you mean, Joe. I think it’s probably best simply to leave the theater name out of the categories, and let people look them up by geography or chain.
By: Brian on August 17, 2007
at 1:29 pm
Ok, I understand the problem now. Hmm…that stinks.
I’d love to be able to click a button to easily find other offenses at a single theater…but if there’s no workaround, the city/chain will have to do.
By: lesterg on August 17, 2007
at 1:33 pm
I’m sure there is a workaround, but probably one that requires us to buy our own site with full freedom. There may be a way to trick some of the other Widgets to do it…or maybe we go to a tag cloud instead of a drop down box?
By: Joe Webb on August 17, 2007
at 1:56 pm
Oooh, like the new layout.
By: lesterg on August 17, 2007
at 2:18 pm
In terms of the tags, we can use the theater name in the titles for right now. If we ever wanted to get more functionality, it would be easy enough to move elsewhere down the line.
By: lesterg on August 17, 2007
at 2:21 pm
The map kit by platial has enormous possibilites.
Anyone can add a site (theater) by address and when you click on it you can add a description and comments. Another weapon in our arsenal?
By: Joe Webb on August 17, 2007
at 2:35 pm
I’m going to play with it. Added the theater I complained about and tried including a link to my comments…not a huge fan of the way it turned out.
By: lesterg on August 17, 2007
at 3:11 pm
I was thinking of having it be a way for others to respond as well. It doesn’t work so great as a sidebar item, but the big map is better…It also only seems to work right from the main page?
And as far as layouts go, the last one was “Misty Look” and this one is “Blix.” The only other two that seemed remotely passable were “Ocean Mist” and “regulus”. Feel free to play around with those as well….
By: Joe Webb on August 17, 2007
at 4:35 pm
Yeah…I thought the author name was on here last time I visited as well….hmmm
By: Joe Webb on August 24, 2007
at 8:07 am
Author name seems to be back. We just need to figure out the categories and tags stuff.
How would everyone feel about including a web link to the specific theater in your post? I’d think that would help folks find this place in a search…
By: lesterg on August 25, 2007
at 3:26 pm
It looks like only I can edit the map. It was just a “try for fun” kind of thing. If it gets too tedious, it’s easily deletable.
Also, what happened to post titles being the theater name? I’ll be writing one up on Saturday…I’m hitting up 3:10 to Yuma at the local theater and will be looking at lighting, cleanliness and things of that nature.
By: Joe Webb on September 6, 2007
at 1:47 pm