to a bit put out at what the woman said to me at the theatre?

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We've just got back from a dance performance at the Festival Hall.

As everyone was leaving, the woman who had been sitting behind me said "next time you go to the theatre, go and sit at the back".
I was really bemused and she then said "I couldn't see anything because you're too big".
Now I am 6 feet tall and size 14 (and weigh 11 stone 4)
I was absolutely gobsmacked, and said that if she'd tapped me on the shoulder before the performance started, I could have swopped places with dd.
"Well she's big too"
DD at 13 is 5 feet 9 and like a stick of rock.

Now I can't do a lot about my height, and wonder if she would have said that if I was size 20.
DD said on the way home the woman should have sat on one of the booster seats they provide.

Okay, I am tall too so perhaps am somewhat biased. When I take my kids to the theatre, I ensure that I go to theatres where some of the seats are tiered. I select tiered seats so that it doesn't matter if the kids are sat behind adults. Our local theatre does not have a tiered stalls area, so I never book the stalls there.

Do short people not do the same? The chances of sitting behind a person who is 5 foot 9 are quite high.

Along with all the other short-arses who have commented (I am 5' 0"), its a bit unfortunate when a tall person sits in front of you but them's the breaks. I too would sigh inwardly and think of the benefits of being as tall as you, but YANBU, she is a very rude horrid woman who needs to get a grip.

She may have 'lady of a certain age' syndrome in which ladies of a certain age don't seem to be able to control what they say to people and don't really seem to have a censor as to what might be rude. My Mum along with a number of other ladies have this but I can't think any of them would have been so unprovokedly (is that an actual word?) rude.

YANBU. That was very very rude and I would've found it hard to not be even ruder back! And this is coming from a very hormonal (pg) 5'5" woman who was stuck behind the tallest man in the world at a performance of Wicked the other week. I never would've even dreamed of saying anything though. It's not like he grew that tall to piss me off!

That is v rude. Must admit as a short arse I would've prob been thinking those things but certainly not felt justified or reasonable to say them to you :)