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AIBU?

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Cinema and covid

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Rizzoli123 · 18/10/2021 12:42

I took my boys 4 and 6 to cinema today as its a first day of school holiday treat.

Me and my husband and children sat in the seats we had picked. Two teenagers came in just after we did and in an empty cinema sat next to us.

We ended up moving in the end but am I being unreasonable to say that it wasn't our place to move and we were here first.

I understand that taking kids to cinema is a luxury

AIbu rhag the kids should of respected rules saw we were sat here.and moved instead of us.

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drainsdrains · 18/10/2021 16:27

Sorry OP, you're being very unreasonable. They have every right to sit in their booked seats, same as you. You chose to move as YOU were uncomfortable. Your choice.

NigelSlatersXmasTaters · 18/10/2021 16:29

"I didnt ask you to move I asked you to use your common sense."

Common sense tells me that it's easier if everyone just sits in their allocated seat. Particularly if they have chosen that seat as it suits them best.

DroopyClematis · 18/10/2021 16:29

@yesterdayisinthepast
If OP is that concerned then cinema staff might be better placed to answer her aibu rather than MNetters.

TurnUpTurnip · 18/10/2021 16:31

I hate when people do this even without Covid I mean just why! Even if they were the “best seats” surely any seat that is not right next to someone would be better!

PinkWaferBiscuit · 18/10/2021 16:35

This thread is batshit.

You're literally frothing at them doing exactly the same thing you did. How the fuck can they be unreasonable for sitting in their allocated seats and not moving when that's exactly what you did?

By your own admission you too were unreasonable not to move when you saw the cinema was empty.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 18/10/2021 16:35

@TurnUpTurnip

I hate when people do this even without Covid I mean just why! Even if they were the “best seats” surely any seat that is not right next to someone would be better!

So you move. Like the op. If seats are booked those are the ones that get sat in.

WhereYouLeftIt · 18/10/2021 16:36

I went to the cinema a week ago, when I booked our seats they were in the middle of a row that I think has the best view of the screen. No other seats were booked at that point. When we turned up, more people had booked tickets. It's a large cinema and all the people in it were still less than 10% of its capacity. But - we were all sitting fairly near each other.

Probably because we all like to sit where we think we get the best view, which is in the middle of the rows. Some people like to be nearer the front, some like to be nearer the back, but we all seemed to like being in the middle.

So no, I don't think it's odd in any way that these teens had chosen the seats next to you.

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 18/10/2021 16:36

I would've moved because I have no issues around that (some people do) and there are much better seats than front row(ofc I wouldn't have booked front row because of that to begin with).

However, it's ridiculous and entitled to expect them to because of "reasons". They booked those seats and wanted those seats so that's where they sat. They did nothing wrong, and it's nothing to do with common curtesy . It's you who was bothered and had a problem with it and eventually moved. It's that simple. They were obviously fine where they were, in the seats they booked and paid for.

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Rizzoli123 · 18/10/2021 16:38

@PinkWaferBiscuit

This thread is batshit.

You're literally frothing at them doing exactly the same thing you did. How the fuck can they be unreasonable for sitting in their allocated seats and not moving when that's exactly what you did?

By your own admission you too were unreasonable not to move when you saw the cinema was empty.

I did move along with 2 children, 4 coats, one set of reins and 3 bags.

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DampSquidGames · 18/10/2021 16:39

Was the film good?

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 18/10/2021 16:39

@Rizzoli123 why does it matter how many people and stuff you had to move. It's not the teenagers fault you moved. It was your own?

girlmom21 · 18/10/2021 16:40

I did move along with 2 children, 4 coats, one set of reins and 3 bags.

oh Jesus, could you get any more dramatic?

PinkWaferBiscuit · 18/10/2021 16:42

I did move along with 2 children, 4 coats, one set of reins and 3 bags.

Yes but you didn't think you should have to because they were the seats you had chosen which is exactly what these teens also thought but it apparently makes them unreasonable but it doesn't make you unreasonable?

Also you're really over exaggeratinh just how much effort it was for you to move. You had 2 children old enough to xlcary their own stuff and 2 adults it was hardly a mammoth task.

girlmom21 · 18/10/2021 16:44

Do you really use reins on a 4 year d, btw?

girlmom21 · 18/10/2021 16:45

*4 year old

TenThousandSpoons · 18/10/2021 16:46

YABU for booking the front row

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 18/10/2021 16:52

I did move along with 2 children, 4 coats, one set of reins and 3 bags.

Were you barefoot in the snow too?

Conair · 18/10/2021 16:52

I wouldn't have moved either( If I was the teens) it was the seats they wanted and chose.. also I have seen people sit in other people's allocated seats and being asked to move and it's embarrassing, even if cinema was empty you could guarantee you would chose an allocated seat of someone arriving later.
I think you sounds quite entitled op!

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Rizzoli123 · 18/10/2021 16:54

Does it matter

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yesterdayisinthepast · 18/10/2021 17:03

@DroopyClematis and what exactly are they meant to advise her lol. I'm sure the OP probably saw it as annoying but no need to go contacting the manager. Especially as nothing was sad at the time

DroopyClematis · 18/10/2021 17:07

Maybe advise her on how seats are allocated?

I visit the cinema often and , particularly in these times, I’m often perplexed as to why so many folk are grouped together in an otherwise empty cinema.
I’m just offering a suggestion. That’s all.

LadyMuckington · 18/10/2021 17:11

If they were their seats why should they have to move? You were the one unhappy about it so you should have moved. Clearly they didn’t mind because they wouldn’t have sat there.

I go to the cinema all the time. I used to work there for years when I was at uni so I have my favourite seats (screen dependant) that I always sit in. If someone is sat next to me then they can move because I don’t.

DroopyClematis · 18/10/2021 17:12

Sorry my last post was for @yesterdayisinthepast

limitedperiodonly · 18/10/2021 17:23

YABU. There are no space restrictions at my local cinema and those people had booked their seats just like you.

But that's not why I posted. I want to say I got the best seat in the house when I went to see the Bond film and nearly two weeks later it still feels like I am winning at life.

It's seat 7 in Row C of Screen 3. There are only three rows and it seats about 60 people. Row C is the last one at the back and seat 7 is directly in front of the aisle so has an uninterrupted view with no bloody fidgeters in front.

I booked DH the inferior seat 8 but he didn't complain even though he knew my little plan. I've made a study of this and done it before. He never mentions it. It's the little things that keep our marriage alive.

Anonymous48 · 18/10/2021 17:31

@Rizzoli123

Does it matter

Does what matter? You're the one who posted in the first place.

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