Last Update a comment was made about the lady in the theater who maced a complainer because she was texting. Comment was made that local guru of etiquette, Amy Alcon, undoubtedly would have a comment on that one.

Yes, she did. In fact, she had talked with David Lazarus of LA Times the guy who commented on the event.

As a result of all this, Amy has agreed to allow an excerpt of her book be printed in the Update.

If you want, please feel free to include this excerpt from the cellphone chapter of my book in your next newsletter (©Amy Alkon, “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014). Here’s a link to the book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1fFtWFy

I offer many solutions for how to engage with and stop the cellboors in the rest of the book, but I also temper my advice with realism, and tapping somebody on their phone at the movies on the shoulder and asking them to stop will rarely result in them doing it and will sometimes result in them getting violent on you.

• When you discover you’ve spent $12 or more for tickets to Raging Bullshit at the movies, it’s tempting to lean over and say something to the cellboors diverting your attention from the movie with their call or the glow of their phone while they text or check their e-mail, but it’s usually futile. It’s rare that somebody’s doing this because they just aren’t mindful. They usually know they’re being rude, and they don’t care. Go get an usher to stop them—somebody with the power to throw them out.

Some theaters are more proactive than others in evicting cellboors. Let’s all thank them and beg others to hop on their bandwagon. The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, is one of these theaters, starting their movies with a message warning patrons that they don’t “tolerate people that talk or text in the theater” and that when somebody doesn’t follow the rules, they do, “in fact, kick their asses out.”

Some of their moviegoers must think they’re bluffing. Here’s an excerpt from an awesomely irate voicemail (with fabulously fractured phonetics) that a woman left for the Alamo Drafthouse staff, who turned it into a YouTube video:

So EXCUSE ME for using MY phone in USA MAGNITED STATES OF AMERICA! where yer-you are FREE to TEXT in a THE-A-TER! . . .
I’ve texted in ALL the other theaters in Austin, and no one ever gave a fuck. . . . I will never be comin’ back to your “Alamo Drafthouse” or whatever. . . . I’m gonna tell EVERYONE about how SHITTY you are . . . . Thanks for takin’ my money, ASSHOLE!

The Alamo Drafthouse, in text on-screen in the video, replied:

You’re welcome! Thanks for not coming back to the Alamo, texter!