I don’t believe they texted through the entire movie either.
Nobody cares about discrediting you. This isn’t a trial. Again, accepting the story even as told, everyone in the story was a jerk. It started off fine when they asked if you could please accommodate their request to sit next to each other, then everything else that happened after that was pure assholery. If you’re really interested in playing the Germ Police in a public movie theatre, you’re both an asshole and delusional.
Exactly. That is the problem.
Please read for comprehension. I was not talking about arriving 5 minutes after showtime, during all the commercials and crap; I was talking about 5 minutes after the actual movie started running. If I’m going to pay the $$$ they extract for theater admission these days, yes, I want to see the whole movie. So if the movie started 5 minutes ago, I’ll pass and go another time. BUT if for some reason I had to go in anyway (with a group and they still want to go), yes, I would slink in, siddown, and shaddup.
I agree. Just yesterday, I had a complete stranger ask me, as I wheeled past him (we were not engaged in conversation or interaction of any sort), why I was in a wheelchair. :dubious: I didn’t even slow my roll as I said, “because I can’t walk”. WTF. Rude asshole.
This is the second time I am saying this to you.
There were three reasons I did not want to move. All are outlined in my op. Not one, three.
Also, at the moment I was not thinking logistics. I had heard the girl sniffling before the movie began, so I noticed her. By the time the couple came in, I am flabbergasted that someone just interrupted my movie, saying they want my seat.
Again, three reasons, not one. All in the OP.
You know what, I made up every damn detail. I was actually washing my hair that night. :smack:
That’s what SHE said!
And I’m saying that if you eliminated one of those reasons, and admitted that it was a bullshit excuse you’re trying to use to bolster your argument, we’d be more apt to take your side. Just because a list is supposed to have 3 parts doesn’t mean you have to come up with a third one out of whole cloth. Just please don’t use “Hi Opal,” that is a whole other level of cringe.
Basis? No. Was it there, and in uncalled for? Yes.
It makes it all the more interesting being that you were pitted for poor writing skills yourself. And you display them in this very thread.
In that pitting, you were rude and standoffish.
Project much?
Goodness. You sound like a rather discourteous person.
How is it my fault that you are choosing to focus on one of the three reasons, rather than view them as a whole?
I guess it’s where each person comes from – I can’t imagine ever bothering someone like that and so it strikes me as rude when someone else does it. Like talking in the theater, or texting. It’s beyond the realm of what I would do.
And truth be told, if they’re bold enough to do that, I’d be worried about what else they will do – and in this case, they texted and fulfilled that. Like your example of someone asking for the time – if almost every time, it was a pretext to follow up with something more or inappropriate, I would start ignoring it.
Yup. Happily doing someone a favor that requires something dangerously near zero effort on my part is horribly discourteous. God, where’s the putz smiley when you need him?
I am not the germ police.
I gave three reasons. Three. Not one, three. You are focusing on the one you feel to be the least valid, while ignoring the other two completely.
Sheesh. :rolleyes:
If one part of your story doesn’t pass the sniff test, it calls into question all of the rest of your story. You get that right? If you’re wondering why people keep questioning your truthfulness in describing the events of your OP, this is the reason.
It’s how I felt at the time. I don’t know how we can measure that in an internet forum. I have thoughts of a nearby sick person in my head from before the movie began. Now, someone just interrupted my movie, and I acted without premeditation. How could I? They weren’t there yet.
I am not lying, I don’t know how to prove that. I have said time and time again - we either sit closer to her, or move away from the view we prefer.
On top of that, these people just interrupted my movie. And I don’t want to think about logistics or any of this after a movie has begun. So, I didn’t, and just gave a polite " sorry, no". Then they went ballistic.
On a side rant, anybody who willingly goes to a crowded moving heater during cold and flu season when they are contagious, or even have reason to believe they may be contagious, is entitled trash. They need to be forcibly removed from their seats and fed to wolverines. Those who accompany them should be forced to watch the first time. The second time they accompany a potentially contagious person to the movies should be thrown to the wolverines as an appetizer.
This is an excellent post which perfectly described my own “buh?” at all the outrage over what I would consider such an obvious courtesy that it would literally never occur to me to refuse, but I think you’re discounting a fourth possibility that I believe explains many of the responses in this thread: the unsocialized dog in the dog park theory. Happy, socialized dogs go into a group setting tails-a-wagging, confident that they can roll with whatever happens. “Oh, you’re playing with my ball now? Fine, I’m going to chase you! Hey, let’s go eat that dead squirrel!”
Unsocialized dogs are nervous and unsure of themselves, so normal interactions have a way of getting out of hand. They’re the dogs that stake out a corner under a bench and then bite any other dogs who come and sniff them. In people form, they don’t have a natural feel for when basic courtesy blurs into being taken advantage of, so they fall back on technicalities and rules. “I was here first”, “You should have brought your own watch if you wanted to know what time it is”, “I don’t have to give anyone CPR if I don’t want to”, etc. It’s a defense mechanism, borne out of insecurity and a history of having been a doormat and feeling bad about it. To someone who doesn’t fear others, it sounds like insane behavior, but you’re looking at the world through a very different lens.
It also doesn’t help that people like this tend to be unreliable reporters, feeling the need to modify accounts to maximize the wickedness of those they interacted with. Hence the made-up details in the OP’s account of events and the probably-fake dyslexia claim. It’s not lying/trolling so much as telling the story from the standpoint of how it felt to them vs. how it actually happened.
10 pages of this in 2 days? WTF
For the record, the OP did nothing wrong. No matter how nicely someone asks for something, anything, it is a request and should never imply action by existence. Once the request was made, those 2 assholes were morally, legally, spiritually, and philosophically-bound to acquiesce to any reply the OP made