It’s conditional on the theater being full. Jesus. It’s your quotation. Did you read it?
Presumably, if there had been 2 available seats close together other than the OP’s, the couple would have tried to get them rather than settling for the 5th row. Which tells me that most of the moviegoers had enough sense not to try to hoard buffer seats in the first place.
5 crappy rows in front is “full”.
The other person being an asshole doesn’t relieve you of your social obligation not to be an asshole.
Like I said before, I often read humorous insults mixed with some actual discussion in The Pit. Just not this time. Retard as a laugh getter? Really?
Yeah, I admit, you probably won’t get the best insult jokes from me either. I was going for a The Onion “Ask The …” vibe and found some humor in AU’s cluelessness … until I found out he is just 15. I thought it was funny but YMMV.
Yes. Full. No one disputes that. Seats available but not “ideal” ones is NOT full. This theater was not full. Please also note how “Modern Manners Guy” is very aware that asking people to move is asking a favor of them. A favor that is reasonable to assent to and one that deserves, in his words, a very humble thank you, if granted.
Um no we do not. Only if the theater is likely FULL, sold out or nearly so. No crappy seat bit. Five front rows empty IS NOT FULL. OTOH from the same search you ran we have this
Bolding mine.
Do you have anything to back this up, other than your opinon? Because faithfool did the numbers, and in this very thread, the majority think I did nothing wrong.
Hey, don’t conjure me back up. I’m just the researcher who had to be explained to that everyone was just joking, ya dickhead. I’m off to find a another thread where folks intrinsically understand that different people do things differently without it being THE WORSTEST THING EVAR1!11one
Right all around. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve approached the bar, for example, and someone with buffer seats will say to me and my drinking mate, “Hey, do you two wanna sit down?” Then we say, “That’d be great. Thanks so much,” and then they say, “Sure, no problem,” and the conversation is over. Sometimes you don’t even have to ask, people will just offer. And then when people do ask, every single time in my existence, at the bar or movie theatre or comedy show or wherever, the person always, 100% of the time, zero exceptions ever, moves over. It literally never even occurred to me that someone would refuse.
Also, you’re right about the first rows barely even counting as seats, but you know some clowns are thinking “Well as long as there were two available seats anywhere in the theatre, then I don’t have to move into the available seats next to me.” Right, we’ve already established that you don’t have to do shit but pay taxes and die, but one way is the polite way that everybody else does, requires pretty much no effort at all on your part, makes everybody happy, and the other way is the stubborn “I don’t have to, you can’t make me, nyah nyah nyah!” way.
Here’s the thing, mon ami. Like I said 100 pages ago, anyone who won’t move is either a petulant prick, or doesn’t get enough fresh air to understand the way people operate. The more I read this thread, it seems like most of the respondents here who would refuse to move probably aren’t jerks, but are really just socially clueless. Seriously, whatsherbucket flat out said she feels like she’s being suckered when someone asks her to move down one. What? How crazy is that on a scale of 1-10? What has to be going on in your head to think that way? Nobody is trying to take advantage of you. Dude just wants to sit next to his girlfriend, Jesus.
Just because someone does not move when there are other seats available, does not make them a prick. Mean old lady, it’s not your fault.
Oh, you mean like:
“eins zwei drei vier, vielen Juden toten hier!”
Oooookay… <slowly backs away>…
Isn’t it creepy if a man sits next to a woman in a empty movie theatre with no assigned seating?
I’d also move if there were no other seats but next to me, but I think not wanting to sit in proximity to strangers when there are alternatives is a fairly common thing. Maybe not ubiquitous, but common.
Yes, it is. What does that have to do with anything, dumbshit?
Not in any theatre I’ve been in. Give a choice between the front and sitting next to people, most people choose people, hence the empty front rows from the start of the thread vs them being randomly scattered.
Otara
Use your manners, child. I was obviously referring to mean old lady’s post.
Well, at that point, it’s OP’s discomfort at being crammed between a bunch of strangers vs latecomer’s discomfort at being stuck in a row nearer the screen. Who loses?
Both if they both act like idiots. They could have just sat on either side of her, and then everyone could have had a long uncomfortable movie.
She was basically relying on them being less bloody minded than her, and lost.
Otara
Mr. Goalpost? Hi. I can see you are very comfortable where you are, but I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind moving over a bit? How far? Um, about five rows? What? You won’t? Why the hell not? What do you mean “full means full”? Full means what I and my fellow true shamans of social understanding want it to mean. It’s a simple fucking request. Just take a few seconds to shift over and we can all get on with our lives. Well, fuck you then! I hope you and all of your extended family die in a fire! What a cunt lacking all social understanding and tact you are!
They were less bloody minded because the op did not move.
Talk about slippery slope. What would you have done? -> It’s a matter of courtesy -> It’s a matter of common decency -> It’s a matter of basic human empathy -> It’s a matter of if you’re of the human species or an unsocialized subspecies -> It’s a matter of if you have a soul -> Satan vs God in the ultimate showdown of good vs evil.
MPSIMS - I held a door open today for a mom but didn’t wait for her entire family to file through and it started closing in on her 2nd eldest. Doomed to hell or merely unsocialized dog? I read at above grade level but my spatial recognition does need work and I’m allergic to shellfish and ragweed but wasn’t properly diagnosed until recently. I’m not white and the lady and her family were full white. There were other doors to walk through, but on the left, opposite of convention in the US. Thoughts?