I'm not giving up my seat

Michelle Obama was asked to move over a seat. This was her reaction.

Unless they were bleeding and/or armed, I can’t imagine I’d have even responded to a stranger who started asking me questions during a movie. Talking during a movie is rude - asking someone trivial questions is worse, because you’re trying to get another person to be an asshole, too.

Completely ignoring someone who’s standing there asking you a question… because you don’t want to be an asshole? Might want to rethink this strategy.

No, I called up Chris Rock for a quip.

Once again I am kicking myself for having missed out on a lucrative career as a con man, as even my most obvious bullshit is taken at face value. :cool:

So you don’t care about the kids with parents. I thought you were that way…

:wink:

That cracked me up, though, when Dseid said it. But by that time, I was scared to laugh, because wasn’t nobody else laughing on that side of the aisle.

I just had to add that I got a giggle out of being on the main page and seeing ‘I’m not giving up my seat, by Nzinga, Seated.’ The ‘Seated’ reads like ‘Ha-ha, suckers.’

I always figure it’s because they personally engage in the bad behaviour people are complaining about. :slight_smile:

That’s interesting. It makes think that your mind ticks in such a way that you only offer a courtesy if it is something you yourself may need, so you assume the same of others.

I like to give dollars to beggars. Does that mean I probably beg for dollars? No. Because my mind doesn’t work that way. I can happily oblige someone on all kinds of things that I may never need or do.

Given that the people were late, and disrupted the experience of all the people that arrived on time, they didn’t deserve any compassion.
If they didn’t want to sit at the front, they should have occupied the individual seats that were available. Watching a movie is an individual experience, so why did they need to sit together anyway?

People that arrive late shouldn’t be allowed in anyway.
People that disrupt the audience and text/ phone/ talk should be evicted without a refund.

They needed to comment on the movie as they watched it, duh! Or maybe they wanted to talk about things completely unrelated to the movie.

I spent a lot of time cutting a hole in the bottom of that popcorn box. So unless you plan on giving me a handjob during the trailers, move your ass over.

My brother is Brad Pitt. Would you say no to him if he asked you two to move over one seat ?

Lynn Bodoni, sitting next to your companion is part of going to a movie. You are trying to enjoy the experience while being close to your loved one. There are many things couples can do while watching a movie such as putting one’s arm around the other, holding hands, leaning, etc. This particular couple didn’t happen to do any of these, however the OP shouldn’t have assumed this from the beginnig.

Very odd way for the mind to think, but we’re dealing with a different breed of animal here, my friend.

O’RLY? So when you go to the movies with your girlfriend, you say to her, “All right, babe, you go sit over there and I’ll catch you when the movie’s over”? Just when I thought you kids couldn’t get any sillier…

Nah, they just texted in unison. :wink:

Again?

I thought you were leaving?

Oh wait, right. You’re the type that says they will do one thing, but in reality does another. Big and bad online.

Next time someone tells me I’m wrong for thinking that the Dope is overpopulated with people who have no social skills, I’m pointing them to this thread.

“If someone asked me a question in a movie theater I would simply refuse to answer.”

“It is my god-given right to sit in any seat I want to and I am not moving no matter what.”

“I don’t understand why people need to sit together with their friends at the movies.”

“I might want to take my shoes off so therefore I can’t move.” (!!!)

Not to mention the whole thing of, “I think one of the parties in this scenario behaved rudely; therefore everything the other person did was 100% justified and okay, because I cannot conceive of a situation in which two or more people could possibly be at fault.”

The SDMB, man. I do love this place, but seriously.

Well, when 95% of members have an IQ over 180…