Inflexible People

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, perhaps they arrived early and chose those particular seats for a reason, and didn't feel like moving to accomodate latecomers - especially after being heckled? I know when I was pregnant the only way I could go to a movie was to sit in an end seat so I could make multiple trips to the restroom without making people stand up for me each time. Why did the other couple feel entitled to arrive late and be accomodated?

I completely agree with this. A few years ago when I was finishing up finals, LSAT, my grandma had just died and I was fighting a cold...a lot all at once...so I went to a movie to decompress and escape for 2 lousy hours. It was just before Christmas and the theater was full, though there were lots of seats toward the front. A couple came in an asked my to move so they could sit together. I did move but then the man REPEATEDLY got up and blocked my view, came back, got up...several times in the first 20 min. The girl half of the pair said "sorry" and I said "it's getting old" then she copped a big attitude about how I should just be grateful he didn't puke on me. Seriously? If he's puking shouldn't he be at home and not at a chick flick bothering people who managed to arrive on time and pick their seats? I had already done them the courtesy of moving when there were other seats they could have sat in even if they weren't preferable (they were closer to the bathroom FWIW.) Anyway, people who arrive late and then expect people to move for them are the ones who are wrong in my opinion. I would NEVER have the balls to arrive late or even after the theater was full but the movie hadn't started and then ask someone else to move to accommodate me. That's THOR! (The height of rudeness.) If you are late you take what is left. Besides that OP, you don't know what kind of day those people had. Why be the one to throw them under the bus? Did it make people feel superior to heckle and bully them? You are accusing the people who were there first of the very behavior the rest of the patrons participated in. Lead by example and get there earlier next time.

Exactly right PP!!!!

[Anonymous]

Maybe it was cultural for them? I know you said they were "Asian" - which could really be anything, but maybe their religous beliefs don't allow them to touch other people (hence the seat), maybe you smell bad and he didn't want to sit next to you (which is why they moved when you did)...

Who the hell knows?

But, if a whole theater of people were chanting at me, I'd probably give them the finger.