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Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:28pm
i had a fun experience at Lennon this Sunday.
i was sitting in row E, seat 2 with my mother next to me in seat 4. we noticed two seats in the third row, centre, remained empty throughout the entire first act so we decided to move into them at intermission.
the man behind me asks if i go to the theatre often, and i say yes. i thought he wanted to strike up conversation, thought maybe he had seen us there before. oh no. he proceeds to ask, "well, do you always cheat and sit in seats that aren't yours?"
needless to say, i'm stunned. my mother and i are avid theatregoers. we know the policies. and we know that empty seats become fair game at intermission. i told him so.
"says who?" he responds. "says the ushers," my mother and i say in unison. "you can go ask them yourself if you don't believe us." he harrumphs and announces, "i think i will."
i'm guessing maybe he was trying to scare us into moving, but we stayed put. those seats were empty. if they were his, then that would have been a different story. but they were not, so essentially it was none of his business.
then when he comes back a woman that was with him says that she complained to the ushers about us, but he grumbled that they were "on our side." he then proceeds to demand that we show him our tickets or move back to where we were, and the woman starts complaining that she paid $100 dollars for her seat and it's not fair that we have moved in front of her. although my seat didn't cost a hundred bucks, i was also in the orchestra, as i told them both. and those two seats were fair game for whoever got to them first once intermission hit. i told them that if they had wanted them, they should have moved into them. i mean, i'm five two, my hair is cut shortshortshort, neither i nor my mother was wearing a hat or headpiece of some sort, and we were in legitimate seats.
"well i hope you're happy that now you're blocking the view of a small child," the man tells me. so i told him that if he was so concerned, he should have moved the child up into the seat.
i mean, this was unbelievable. it's a theatre policy, and while i understand that they may not have been aware of it in order to take advantage themselves, they had no right to insult us and try to threaten us into moving our seats. the "young child" was about six, sharing the seat with someone (i don't even know how they swung that), and constantly bringing up irrelevant topics throughout the second act. if these people were so concerned about other patrons blocking the view, they either should have gotten the child a booster seat or not picked a seat in the middle of the fourth row. not to mention the fact that this was not exactly an age-appropriate show for him.
sorry that was so long, but i just had to rant. rude people just make me nauseous.
any other stories of equally charming people at theatres?
i was sitting in row E, seat 2 with my mother next to me in seat 4. we noticed two seats in the third row, centre, remained empty throughout the entire first act so we decided to move into them at intermission.
the man behind me asks if i go to the theatre often, and i say yes. i thought he wanted to strike up conversation, thought maybe he had seen us there before. oh no. he proceeds to ask, "well, do you always cheat and sit in seats that aren't yours?"
needless to say, i'm stunned. my mother and i are avid theatregoers. we know the policies. and we know that empty seats become fair game at intermission. i told him so.
"says who?" he responds. "says the ushers," my mother and i say in unison. "you can go ask them yourself if you don't believe us." he harrumphs and announces, "i think i will."
i'm guessing maybe he was trying to scare us into moving, but we stayed put. those seats were empty. if they were his, then that would have been a different story. but they were not, so essentially it was none of his business.
then when he comes back a woman that was with him says that she complained to the ushers about us, but he grumbled that they were "on our side." he then proceeds to demand that we show him our tickets or move back to where we were, and the woman starts complaining that she paid $100 dollars for her seat and it's not fair that we have moved in front of her. although my seat didn't cost a hundred bucks, i was also in the orchestra, as i told them both. and those two seats were fair game for whoever got to them first once intermission hit. i told them that if they had wanted them, they should have moved into them. i mean, i'm five two, my hair is cut shortshortshort, neither i nor my mother was wearing a hat or headpiece of some sort, and we were in legitimate seats.
"well i hope you're happy that now you're blocking the view of a small child," the man tells me. so i told him that if he was so concerned, he should have moved the child up into the seat.
i mean, this was unbelievable. it's a theatre policy, and while i understand that they may not have been aware of it in order to take advantage themselves, they had no right to insult us and try to threaten us into moving our seats. the "young child" was about six, sharing the seat with someone (i don't even know how they swung that), and constantly bringing up irrelevant topics throughout the second act. if these people were so concerned about other patrons blocking the view, they either should have gotten the child a booster seat or not picked a seat in the middle of the fourth row. not to mention the fact that this was not exactly an age-appropriate show for him.
sorry that was so long, but i just had to rant. rude people just make me nauseous.
any other stories of equally charming people at theatres?
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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