Aibu or is this very bad (not to mention creepy) cinema etiquette?

[GeraldineAubergine]

I went to watch twilight this afternoon as everyone at my house was too hungover to accompany me. Anyway when I got there the cinema was almost empty so I sat in an aisle seat and settled down for the film. An older couple came in and sat directly behind me, which was weird anyway as the cinema was empty but then the man hung his coat on my chair, so I couldn't lean my head back because it would have been resting on his frankly stinky coat. I glared at him but he didn't move it so I moved seats, to about three down.
So I am in a different seat in the still empty ish cinema and creepy coat couple got up and moved to the seat behind me again and put the coat there. Again. So I completely moved rows and they stayed where they where. He also kept making loud hawking sounds. Aibu to feel a) very irritated and b) creeped out? I don't think so but I kind of wish I said something.

YANBU. That is weird. Moving seats when you did is quite weird - hanging his coat on your seat is v weird! I think you were quite brave to stay in a cinema on your own with them!

I meant them moving seats after you did is weird - not that it's weird that you moved seats!

thank godhe wasnt alone
grim
and why wasnt thecinema morepopular

Yes. Them moving seats to follow you was weird.

Were they after your bag or something, do you think?

Re sitting behind you in the first place - people are like sheep, I find. They do that. I don't think they even think about it.

Well I was ridiculously early, so luckily the cinema did fill up more. A girl sat in the seat near him and then her boyfriend came and asked if he would move his coat which he did but with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp. Isn't it normal to keep your coat on your own seat?

Ew. YANBU. Mega-creepy. Did you notice whether they, um, actually watched the movie or were they engaged in other activities? Maybe they were hoping you'd join them; the coat on the chair was an invitation...

Well, if there's plenty of room, I'll put my coat on the seat next to me. But, yes, that was creepy.

And it was empty because Twilight is shit.

Weird and quite intimidating.

Unless it was a scary film and they were trying to hide behind you

Oh god I didn't even think of that. If I were his wife I would have told him not to hang his coat on an unaccompanied ladies seat. I am blaming him rather than her.

Very creepy!! Did you check they weren't following you when you left and went to go home?

I'm sure they didn't follow me as I waited till they had gone before I left. I feel a bit weirded out by the whole thing. It's strange how a quite small thing can be so intimidating.

Maybe they were hoping you'd join them; the coat on the chair was an invitation...

Wtf?! . Do things like that happen?

You should have sat right at the back.

I would have gone to sit behind them and then flicked popcorn at them

Did he have a large bucket of popcorn?
Did his wife/girlfriend/hooker dip her hand in there a lot?
Is it possible there was a penis sized hole in the bottom of the bucket?

My friend had a guy wanking behind her in the cinema. It was in arty cinema, film had subtitles and everything. Vile.

deffo weird.

but there are A LOT of weird people out there. Especiallly watching twillight

Very creepy and very weird.

I had a teenage girl kicking my seat every two minutes all the way through, last time we went to the cinema...I even asked her to stop it after several pointed looks failed, but she carried on anyway.

I was about ready to punch someone by the end.

Why were they even at twilight? I can be forgiven as I am pregnant and have poor taste and judgement generally anyway. They didn't look like twihards. I don't like the idea of furtive cinema wanking. They put me off my fizzy cola bottles.

they were there to hook up with other weirdos. Dur.

We went to see a scary film once (I think it was Exorcist III) and there was a guy sat on his own in the middle of a row.

Nothing wrong with that - except he kept letting out a manic laugh at really scary scenes.

If I had been on my own - I'd have run out.

Do you think they wanted to hook with me? This has added a whole new creepy dimension. Am I very naive? Do people really do this sort of thing? At a Saturday matinee of a sparkly vampire film?

They deffo wanted to hook with you. And not in a crochet way.

I don't want to hook with a smelly coated, phlegmy wrinkled couple who may or may not have been wanking in a cinema. I feel like I'm better than that.

i think i would have asked him why he was following me, or mentioned it to staff. Its not bad etiquette. Its harrassment