A store offers a (i-pad, i-phone, hdtv) that you always wanted and a great price. There are on 30 available, to the first 30 customers. You get up in the middle of the night and get in line. You are #9 and sure to get one.
5 minutes before the store opens, 30 young people show up and get in line ahead of you. The young lady there snotily informs you that she saved spots for all her friends.
Would you think this was fair? Would you let them get away with it?
Whats the difference between this and saving seats for friends who want to show up late?
They are both rude, ignorant, insulting, and illegal!
What gives anyone the right or authority to order where people can sit in public seating?
First of all, dell535, welcome to the Dope, and please be aware that you just revived a thread that is more than six years old.
Second, standing in line for something where not everyone may get a chance to participate in whatever the line is for isn’t really functionally equivalent to saving seats for an event where everyone invited will (presumably) be able to sit somewhere.
the problem is, those who save seats, always “save” the best seats. They do this most often when there will be standing room only.
Everyone can find an excuse for their needing to do this, but the simple soution is if you want to sit together, arrive together! I often arrive 2 to 3 hours early, and find every seat “saved” by either one person saving 8 to 10 seats, or blankets placed sometimes days in advance by one person saving for 10 0r 12.
If i get there early, i should have precidence over your friends who want to arrive at the last moment. I have paid for tickets too, and have just as much right and authority to those seats as you do.
I am 75 years old, and often see elderly people not have seats because they have been “saved” for young people and children. Recently, i had a young man (about 20 years old) actually threaten me for sitting in seats he wanted for his friends. Another time when i arrived early,i found all the seats covered with blankets. When the people arrived and found me sitting where their blanket was, they actually went to the ushers and tried to get them to evict me and my wife.
What gives anyone the right to make their own rules then not allow others to also make theirs? My rule is: Any seat not occupied is fair game.
The official rule is: First come, first seated. Anything else is rude, inconsiderate, insulting, selfish, and illegal.
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Preach it brother. I am tempted to print that on a card to hand to the seat savers of the world, so they will understand why I am sitting in a seat even though it was saved. One seat, for your SO who is buying popcorn, is reasonable. Beyond that, no. I do save seats but I’ve been in situations where people insist and I give up all but one (for my wife.) My lazy friends/family should have made the effort to be on time like I did.
Edit: Dang it, bitten by a zombie.
Does that mean you’re going to turn into one?
Let me touch on a slight twist on this situation. My wife and I are both the kind of people who like to be able to get in and out quickly without traipsing over a lot of people and stepping on toes. In order to accomplish this, we often show up very early for an event we know will be crowded so that we can stake out aisle seats. I’m not talking about saving a whole row of seats, I’m talking about 2 bodies in 2 seats.
Then what usually happens is that 5 minutes before starting time, they will announce, “Will everyone please move to the center of the rows, so that those arriving late will be able to be seated?”
Absolutely not! I came here early to get the seats I wanted. I’m not going to give them up to someone who can’t be bothered to show up on time.
Nah, that’s werewolves. Gotta use the powder for zombies.