• IF I’d used a Ouija board I might have known!

Unfortunately the Interweb, not easily accessed by me and many of my age had all the facts, I later learned, and oh boy what a labyrinthine experience the Odeon website is!

Scrolling down what feels like the M1 and M6 is a combination of ifs, buts, maybes and exceptions for different ages, types of groups weights, heights, seat types, days, hours in a day, etc etc etc.

I defy anyone to get through this list without falling asleep. Buying the cheapest railway ticket for a journey is easier.

So, I found myself in a near empty screening of an Agatha Christie film having been divested of the grand sum of £19.50 on a rainy afternoon. It’s cheaper to buy the ticket online, I’m told.

We charge more if you just drop in on the day. Is this how the young folks are getting their revenge for The Triple Lock?

I don’t know how the other four people in this vast empty room had paid? Maybe they had saved themselves £2 off the ticket price by buying online, but then they would also have been charged £1 for the processing of that ticket.

I am writing to Mark Jonathan Way, the Odeon’s CEO to ask him for the raison d’être behind this astonishing business plan of his and to advise him to be sure to use my £19.50 carefully.

I’d hate to think he’d squander it.

ELAINE CHAMBERS
an Agatha Christie fan, NW3