To not want someone sitting right beside me in a practically empty cinema

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I was at the cinema last night and there was only a scattering of people around. A couple came in, sat right beside me so I had to move my coat, and asked me to move my arm so they could put their drink in the holder.
Why do idiots do this kind of thing and AIBU to find it really irritating?

trouble is in fairness it's not till all the trailers are done and your 20 mins into the film.that you can be entirely sure no one else is coming.

cos despite weeks.of advertising and choosing the screenings to attend, making the right time is still impossible

I just move when this happens. move seats, move table, hell, I move my car to the other end of the car park!

it's funny because they then get weird with you as though you moving is a rejection of them or something.

freaks.

Lweji "Was it Sheldon and Amy and it was "their spot"?"

This thread reminded me of when Sheldon went to the cinema and sat in various seats, testing the acoustics. Maybe this couple had previously done that and those two seats were in the perfect spot.

I would've moved. Not that I ever go to the cinema. I can't stand there being any other people there at all, because I get so wound up by every noise that I end up not being able to concentrate on the film. I might be a bit bonkers though.

Slightly different but I remember going to a concert in a stadium a couple of years ago. We got there quite early as I was pregnant and didn't fancy pushing through lots of people. We grabbed food and went to sit in our seats to eat it.

The stadium must have held about 60,000 people but the only people I could see sitting down were in the seats next to ours. I couldn't face sitting right next to them in this huge empty stadium so we sat a few seats away thinking we'd move to the right seats as it got busier.

Not long after, the people who had the seats we were temporarily in turned up and looked proper furious we were in their seats. We sheepishly moved pronto as it was to difficult to explain why we weren't in our own seats.

Going to the movies is annoying in so many ways, I wonder why anyone still goes.

God I hate that, as others have said, it's just weird. I would have moved. Last year on holiday with another couple in the Austrian alps, we sat down on some rocks half way up the mountain to eat lunch. Literally the middle of nowhere. Except it wasn't. Other couple come along and sit down within touching distance of us. Didn't acknowledge us in any way, which is unusual in itself in the mountains, and proceeded to eat their own lunch as if we weren't there . We were all like .