Is it an indication of the state of the British education system or am I expecting too much?
Two 12 year old girls bored and looking for something do wander into the cinema to find out what we are showing. I tell them and they ask the question “Who’s King Arthur?”
Fuck me. I’m dumbfounded. “You know King Arthur, knights of the round table, Merlin the magician, Lancelot.”
How can they not know who King Arthur is. But as I say am I expecting too much, how many people in this country actually do know who he is.
So anyway they go in to watch it. About half an hour later one of the girls comes out to buy some popcorn. Because we are so fucking chronically understaffed I have to serve her. She is a little on the chubby size and she knows it because when she asks for a large popcorn I repeat it just to be sure I heard correctly but she replies “It isn’t just for me. It’s for my friend as well” like I’d implied that she was fat and greedy or something.
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