Annoying people in cinema...

[sophisticatedsarcasm]

Took my dc and my sister to the cinema to see Christopher Robin today, due to issues with my legs I have to sit on an end, we found a row that was empty and sat at the end. About 5 minutes into the movie a women comes in with her son, he starts trying to push past me so I had to quickly move my stuff before he stood on it. Instead of stopping him she just let him go herself pushing past me and she was a big women, they are lucky they didn’t get kicked whilst walking as my son has ASD and doesn’t like strangers in a close proximity. She says to me as she’s passing ‘ sorry but there will be more of us in a minute,
I replied that then they can use the bloody aisle behind where no one was sitting. She just tooted and carried on by. The worst bit was if they had just gone down the path behind they would have got to the other end easier.
So she not only pissed me off with her inconsiderate passing by she disrupted the movie..
rant over....
was I being unreasonable to say to her about the path behind.

Sounds a bit annoying but YABU to still be fuming about it hours later. Life's too short.

Did you mean they have to walk down a whole row of seats horizontally to then go down a a row to your row? If so that’s ABU. If you sit in the aisle you need to tolerate that other people will need to get past multiple times, I always choose aisle but will happily move. That being said she should have apologised and waited for you to let them past.

People always want to sit near other people in the cinema IME. It's almost herd mentality. The same as car parks.

YANBU.

It is a pity that the rule of no latecomers at theatres cannot extend to cinemas.

No she could have gone down the path behind us and entered our row from the other side as no one else was sitting there. But because her son wanted to go that way she just let him. Obviously I know I would have needed to move had there been no other option, or she had at least controlled her son enough to give me some warning so my DS was aware too.

YANBU. If you must arrive late you can at least be apologetic and cause as little disruption as possible.

I'd have tripped them both up for their rudeness.