If you are not frequent airplane traveller and someone asks you to switch your window seat for their kid what would you do/say?
Got on a flight that was like 10 hours and a guy was sitting in my aisle seat. Told him he was in my seat. He said I could sit in his. His was the middle seat in the middle bank of five seats. Said no, I want my seat thanks. He said no, the other seat was better and I would like it better there. I said if it was better he shouldn’t mind sitting in it. Took about five minutes of conversation to get him to move. I assume these folks are just counting on people not wanting to make a fuss but seriously?
how insanely entitled do you have to be to take someone else's seat and then argue about it...
Something similar happened to me in a movie theater.
We had bought our tickets weeks ahead of time. I was really excited for this movie so I was even checking periodically to see how much the seats were filling up as we got closer to the event date. Turns out, not a whole lot. The theater only had a few clusters of seats that had been booked.
Up until the day of the show the two of us still had four rows of empty seats surrounding us. The day of the show, two people had bought the tickets right next to our seats. They didn't even do the courtesy of a buffer seat despite so many empty seats being available.
They would have had to see that our seats were taken when they booked their tickets.
AND YET when we came in, they were sitting in our seats and also had their purses and jackets and theater snacks spread out on either side of them.
I told them they were in our seats, and they seemed really surprised that I even said anything to them, and made a huge show about having to move all of their stuff and oh no how difficult it was because clearly they were already settled.
I had to sit right next to one of the women for the entire show.
It was annoying.
This story has no point.
It was around Valentines Day 2022, and we went to go see Marry Me. It was a weekday matinee, plus people were still avoiding theaters because of Covid.
We booked it a few days ahead of time just in case, but we were literally the only people there. At least, that's what we thought.
Towards the end of the previews, this other couple comes in and sits right beside us. I checked the website, and sure enough, they had chosen those seats. They had almost the entire theater to choose from and decided to sit right next to us.
Probably because those seats were the best available seats.
When I'm picking movie theater seats, I will look at the row which is 2-3 rows from the end, and I will pick the seats exactly in the middle of that row (same distance from left and right wall). If those seats are taken, I will maybe look for the same seats in the row front or behind. But if those seats are taken as well, I will take the next available seats closest to the middle left or right of the taken seats, so right next to the seats that are already taken. Even if the rest of the row is completely empty.
I would've gotten up and moved away while asking my partner why people are like that, passive aggressive but I wouldn't be able to help myself
That's what they're hoping for; that you'll just give up and walk away, and they are left with the good seats. They don't care about a passive aggressive comment
From my thinking, the other option would be yo confront them, there's an argument/ confrontation. Nothing changes expect now they may verbally harass throughout the movie. In version A, it's over in a minute or 5 if I can let it go. In version B it lasts for hours. I don't see the ushers giving a fuck where I'm at to intercede.