Sitting in front of people in a cinema

[agedknees]

So had a day off today and so did dd. We decided to go and see Prometheus (sp) because it's orange Wednesday.

Not many people in the cinema. We made our way to a row and sat, making sure we had not sat in front of anyone (cinema was nearly empty, so that was not difficult).

Two large men walked in, took the row in front of us and sat down directly in front of us.

Now fine if the cinema is full, but this one was practically empty.

To me that seems rude, or AIBU? dd and I moved a few seats to the left (making sure we where not obstructing anyones view).

Just to add we are both under 5ft and the two men who sat in front of us looked over 6ft.

It's just like the beach, some people just don't think.

I don't understand how people can be so thoughtless, I think it's rude.

Perhaps it's there favourite seats. I alway sit in the back row in the middle and go into the movie very early to get them :£

That's when you start doing your spluttery cough and exclaim to your friend how doesn't stop you having a good night out even if you have forgotten to take your antibiotics for the last fortnight.

Oh god that always winds me up. It's like when you are in the train and the carriage is empty and someone comes and sits next to you, or your on a treadmill in the gym, the rest are empty, but someone has to come on the one next to you. Aaaahhhhh

Wish I had thought of that Debeez.

or when you park your car miles from anyone in a big empty car park and some bugger will always park right up close so you struggle to open your door when you get back.

Or when your in public loos which are empty except you and the next person in could pick from a whole row but picks the one right next door.

People really are so self absorbed they just dont realise!

Dp and I hardly ever gt to go anywhere without the kids. But a few years ago (When res evil3 was out) we managed to get a babysitter and i was dead excited to be going to see it in 3d (huge zombie fan). Got there early, it was a daytime showing so not many people in. Chose 2 seats at end of a row in the middle, no-one else near us. When this big smelly man comes in and sits right.next.to.me!! It totally ruined the film for me as i had to keep turned to dp so the smell wasn't as bad, so was uncomfy. He came in quite late so felt we didnt have time to move seats (plus i thought he might think us rude (even though he was) It wasn't until quite a while later that i realised that maybe we had sat in his booked seats (but why didnt he say?) but as we didnt go often we didnt know you could book particular seats.

The cinema I go to has allocated seats and if you sit in the wrong ones you are likely to have to move when the people allocated those seats arrive, so you have no choice but to sit where you are told.

I remember some years ago reading about an assertiveness class where one of the tasks given to those of the shrinking violet persuasion was to go into a sparsely populated cinema and sit directly in front of other audience members.

The repercussions in our local Cineworld would be such that the violets would shrink to near-invisibility, and would certainly never visit a cinema again.

I think the story must have been apocryphal, but I've heard dafter ideas.

The surefire way to guarantee this never happens again, is to do what I do and take your shoes off and prop your feet up on the seat in front.

Thepeoplesprincess - that is priceless. My feet would certainly empty a cinema.

It's hardly like it made you unable to see. They wanted the seats below, you don't monopolise all the below seats just because there's very few people in.

YABU.

YADNBU. I took my three charges to see Pirates at the end of May. Sat in the back row, right next to the door in case I had to rush out with them. Apart from us there were two pairs of people nearer the front. Two women sat down in the two seats in front of my three

Considering I thought it'd be a disaster, the kids were really well behaved, barely any talking, laughed/giggled quite quietly for kids and happily sat through the entire film with no silliness (they are not like that normally ). The two women in front tutted very loudly when the kids giggled at the slightest thing. The only time the kids actually said anything was to ask why the two women were tutting. It was stupid and I ended up snapping at them that their tutting was ruining the children's experience at a child's film. They shut up after that

But out of an empty cinema, with seats that had much better views as we were in the back right corner of the cinema, they chose to sit in front of three children! WHY?!

Tiredness - we did move (have written that in my op).

Must admit, I've done that before and the guy behind us huffed and moved. I did it because I sat in the seat I chose when I bought my ticket. I can see both points of view really.

You get allocated a seat when you book. Well every cinema Iv been to

Went this eve, sat In our seats, Othes obv hadn't so when people came for their seats there was a lot of faffing around and moving

How come everyone agrees this is not on but on another thread posted tonight a poster was going on about the same thing(invading of personal space) ie walking right behind you for no reason, sitting next to you on an empty bus/train but they got slated for it??

My sis has a specific seat at the cinema & if she doesnt get it god help the person sitting in it.

@forevergreek at our local cinema we dont get allocated seats & we dont have to book tickets either. Its first come first served & sit wherever you want.

I was just going to post that, WildWorld! All these reasonable people in here and everyone slagging off the OP in the other thread!

I'm rather tall so I tend to think about where I sit. Once I did deliberately sit in front of someone though...

It was when they stopped allocating seats in our local cinema but hadn't updated the printing software so it still printed a number on. My X (who's taller than me) and I went to where we'd normally sit (we used to request seats near the back so as not to block anyone) and a lady came with her daughter (a child) and told us to move we were in their seats. We argued that seats aren't allocated anymore and we sat there because we didn't want to be in anyone's way. She got angry so we moved. To the seat in front of them.

Doom

They were rude. I don't understand why people do it? How can they be so ignorant?

But please don't sit in front of me - I'm a midget.