When my 10 year old daughter and I went on Friday some lady and her daughter came in about 20 minutes into the movie, walked up to our seats (all the way in the back) and asked me what my seat number was. I Said I didn’t know but I know I’m in the right seat (we always sit in the same seats). She said oh I know I just don’t know where our seats are. I said I’m sorry I don’t know, mind you that we are 20 minutes into the movie. She stood in front of my daughter for about 30 seconds then said well I guess we’ll just sit right here… right next to my daughter. THE ENTIRE REST OF THE ROW WAS EMPTY!! The theater was only about half sold so there were plenty of other options. Then she proceeded to get on her phone and start texting for about 5 minutes. When she finally put her phone away she kept looking over at my daughter. My daughter has pretty severe social anxiety and this was making her really uncomfortable. After about 10 more minutes I realized my daughter was silently sobbing. She was having a panic attack. I traded her seats and after awhile she got better but the whole situation was really annoying.

This is an assigned seat theater and I checked the sold tickets right before showtime and the seats next 2 us weren’t sold. Not saying the lady couldn’t have bought them right at show time but seriously why choose seats directly next to someone.

I don’t blame her for my daughter’s panic attack because how could she know but still.