Wait: How'd I End Up the Bad Guy in This Play?!

Don’t you just hate it when someone’s phone keeps ringing at the movie theater? And then someone tells them to shut it off and they don’t? 

You know the drill. Inevitably, an irate movie patron will try to choke the owner of the ringing phone. Then the police show up and before you know it, you missed an important plot twist in “Tower Heist.” 

Sheesh. It’s like some people just don’t have any respect for Eddie Murphy movies anymore. 

That’s how a ringing phone was finally silenced at the Majestic Bay Theatres in Ballard last week. 

KOMO News reports police were called to the theater after a series of strange events unfolded, culminating in a disgruntled patron trying to choke a man who was talking to himself and letting his phone ring during a 5 p.m. showing of “Tower Heist.”

Look, I wasn't disgruntled. He was letting his cell phone ring and talking throughout the movie. Under the circumstances, I believe I was just the right amount of gruntled.

What's sad is this whole 30-second choke-a-thon could have been avoided. Dude could have turned off his cell phone when he was asked politely. Barring that — and he did bar that — dude could have tapped out.

I mean, I'm not a monster.