More entitlement attitude at the movies! Yay!

[chisnpeke]

This reminded me of my friend and her boyfriend being told by the theater staff to give up their seats for a group of teenagers who wanted to sit together. Needless to say they were forced to move. They complained to management afterwards and got their money back and a voucher for a free movie.

 

[Rora]

No,I wouldn't give up my seat. That woman has some nerve!!!

Agreed!

 

[MIGrandma]

Oh.my.gosh. If rudeness was a wedding cake, she would be the topper!

I have never heard of anyone asking people, already seated, to give up their seats for them!! I am just speechless.

No.

I would not give up seats that I chose, if someone asked me to.

I, too, have "a certain seat" that I like to sit in and I make sure I get there plenty early to get it. I like sitting in the very back row, with the wall behind me, second seat in from the aisle. That is "my" seat. However. If I get there and someone is already sitting in it, well....then it is not my seat. Someone else has already claimed it. I choose another one. Which is exactly what that stupid woman and her family should have done.

Wow.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Over my dead body.

 

[3doodlebugsmom]

Over my dead body.

 

[AlleyKat]

Then she gets really whiny and loud. "But my son NEEDS to sit here!"

I'd bet she's one of those people who refuses to move all the way to the end when entering a Disney theater!

 

[Liberty Belle]

If there were other seats acceptable to me and if she would have approached in a different matter, I most likely would have given up my seats for her. Based on the scenario you provided, no I would not. I'd probably tell her where exactly she could go, too.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Oh.my.gosh. If rudeness was a wedding cake, she would be the topper!
I have never heard of anyone asking people, already seated, to give up their seats for them!! I am just speechless.

No.

I would not give up seats that I chose, if someone asked me to.

I, too, have "a certain seat" that I like to sit in and I make sure I get there plenty early to get it. I like sitting in the very back row, with the wall behind me, second seat in from the aisle. That is "my" seat. However. If I get there and someone is already sitting in it, well....then it is not my seat. Someone else has already claimed it. I choose another one. Which is exactly what that stupid woman and her family should have done.

Wow.

Awesome!

 

[hereyago]

I would have told her" Snooze you lose". People have totally lost it these days.

 

[AlleyKat]

People have totally lost it these days.

These days, folks overwhelming sense of entitlement far exceeds common sense and courtesy!

Conscientiousness has been on vacation far too long!

 

[MM27]

Not only would I not have given her the seats, I probably wouldn't have been as nice as you. There was no need to even explain to her why she couldn't have the seats. If someone "needs" a particular seat in a theater, perhaps they should make sure they are there early enough to get the seats.

 

[clh2]

Wow. Just wow.

I would have stood my ground and not moved either. UNLESS I was in a pre-designated handicappped spot and no one in my party was handicapped, but that was not the case here.

 

[allison443]

I can't believe someone did this! And then to go get the manager...

 

[Inigo]

I think I would have offered to sell the chance to sit in those seats---I think $25 a person sounds good.

 

[wdwfan16]

Not just no but hell no.

 

[anniemae]

No way. Once I went to a movie by myself and I wanted to sit on the aisle since I feel claustrophobic in the center seats with people on either side of me. Not sure why, but I do. I like the extra room of an aisle seat also since I have a bad knee and sometimes need to extend my leg when I sit for a long time.

Well, like you, I got there extra early, I mean I was like the third person in the theater. then about two minutes before the movie started a man and his wife came in and asked me to "scoot down" since he needed the aisle seat because of a bad leg. I politely declined and said I needed the aisle since I have a bad knee and arrived 45 minutes early to ensure that I would indeed get an aisle seat. They huffed a little and finally took the non-aisle seats. the were so annoying though because the wife brought a purse-full of peanut brittle with her and crunched and cracked the whole movie.

Now I know why I wait for movies to come to cable!

 

[Tikitoi]

I would not have given the seats, either. Especially if there were no other decent seats available. Like the OP said, if she "needed" those seats, she should get there early. Just shows the lack of shame and manners some people have.

 

[IDoDis]

Did she actually want everyone to get up and move, or just scoot over one seat to make room for her and her son to fit? I could see asking someone to scoot over one and fill up an empty spot, but not demanding you move and she take your seats.

Several years ago when the first Harry Potter movie came out, my family went to see it. There were four of us. The theater was packed. There were three empty seats and then a lady and her husband and then on empty seat after them. I asked the lady politely if they wouldn't mid scooting down one seat to open up the 4 seats so we could all sit together. She was very rude and said "No. We were here first and this is where we're staying." So, DD and I sat in two of the seats and DH and DS had to go sit somewhere else where there were two seats together.

It really bummed me out that the lady could not scoot down one seat to make room. So, asking someone nicely if they could scoot over one seat I have no problem with and would do that any time if someone asked me. Not sure if this was the case with the OP or not.

 

[karen l]

Nope!

And because that type of attitude infuriates me, I wouldn't have even been as diplomatic as you were.

I'm with you!

 

[dismom2]

That woman has a lot of nerve, and what is she teaching her children?