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Which way you turn to leave a cinema/theatre seat…

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Bodyshame1980 · 20/04/2024 22:48

So random and it’s probably a million other things in my mind that this was just bothering.

you get up to go to the loo in the cinema/theatre. Do you face face the people or you face the screen stage so your butt is in their faces?

OP posts:
KezzaMucklowe · 21/04/2024 11:47

I book aisle seats for this exact reason which is exacerbated by my weak bladder.

LlynTegid · 21/04/2024 12:23

I am in an aisle seat most of the time, so does not arise. Part of the reason for an aisle seat if going alone is so that the venue can sell more seats I think, and I want cinemas and theatres to survive.

MereDintofPandiculation · 21/04/2024 12:44

Similar situation but so different - passing in corridor of old fashioned corridor trains - a research report I read some years ago suggested that men faced the people they were passing and women turned their back on them, possibly a "modesty" thing - women protecting themselves against any unwanted touching from males. Similarly any passing in a narrow corridor where both people are standing up.

fromaytobe · 21/04/2024 14:09

RadoxMoon · 20/04/2024 23:47

Well, you know if you’re someone who is likely to need the loo during a performance, surely?

I’ve never needed to go during a theatre production or cinema and never been with anyone who has. So I think it’s quite unusual you can’t last a couple of hours.

And if you're not normally the sort of person who is likely to need the loo during a performance but gets caught short?

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