That is correct. It was a dinner date and movie, with just my SO.
Ah, OK. Thanks.
ETA: I’ve looked at it a few times now, and I think your OP can be read both ways.
What analogy? Someone was asking me a question and I answered it.
You missed my point. You claim your experience is universal; that people ask others to move all the time. My point: nope, that hasn’t happened to me, so it ain’t universal.
No problem. 
just want the facts to be correct.
I took a bit of a look at Kimmy’s other posts. I would recommend others do the same. This is their MO.
Sorry about the confusion, I can see what you mean.
For the record, I did not know the people on our sides. I agree if I did, and we were holding buffer seats with them, that would have been wrong.
You can piss about in the concession stand if you want to sit after the previews start. That has nothing to do with (theoretically) having to buy a ticket before the official start time. I’m objecting to the practice of selling a ticket for the 3:15 show when it’s already 3:30. There’s not a real good chance that those people will be butts-in-seats before the film starts.
Although frankly, once the house lights dim, out of courtesy everyone should be butts-in-seats already anyway. And once the film actually starts, I’d pay a buck extra to have ushers refuse entry at that point.
I was at the movies yesterday and the previews were nowhere near half an hour long. Even though we got there half an hour early.
Maybe nobody wants to sit next to you because you’re annoying.
Seriously now, what is the point of this stupid little nitpick? Jesus, when I say something happens “all the time” I don’t mean it’s constantly happening to everyone always. Most of the time I go to the bar, movie, or am on a plane, people don’t ask me to move over so they can sit by their sister, or whoever, but it’s common enough that it’s not a foreign concept and it’s nothing I think twice about. Are you really harping over my use of the phrase “all the time,” thinking that means I somehow reckon I speak for the universe? You know what else happens “all the time”? People get hair cuts, nail polish chips, internet connections go down, people receive poor customer service, people receive great customer service, people buy pants at the mall. Stating this doesn’t mean I’m declaring these things universal. Jesus, get a grip.
Now I hate myself for having responded to the stupidest post in this thread. *This *thread! The one where someone advocated retaliation farting!
Given that 1 reason was shown to be logically impossible to be a valid reason, why do you keep claiming it was a reason?
I don’t, others do. In fact, I have said many times that there was more than one reason.
And all three were were valid to me.
Now I hate myself for having responded to the stupidest post in this thread. *This *thread! The one where someone advocated retaliation farting!
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OK, I’ll say it. ***Retaliation Farting ********* would be a great name for a band.
Woooo, I came home and found this thread delivering like dominoes!!! I am cracking uppppp. Oh, I love you dopers so much, man, I can’t tell you.
People are killing me talking about ‘I’m already settled in’. Folks talking about kicking off their shoes and being all ‘comfy cozy’ and all that. You aint home, son! Haaaaaa! WTF. Put your shoes on and move your ass.
ETA: MOL, thanks for my new sig. I have had to deal with the whole, “I notice you think you speak for everyone” crap too.
The reason my point matters is that you claimed that asking the OP to move in a theater that is not full is not rude because it happens all the time. I believe it was a rude request because it does not happen all the time. Equally valid life experiences, but you think only yours matters. You said: "The OP was acting like a giant dickhead, end of story. Anyone who disagrees either is a dickhead too, or doesn’t go outside enough to know what the rest of us all call well-adjusted social behaviors. " When I "go outside, " people don’t ask me to move seats, so I think it is rude. It isn’t because I don’t go outside. Seriously, this is exactly what you did in the online dating thread. My experience is the TRUTH, people! Yours does not matter!!!
Oh, no, I see where you’re getting tripped up. I’m not saying my experience is the truth. I’m saying my opinion is the truth, because it is. If you won’t move, you’re an asshole, and I don’t really care what your experiences have been. Hope that clears it up.
Too much fucking drama.
I hope none of the parties involved enjoyed the got’damn movie.
Nah, I’ll stay seated there. You can split up your party, mama.
No problem. BUT PUT YOUR SHOES ON.
mademoiselle presents us with a situationin IMHO, where she was sick for a few days and finally had recovered from her sickness so she and her boyfriend decided to go on an outing - a dinner and a movie.
She speaks about how she and her companion arrived at the theater 30 minutes early, and how the theater began to fill up and by the time the movie was playing, only the first five rows were mostly open. She and her SO both had empty seats on their respective sides so it looked like this: ^^ (where * represents an empty seat and ^ represents mademoiselle and her SO).
Now the rest I am actually going to quote from the original thread so that I don’t change anything from how she explained it:
So mademoiselle, you try to justify not moving by saying that if you were to move, you would be sitting next to sick people.
But any person with common sense knows that this is not an excuse because you could have easily moved to the other side so that the other couple would sit next to the sick person. As others have said, you probably just came up with this excuse because you’re too selfish to give up your buffer seats.
I understand that their behavior after you refused was completely unacceptable, but really? How hard is it to get up and move two seats. It was a tiny favor. It’s common courtesy to optimize row usage when the theater is filled. She argues, “There were plenty of seats open (the fifth row). Why couldn’t they sit there?” Then she also follows with the fact that the fifth row is not uncomfortable and you don’t have to angle your had up. Then why don’t you go and sit in the fifth row, mademoiselle? That’s not a valid argument. Like others have said, almost anyone else would have just gotten their ass up and moved. It was almost an effortless move. Yes, they behaved rudely, but a good chunk of the fault was yours.
You say that you didn’t have to move? There are many things that you don’t “have” to do, but it’s just a common courtesy to do them. You don’t have to tip the pizza delivery guy, or hold the door open for someone if they’re just approaching you, right? But you do them anyway… This a similar kind of thing. It’s common courtesy to optimize the row usage at least in the back rows. There four seats and two couples should have been able to sat there. You should have been able to collaborate with them. You didn’t pay for four seats; you paid for two.
Now I didn’t feel too opposed to the OP until the thread progressed. She posts this in IMHO and disagrees and neglects any opinion that doesn’t agree with her. On top of that, she knows her behavior was questionable; why else would she post this thread? If she had truly believed that her behavior was correct, she wouldn’t feel the need to post a thread about this. And if she was just going to make a declarative statement like she did in her title, “I am not giving up my seat,” then she should have posted this in MPSIMS. She posted this in IMHO, and got the opinions and advice any normal thread would. Yet, she declined any advice that didn’t agree with her. You actually have to go through the thread to see what I mean.
As a side note, numerous posters have commented on your use of “should of” and “could of”, yet you keep making the same mistake over and over again. You don’t make the same mistake more than once, but you have made the mistake countless number of times!
I also adore the Dope, but for different reasons. It amuses me to no end to see people constantly claim something no matter how many times it’s been proven to be incorrect (“There were buffer seats!”), how important something is when it’s really not (like it being a frigging movie, not your loved one’s funeral), why something should happen when it’s not necessary (the latecomers just have to sit together so they can… text? talk? – hmmmm) and to watch one set of opinions trump another because SOMEONE SAID SO. Plus, there must be lying. Don’t forget the lying.
Heh.
Stay the same, Dopers! You crazy kids are the gift that always keeps on giving!!
Dammit. Didn’t make the edit and I forgot to mention the ‘strained analogy’ part. No thread would be complete without it and I’m really glad this thread isn’t missing it. Yay!