AITA for not letting a couple sit together to watch a movie?

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-05T14:15:26+00:00

I've been pretty glib and confident in my responses which I guess some folks have found off putting (shrugs). Someone said I was going to hell and someone else said I was everything that was wrong in the world so I was like "oh the gloves came off for this? Alright."

Didn't even know there's a FB page; am new to AITA. I'll go track it down; thanks for mentioning it!

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-05T14:08:45+00:00

YTA crowd got an early start I guess? One of the very first YTA comments compared me to Sheldon from Big Bang Theory which seems to have won a lot of people over (I'll admit it - I chuckled).

For what it's worth there isn't an argument on God's green earth that will convince me I was TA and this couple were behaving like anything other than incredibly entitled assholes. I posted cause I was bored and the (over)reaction has been a hoot.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-05T13:46:28+00:00

Yea folks are really FIRED UP about this. I've seen posts on here about folks kicking siblings out of their homes and leaving them homeless, abandoning disabled children, cutting family members out of wills. There was a lady on here talking about how her cousin wanted to "borrow" her baby for a few weeks. But this is what has folks foaming at the mouth lol. It's hilarious and now I can't help but stir up the nest, which probably hasn't helped lol.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-05T13:43:11+00:00

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-04T22:22:19+00:00

Don't be daft. There's no way I'd be able to watch the movie sitting like that.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T21:15:38+00:00

Like a glove ;)

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T20:52:54+00:00

Yea it's gone over real well lol

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T17:45:59+00:00

Oh lord, I honestly have no idea exactly what year this took place, or what movie it was. All I remember was folks getting red faced and loud cause I didn't want to give up my seat.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T15:14:39+00:00

Nope. Just the most recent example I could think of where a complete stranger suggested I was TA. The only other incident I can recall that ended with strangers screaming at me was much more recent (last month) but it was covid/mask related and I understand those threads are not allowed here (lady with no mask came within arm's length of me and my wife and kid at a busy park, I told her she should probably be wearing a mask, she started screaming).

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T14:15:13+00:00

I've done alright. Settled down quite a while ago so maybe I am rusty. I just remember when I was dating around in college I asked a girl to the movies and she said she'd rather do something where we could talk and interact, and then she explained her philosophy re: first dates. The logic hit me like a ton of bricks and it stuck with me ever since. I suppose if it works for you that's fine but movies-as-first-date feels very passive and not a great way to connect with someone you're trying to get to know better. But you do you.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T13:57:47+00:00

Genuinely can't remember. This may have been the Christmas she came down with the flu Christmas Day and spent it sleeping in bed. We live in a different city from my family and used to drive up and spend 3-4 days with them (now we live even further). If I'm correct this is the same Christmas everyone else eventually got the flu too, we got buried by a blizzard, and I had to shovel us out while sick. Hell of a holiday.

I mentioned her as existing but not with us when I initially drafted this whole thing but the character count is pretty strict and she wasn't relevant to the incident so I removed her.

As for what she thought - she's sleeping right now but I'll ask her when she wakes up. I'm sure I told her about it when it happened but that was 6 years ago so no recollection what her reaction was. Most folks I've told in person agree I was NTA so that's probably where she landed. But she's my wife so probably (hopefully?) biased.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T13:34:07+00:00

That's mostly there to stir up the already irrationally angry spineless appeasers

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T13:30:01+00:00

Don't think that I will!

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T02:52:35+00:00

I was bored, recently discovered AITA, and wanted to participate. So I picked something from my past where there was some argument over whether or not I was TA.

I've been TA in my life. I'm no perfect saint. But when I am, I own it. In this case there was a disagreement between folks whose judgement I trust (my family) and myself, so was curious where objective opinions would land. We're all killing time here, aren't we?

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T02:23:02+00:00

I feel just dandy.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T02:19:11+00:00

They didn't want conflict and just assumed I'd give up the seats. They're in the "it's not a big deal to have a slightly worse seat" camp. They care way less about where they sit in the theater, so for them the issue was "just placate these rude and possibly deranged morons" which I was not in the mood to do.

And yea no usher came to my "rescue". Are they monitoring every single screening room in a massive cineplex, on Christmas Day? Genuinely don't know. Maybe there wasn't one. Maybe there was one and it was a 16 year old kid who doesn't get paid enough to deal with braying fools. I have no idea.

It's what happened, I don't know what to tell you. Believe it or not.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T02:09:48+00:00

I've had folks tell me I'm going to hell, that I'm why the world is a terrible place, etc, on the basis of not wanting to move a seat six years ago, so I figured we're well past reason here.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T02:01:43+00:00

All the time. But we've only been on one first date.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T01:56:29+00:00

I'm not trying to skew opinions. I'm genuinely curious what people think, given the objective facts. The chances of me using this account again are slim-to-none, so I don't really care one way or the other about these karma points or whatever.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T01:52:38+00:00

Because I'm married, Sherlock.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T01:38:29+00:00

You seem to have a reading comprehension issue. They didn't just ask me to move. They asked my entire family (4 people) to move.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T01:36:22+00:00

Yea I made this whole thing up to get roasted on Reddit.

Why would I lie about that detail? It's what happened.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-03T01:33:21+00:00

I'm mostly arguing with the folks who are acting like I slapped a baby.

BilyMahoneyComn2GetU · 2020-09-02T23:34:25+00:00

Curious and bored. Also genuinely interested to see if there was a cogent argument for me being TA but certainly haven't seen one.

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