Yesterday I took dc 11,9,4 to kids am cinema. It's 1.75 to see a film on weekend mornings, so it's a really good offer. We got there at 10.30 (film scheduled start time) and were told it was full. So I bought tickets for this am instead, but the assistant advised me to still come early as the film was v popular and seats aren't allocated on kids am tickets, and if we left it too late we'd not get seats together. So we got there early. However, the cinema was packed, but we found some seats together. When we got there we struggled past a family of 5 (me carrying 9yo ds as he uses a wheelchair but hates craning his neck on the front row) to THEN be told by the mother that we couldn't sit there (5 spare seats) as she was saving them for her friend as they wanted to sit together, but helpfully pointed out two seats at the other end of the row. WIBU to have taken those seats? She seemed to think so, she had a tantrum and said (v P.A. to her children) that I was up my own arse. I told her not to speak like that in front of my children, and suggested she got the manager if she thought I shouldn't sit there. WHATEVER, she said. Her friend arrived 15mins after scheduled start time and was a lot more calm and reasonable.
It's thanks to mumsnet I decided to stand my ground, so if IWBU it's all your fault anyway! 