Gibberish. I formed my opinion of the OP when I read it. Your responses didn’t influence my opinion of the OP at all. They did influence my opinion of your character. And my opinion is you indeed are an asshole. It doesn’t invalidate your opinion. I can see your side of the issue. I concede you have a right to express your opinion. I don’t have to like the manner in which you express it, though. You come across every bit as entitled as the douchenozzles who swore at mademoiselle when they didn’t get their way, then proceeded to talk and text through the movie.
Oh, well I don’t really care about your opinion of me, but thanks for sharing. I just thought it was odd that you brought up people’s responses as if that has anything to do with the price of tea. Carry on.
I don’t really see what one has to do with the other, Nzinga. MOL has been acting like this long before we hit the pit. MOL was acting the same way in IMHO.
I’m baffled by the notion of assigned seats at a movie theater. I’m short, have short kids, and often have to move when taller people invariably end up in front of us. (Staking out seats early makes no difference; taller people never bother to see who they’re blocking when they choose their seats.) Often I’ll scout out other shorties and sit behind them. But with assigned seats, the option of us scooting over to unobstructed seats before others take them is gone.
My opinion on the OP: it probably depends on the custom in the area she lives in. Where I am, anyone who leaves buffer seats knows ahead of time they may be expected to move. You either don’t leave a buffer seat when you sit down, or you do leave one but know you may not get to keep it if it gets too crowded. If you think the movie will be crowded, there’s no sense in leaving a buffer seat because you know you’ll have to scoot over anyway. No one would consider it a particularly unreasonable request, not even just 5 minutes into the movie. That’s how festival seating works. If the vacant seats were far apart, or if it were any further into the movie, it would definitely be more unreasonable, though. I suspect this is the norm in any crowded urban area theater.
I had to look that word up. On the plus side I’ve just pushed my IQ to around 243 or so (and frankly that’s scaring me a little bit, at some point I may have to petition the SDMB for a special forum for those of us in the mid to high 200’s).
I see people sitting in them even when there’s room elsewhere, so I guess someone likes them. Regardless, if you don’t fancy the seating choices available to you when you arrive, it is perfectly understandable that you may choose another viewing. That is undoubtably the most courteous move available to you.
But if I show up late and try to strongarm earlier people out of their fair-gotten sixth-row seats, well, that’s a dick move, no two ways about it. If people give up their seats for me, they’re being pretty accomodating… but even if they don’t budge, I’m one being rude.
So you think in a poll that most people would say the first 5 rows are just as desirable as the last 20?
If so I would bet you 2,000,000,000 internet dollars that most people don’t agree with you.
And the fact that you would even think you could be correct with that idea makes me wonder if I should petition the SDMB for a special forum for those with IQ between 50 and 70. (note: I assume you have an IQ of at least 50 because you seem to be operating a keyboard ok).
Well, it was a bit unnatural to respond to my comment in the way you did. It couldn’t come across as a negative to me given the nature of my comment, so that left a few options, one of which is that you didn’t realize.
I laid the trap assuming 28% chance I might get something.
Well it wasn’t clear you were interested in a rational discussion because your comment appeared to be ignoring the reality that a small minority could be ok with something but that doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority are not.
But, I’m happy to ignore which forum we are in, so lets start with your comment about people sitting in the first 5 rows.
What percentage of people do you think the first 5 rows are a non-issue, meaning that they either prefer them or have a neutral opinion of using them?
Admittedly I don’t spend that much time here, but when I have been here I have often read intelligent discussion mixed with some actual entertaining and witty insults. Not this time. This time I see a group that act like playground bullies self-affirming each other’s specialness. And they are trying to convince those who can communicate without calling each “cunt” on what is polite behavior.
You are right, I don’t need to spend any time here; no one made me open the thread. But you are wrong to declare unilaterally that being in The Pit requires one to be as pathetic as some are coming off here to me. Not they do, or should, care about my assessment of them, any more than I give a rat’s ass about their thoughts about me.
Brynda that was the “You’re our Trig Palin” line I was referencing.
-DSeid. Never gifted, never was. And if being gifted meant acting like the asses here, happy to be less than a genius.
If you magically knew the reasons why the people were late, are there any reasons that would make you more sympathetic?
Family emergency?
Fandango system problem?
Accidentally went into the wrong theater because they misheard which number it’s in?
Credit card declined due to fraud, needed to go to cash machine?
etc.
Alternate question: what if they weren’t late (as in lights are still on) but same conditions with seating, would you still not move?
This is the reasoning I was using. You need to understand that the late comers were already probably upset. It could have been any reason.
On top of that it is hard to get anywhere in time with the ridiculously low speed limits we have. Seriously, the government needs to make them more reasonable.
Anyways, I think your problem is your lack of sympathy. If you had felt something for them, maybe things would have gone better.
RaftPeople, dont tease her about anything else because I bet she can barely contain of herself. Don’t talk about other things with her like IQ and tease her because she is already upset enough.