I guess I wasn’t expecting that they had a volume control, at all (which once I say it out loud, is a kind of dumb).
But even more than that, I’m surprised that they were willing to change the volume. I would have guessed that the low level guy who could physically change the dial, would be like “sorry, the rule is I’m not allowed to change the volume.”
It does so happen the answer is “basically yes” (me and a friend) although the way they responded suggested that wasn’t too cruxy. I did phrase in it “could we turn it down, like, one notch?” and when they said yes I asked for “what about like 3 notches?” and it didn’t seem like they even hesitated.
It does so happen the answer is “basically yes” (me and a friend)
I’m now unsurprised.
I was surprised at the idea they were willing to change the conditions for an entire theater at the request of one person. Seems like if the ability to do that were known, it’d create obvious issues, with people with different preferences constantly walking up and asking to revert each other’s requests. I assumed there was no rule against it only because it didn’t actually occur to anyone to do that, and therefore it wasn’t commonly exploited.
If the theater wasn’t actually full of people with potentially different preferences (and that was known to the worker?), then that’s not surprising.
Yeah I agree it’s much less surprising, but, a thing I was surprised by was how immediately/enthusiastically they went for it. Like I came in prepared for a lot of cajoling and and the guy was like “oh yeah for sure!” basically as soon as I started talking.
So, it seemed like there was a lot of slack in the system.
I guess I wasn’t expecting that they had a volume control, at all (which once I say it out loud, is a kind of dumb).
But even more than that, I’m surprised that they were willing to change the volume. I would have guessed that the low level guy who could physically change the dial, would be like “sorry, the rule is I’m not allowed to change the volume.”
Were you the only person in the theater?
It does so happen the answer is “basically yes” (me and a friend) although the way they responded suggested that wasn’t too cruxy. I did phrase in it “could we turn it down, like, one notch?” and when they said yes I asked for “what about like 3 notches?” and it didn’t seem like they even hesitated.
I’m now unsurprised.
I was surprised at the idea they were willing to change the conditions for an entire theater at the request of one person. Seems like if the ability to do that were known, it’d create obvious issues, with people with different preferences constantly walking up and asking to revert each other’s requests. I assumed there was no rule against it only because it didn’t actually occur to anyone to do that, and therefore it wasn’t commonly exploited.
If the theater wasn’t actually full of people with potentially different preferences (and that was known to the worker?), then that’s not surprising.
Yeah I agree it’s much less surprising, but, a thing I was surprised by was how immediately/enthusiastically they went for it. Like I came in prepared for a lot of cajoling and and the guy was like “oh yeah for sure!” basically as soon as I started talking.
So, it seemed like there was a lot of slack in the system.