A complaint

A rare public complaint: you may remember that on Lulu's birthday we went to the Avalon with a gift certificate and the card had no value.  It had been given as a gift by an upstanding parent of a friend with proof of purchase.  To their credit the theater honored it and even gave OJ another,  smaller gift certificate for the trouble. Today we returned and they would not honor that gc,  saying IT had no value! After an obnoxious managerial powwow the manager said we must have used the card (this was our first time back) but then honored it with a not so subtle implication that we were dishonest.  I shop local and am loathe to go elsewhere, but I will NEVER purchase or accept a gc from them again,  and I strongly urge all of you to practice the same caution.