The problem here is your entitled ass. You are not entitled to sit next to the person you want. You certainly are not entitlked to sit next to the person you want in the exact row you want if it is occupied when vast tracts of other seats are open,You Think your desire for enjoying the movie(sitting next to X) Out weighs my desire for for enjoying the movie by having a buffer seat. You have arbitrarily decided that your wants out weight mine, and they don’t. That is the very definition of of childish selfishness and unsocial behavior. I should give up my comfort because your special snowflake entitled ass comes waltzing in and decides you want something that is not yours. And Then calling people assholes for not giving it to your petulant ass.
My desire to enjoy the movie my way is every bit as valid as yours, and if I made the effort to get there early, and you couldn’t be bothered to be there on time, I win. Game, set Match, that’s the rules our society decided on.
Everybody who buys a ticket at a normal theater is entitled to one unspecified seat, no more no less.
Exactly. Asimovian had this thread pegged at the very beginning, and it’s been appalling how many self entitled assholes have come out of the woodwork to voice their opinions, bashing the OP in this thread.
It’s easy to see where the divide is - those of us who when showing up late and movie is already in progress, either don’t want to disturb others already seated in the theater -OR -not only think nothing of disrupting the movie in progress but feel entitled for someone to move out of their way to give them prime seats.
It’s easy to read this thread and see who’s who - either courteous, thoughtful people or brash, helpy-selfy bully types who think the world should revolve around them.
Showing up late and disrupting the movie was rude behavior and those demonstrating that kind of behavior should not be rewarded for it - which they would have been had the OP acquiesced to their request to “move over”.
Latecomers furthermore proved that they were that kind of people by apparently continuing to be disruptive throughout the film. Doesn’t that aspect of the story mean anything to those that oppose the actions of the OP? Doesn’t that matter?
I support the OP 100%. And those that don’t, get off your high horses and get some values. Stop trying to turn it around, imply that it’s your rude asses that have the values and people like the OP do not. And those of you who continue to dig at the language usage mistakes are bottom of the barrel. You people don’t seem to know how bad you make yourselves look.
Please do not insult the non-Christian members of this board with your assumptions that your personal belief system has any bearing on the discussion of manners and social mores.
If the theater was packed and the only seats available were the front two neck-breaker rows: I’d scoot over without hesitating. Since there were other seats available that would allow the group to sit together, I agree with the OP. Her reasons for not moving are immaterial; she may be too short to see over a tall person’s head, prefer to sit in a seat in which the moron behind her isn’t kicking, saving the seat for a friend at the snack counter, or just flat prefer a buffer space. The late-comers interrupting a film in progress don’t need an explanation, they need to pick another open area to occupy.
And on top of that, I am really wondering… if the late couple had came and sat in the buffer seats, how would you react OP? Would you offer them to change your seat so they could sit next to each other.
By the attitude of the OP, it seems like she wouldn’t.
You are right; she didn’t pay for 4 seats, so the couple had the right to sit in the buffer seats. But it would be a total assholic move if the OP still wouldn’t let them sit togrther even after realizing that they were a couple.
We have rights to do many things; doesn’t mean we should do them.
I also have an inkling that the OP probably did this to show how assertive women are. I feel like this was done to also present feminism. I don’t know. I may be wrong. But by just examining the situation, it seems like the OP is one of those feminist women who feel like they need to show how strong they are.
If all cinema seats are exactly the same, then why didn’t the couple simply move to one of the 5 rows which had no one occupying them, instead of trying to bully the OP into moving?
I answered your first question already, when Pundit Lisa asked. I would not have cared if they sat in those seats. Please read the thread before you ask questions that have long been answered.
