Someone asked people who’ve worked in cinemas about the ‘craziest things’ they’d witnessed – 19 horrors that weren’t confined to the big screen

11.

‘Couple had an absolute toddler-sized meltdown in the lobby because we wouldn’t let them in with a whole ass set meal of Chinese food. I’m talking throwing themselves on the floor, flailing and wailing.’
–spacetimebear

12.

‘Used tampon stuffed down the side of a seat. Must have been a riveting film!’
–davofitz1982

13.

‘Aluminium telescopic nunchucks. After Odeon Silver Screen (for OAPs) in Leicester, early 00’s.’
–slimstumpus

14.

‘One of my friends in college worked at a cinema, she was cleaning out the Ladies and found a positive pregnancy test.’
–Magpie213

15.

‘I have found lots of epipens, inhalers, sunglasses, socks, unopened bags of chocolate and sweets, hats etc. The most disgusting thing we find on an alarmingly regular basis is chewed off fingernails, usually in the cup holders.’
–carlitobrigantes

16.

‘Regularly used to find huge clumps of human hair.’
–ClaryClarysage

17.

‘I’m a cleaner and agree 100% women’s toilets are always worse then mens, in 75% of toilets I always found Lisa is a shank or whore written on the mirrors… poor Lisa.’
–ukguy619

18.

‘I used to work on the cinema IT system. One time a manager told me that a woman had come up to him and said “A mother just let her child urinate in the aisle, I can’t believe you LET her do that!”’
–maxscarletto

19.

‘Basically, if you work in a cinema you are going to be subject to every bodily fluid going, and you are more than likely going to be the one cleaning it up, all the whole earning pennies over minimum wage.

‘I’ve had an elderly lady get fucking launched across the corridor by one of the bathroom doors when it closed on her. I had death threats. A couple of my colleagues got physically assaulted. I had to stop a fight between two coked up ladies. Working in a cinema isn’t for the faint of heart.’
–Nosferado-not

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