My DH and I are tall and dared to go to the theatre.

[MangoSeason]

I’m 6 ft 1. My DH is 6 ft 4 and very broad. We went to see Hamilton at the Sydney Lyric Theatre yesterday and were subjected to a tirade of passive aggressive invective by the lady sitting behind us, for the whole show. The Lyric Theatre has very roomy seating, but a very low incline. This is beyond our control. We were not trying to thwart the woman! We were very close to the stage and everyone has to look up here anyway. I don’t think she missed as much as she wanted to make everyone around you believe. The lady behind me offered to swap with her but she loudly announced that “she is just as bad”. Sorry for my tall self exiting in your world.

I mean I do get it. It would be frustrating to be seated behind a couple like us. However, I’ve been at shows that I have looked forward to for years and have dealt with unexpected issues- the man with the very loud vocal tics two seats down, the lady who had to go to the toilet 6 times in a show. It is frustrating but I don’t carry on like a pork chop and I certainly don’t direct any invective towards the person for issues beyond their control. I may privately sigh or have a whinge afterwards but that’s it. DH and I can’t shrink!

We are both used to the under breath FFSs when we sit at shows. We really try to avoid sitting in front of people if we can. But at a sold out show with allocated seating, we are not doing it to upset you. We weren’t wearing hats, wearing scarves or big collars or high hair styles. We were simply existing, sitting quietly within our allocated seats. It was a matinee show with dozens of pre-teen kids around us. They would have had the same issue as the woman and none of them were carrying on at all. They were just enthralled, like everyone else.

Fully prepared to be massacred by the shorter people now!

@LST

Say I was with a very short person?

Make them sit on your lap 🤭

@Fembot123 🤣

@MangoSeason

Grumpy tit aside;did you enjoy it?;took my 2 girls to see it in London 2 years ago and it was excellent.

Quite selfish of you to be honest you should of picked end seating. You know your height may obstruct others no different from going to the cinema. I’m know plenty of short people that will pick seating depending on how their sight of the screen will be

@LST my ex was 6ft5 I’m 5ft2. It’s dependant on what the theatre layout looks like in all honesty, the last one we saw was Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. We sat at the back of the stalls so there was no one behind us and I had the aisle seat.

Yanbu. We're tall too. If there's enough leg room we tend to slouch, but that's rarely an option.
I also have no intention of booking back seats or standing at the back, anymore than I expect short people to carry booster seats or stand in the aisle so they can see. Stupid woman probably just couldn't cope with the idea it's one of the few occasions that short people don't have an advantage.

My stand out moment of short entitlement was a couple of people at a gig where a pit is a given that objected to tall people taking their places at the front and demanded that we amongst others stand at the back. And after we all let them filter to the front, after repeatedly telling them what to expect then objected to moshing. Their logic being they couldn't see over tall people moshing and everyone should stand still.

The pork chop comment killed me😂
I’d of gone and got her one of the booster seats they give the kids, ‘here short arse now shut the fuck up’

‘I don’t carry on like a pork chop’ I so wish you would have made this comment directly to her so for not doing that YABU

‘I don’t carry on like a pork chop’ I am going to substitute one of my swear words for this line

YANBU btw.

My very tall husband will happily get things off high shelves in supermarkets for folk.....and also from the bottom of freezers which can also be tricky!

He’s really conscious of his height at concerts - there’s always someone with a smart arsed comment behind us, even though he picks his spot early, doesn’t move, doesn’t even drink too much so he doesn’t have to go to the loo..... but there is always an empty semi-circle that forms behind us, that someone will bounce into just as the music starts and then complain about his height
We stand against walls a lot now, its easier. Solidarity OP.

ahhh - the theatre, I miss theatre

Think she probably had MH issues to carry on like that. Though I do slouch down if i feel I’m obscuring someone’s view!

HeadNorth

At least you noticed - most tall people seem oblivious to their height.

That actually has me laughing out loud. I am 6’4” and have been told several times a day, every single day, since I was about 13, by complete strangers, that I am very tall.

Good God. How dare you be tall in public? As the mother of tall sons, I've heard some of these comments. Elder Spawn is 6'10" tall, and Younger is 6'3" tall (and is nicknamed "Shrimp" or "Runt" by his brother). It isn't as if you were being tall at her, after all!

@Fembot123 “Plenty of people on this thread feel comfortable with calling people short arses and saying they should sit in children’s booster seats” - or likening them to yappy dogs

@Fembot123 or shrimps

Im small but had similar experience at cinema, apparently I have big hair! Who knew 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Tall people can’t help being tall - what are you going to do! Went to a west end show once where I sat behind someone wearing a giant red day at the races style hat, which she refused to remove. My then-boyfriend threatening to frisbee it off the front of the dress circle eventually did the trick!

At exactly 5 feet 0 inches ,I have this "problem" all the time! What to do about it "Suck it up " I say! I mean I can understand if you talked all through the show or something .At a theatre a few years ago ,the lady next to me (also short) said to me when a tall guy sat in front of us (Can you ask him to move his head to one side!) Well er No! Yes it is annoying but not intentional so what can you do?

Short people can’t help being short either, we don’t make a conscious decision to stop growing, and the world can be inconvenient for us in a way it rarely is for tall people. Take hanging straps/rails on crowded public transport for example. They are positively dangerous for short people, since you can’t keep any purchase on the floor when you are holding one assuming you can reach it in the first place.

We have the same problem .I am 5ft 10 , my husband 6ft 2 but has massive shoulders from judo.I find it the worst when going to the old theatres or Opera Houses where the seats are tiny and there is very little leg room to even squash down in the seat.There is very often no ticket choice as we are lucky to even get tickets .It also a problem at stand up concerts .The swearing behind us at times is just awful if we even go anywhere near the front which I can understand because standing behind him is like standing behind a wall because of his huge back and shoulders but we also don't always want to stand way at the back.Not a problem that we are facing much these days anyway

@MangoSeason I’m going to be using that pork chop phrase from now on 😂😂

I've had the problem of being behind a tall person, I just move to look between them, I've even said, sorry but I cant see do you mind moving an inch that way and I will move an inch this way, never been a problem. Get more with sugar than vinegar

@CounsellorTroi

Short people can’t help being short either, we don’t make a conscious decision to stop growing, and the world can be inconvenient for us in a way it rarely is for tall people. Take hanging straps/rails on crowded public transport for example. They are positively dangerous for short people, since you can’t keep any purchase on the floor when you are holding one assuming you can reach it in the first place.

Absolutely! I have an issue with one of my arms as well so holding onto a rail above my head is a total no-go for me unless I want a dislocation. Tall people don’t experience not being able to use the overhead lockers on planes or climbing shelves in supermarkets. I have to use a step stool in my kitchen to be able to open the window (behind the sink) and reach the upper shelves of the wall cabinets 😒

I'm not fussed about the overhead rails the worst thing is my face being at everyone else's armpit level, in hot weather, when they are holding the rails!!