On holiday in Bulgaria and there's a mixture of nationalities which is making for some interesting interactions (no queuing system for example!). I don't know the nationality of the man involved but he was not British.
Show this evening was magic show which did mean you needed to get a good view of the stage to enjoy the magic. We got our table 2 hours before the show started.
During the show children who were supposed to be sitting on little chairs at the front were standing up. That meant the bigger children behind them stood up and so adults or anyone else couldn't really see. We were the second row of tables back, with 2 rows of kids chairs in front of the tables.
DD8 had a big kid standing up in front of her so she couldn't see. So DH sat her on his knee so she could see better. A few minutes later during the show a 6ft+ man comes and sits in DD8's seat which is directly in front of DH & DD8. DH asks him to move because they can't see. The man shifts the chair but then others behind him couldn't see (when they previously could).
He got cross with DH because DD8 wasn't sitting in her seat so why couldn't he have it. This is despite the fact if he sat there others couldn't see (lots of CF behaviour generally at the hotel which bugs us but generally it's great).
DH now feels a bit silly because the man was right, DD8 wasn't using her seat. But I think he was right to call out CF behaviour of trying to bag a second row seat in the middle of the show. If you want those seats you get there 2 hours early not 20 minutes into the show! (BTW we play card games whilst we wait which we would usually do on our balcony).
In the end I sat in DD's seat as I'm only 5ft 5 and she sat in mine. DH got his knee back. CF got a flea in his ear.
WHBU to stop the man from sitting in a free seat because of the inconvenience it would cause to us and others who had got there earlier? Or should he have let him because the seat wasn't being used.